Idaho National Laboratory Environmental Monitoring Plan

The CITRC has a number of specific test beds (12 buildings, approx 71,600 ft 2 ):
Range Support Area, which consists of office structures, training facility, area power substation, and
area water supply system
National Contraband Detection and Testing Center
Incident Response Training and Testing Center, Range Control Center facility, and an office building
housing the range director’s office with other test bed facilities
Special Programs test facility.
The Specific Manufacturing Capability (SMC) facility, located at Test Area North (TAN) houses a
unique project that began with a Memorandum of Understanding between DOE and the U.S. Army in
February 1985. Operated by the INL contractor, the SMC Project manufactures armor for the army’s
M1A2 Abrams battle tank.
1.3.2 Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) Contractor Facilities
Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC) was established in the 1950s to recover
usable uranium in spent nuclear fuel from government reactors and to store spent nuclear fuel. The
current work scope at INTEC includes removing excess nuclear material, closing radioactive and
hazardous waste tanks, treating liquid radioactive waste at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit and
shipping it off-Site, transferring spent nuclear fuel from wet to dry storage, remediating the spent nuclear
fuel basin, treating and disposing of waste, closing liquid waste tanks, remediating contaminated
environmental sites, and demolishing facilities.
Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC) managed, stored, and disposed of radioactive
waste. Currently, RWMC manages solid transuranic and low-level radioactive waste. RWMC is removing
and disposing of targeted waste from the Subsurface Disposal Area, remediating the Subsurface Disposal
Area, disposing of transuranic waste at an off-Site facility, and demolishing facilities.
TAN, which is located at the north end of the Site, was built in the 1950s to house the nuclearpowered
airplane project. TAN facilities personnel are now closing hazardous waste tank systems,
remediating contaminated environmental sites, and demolishing facilities.
The Power Burst Facility (PBF) portion of the CITRC facilities consists of the reactor area and a
small portion of the control area. The initial mission for PBF was testing water reactor fuel rods under
representative accident conditions. Data from these tests were used to develop and validate fuel behavior
computer code for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. These tests were completed in 1985. Currently,
ICP personnel are dispositioning the decommissioned PBF reactor, and demolishing facilities to
completely eliminate the PBF footprint.
1.3.3 Naval Reactors Facility (NRF)
The NRF, operated by Bechtel Bettis, Inc., is specifically excluded from detailed discussion in this
monitoring plan. As established in Executive Order 12344, 3 the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program is
exempt from the requirements of DOE Orders 450.1 (Reference 1), 5400.5, “Radiation Protection of the
Public and the Environment,” 4 and 414.1C, “Quality Assurance.” 5 The director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Program, establishes reporting requirements and methods implemented within the program, including
those necessary to comply with appropriate environmental laws. NRF’s program is documented in the
Naval Reactors Facility Environmental Monitoring Program. 6
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