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

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Weapons Dismantlement and Disposition 95,786 58,025 56,770
Weapons Dismantlement and Disposition (WDD) is a critical element of NNSA’s integrated
effort to transform the enterprise and the stockpile. The WDD program element includes
activities that enable or perform tasks to reduce the quantity of retired weapons or retired
weapons components, including temporary staging, surveillance, complete disposition of retired
weapons and weapons components, and the international commitment to disposition special
nuclear material declared as excess to national security needs. Specific activities include
weapons dismantlement, characterization of components to identify both hazards and
classification issues, disposition of retired warhead system components, and surveillance of
selected components from retired warheads. Other supporting activities specific to retired
warheads include: conducting hazard assessments; issuing safety analysis reports; conducting
laboratory and production plant safety studies; procuring shipping and storage equipment;
declassification and sanitization of component parts; and supporting the Tri-laboratory office
efforts on dismantlement activities. In addition, WDD relies on, enabling programs to complete
its mission, including: Production Support for shipping, receiving, and equipment maintenance,
RTBF for infrastructure sustainment and containers, and Secure Transportation Assets for
movement of weapons and weapons components. The WDD program element will maintain
associated component disposition, and when the scope exceeds the base capability provided by
RTBF, support the recycling, recovery and storage of nuclear material.
The FY 2012 mission scope includes: NNSA’s commitment to complete the dismantlement of
all warheads retired as of FY 2009 by FY 2022. Pantex and Y-12 will continue to maintain
through-put via efficiencies and the flexibility to use multi-shift operations when possible. The
production sites will continue scheduled dismantlement operations of some of the more
challenging stockpile systems which may result in a decreased number of dismantlements but a
consistent level of effort due to the difficulty factor associated with the scheduled systems.
These challenges present themselves in both the physical size of the weapons as well as the
hazardous materials present and complexity of design. In accordance with current workload,
Pantex will complete B53 dismantlements and initiate increased throughput of B83
dismantlement operations; Y-12 will nearly complete concurrent B53 canned subassembly
dismantlements and ramp up to full scale B83 canned subassembly dismantlement activities.
Investments in the W71 process and tooling will continue to ensure dismantlements prior to
occupation of the Uranium Processing Facility at Y-12.
Stockpile Services 851,414 941,525 928,589
Stockpile Services provides the foundation for the research, development, and production
capability and capacity within the nuclear security enterprise to meet DoD requirements. All
enduring systems, LEPs, and dismantlements rely on Stockpile Services to provide the base
development, production and logistics capability needed to integrate weapon delivery to the
Weapons Activities/
Directed Stockpile Work Page 71
FY 2012 Congressional Budget