Department of Energy FY 2012 Congressional ... - The FIRE Place

Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Campaign
In FY 2012, the national ASC Campaign at LANL will focus on three major areas:
• maintain computational science tools for annual assessments, LEPs and SFIs;
• protect the investment in science-based simulation capabilities; and
• maintain the Cielo-based national user facility that provides a reliable and responsive computing
resource to the laboratory complex.
As part of operations at the Nicholas C. Metropolis Center for Modeling and Simulation, the ASC
Campaign at LANL will continue maintenance of Roadrunner, operate computing scalable units in
support of weapons certification and assessment, and deploy a new capability-class computing platform.
An area of development is integrated code development where LANL will continue to move
computational science capabilities onto the Roadrunner platform. This process allows the weapons
program to take advantage of the advanced hybrid architecture by applying this leading edge technology
to issues of national security.
Readiness in Technical Base and Facilities (RTBF)
The RTBF program supports a broad base of activities and facilities that enable the laboratory to meet
its mission obligations to the NNSA and the nation. At LANL, Defense Programs (DP) direct-funded
facilities include facilities supporting weapons engineering, tritium, weapons physics (DARHT, etc.),
accelerator work at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), waste management, nuclear
materials research and manufacturing (Plutonium Facility (PF-4) and Chemistry and Metallurgical
Research (CMR)), beryllium technology, and machining and fabrication shops. Mission capable work
scope includes facility management, infrastructure support, operation and maintenance of real property
and special equipment, and compliance with security, environmental, safety and health requirements. In
addition, RTBF supports solid waste risk reduction activities (including the processing of stored new
generation transuranic (TRU) waste at Area G in support of a Consent Order issued by the New Mexico
Environmental Department)
The RTBF activity also includes infrastructure support: specific project activities to support
consolidation and footprint reduction and out-year risk and/or cost redirection strategies, Line Item
Other Project Costs (OPCs), general plant projects construction, seismic studies, authorization basis,
beryllium rule, and program management. Starting in FY 2012, other project costs (OPC) for the
Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) project show under the line item
construction project. Funding is also included for the Payment-in-Lieu-of-Taxes for Los Alamos
County in the Los Alamos Pueblo project.
The RTBF also funds activities associated with nuclear materials recycle and recovery program. The
LANL support within this program activity is central to the material consolidation activities across the
Enterprise.
RTBF Construction
There are a number of line item projects in RTBF at LANL, which are based on a key element of longrange
planning, specifically, the Integrated Nuclear Planning (INP). The INP project is a high-level
effort to plan the future nuclear facilities within TA-55. The INP presently includes the integration of
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FY 2012 Congressional Budget