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Waste Management’s Role in Safely Consolidating, Accelerating, and Delivering the Idaho Cleanup Project Core Mission. Bruno Zovi, AMWTP LLW/MLLW Program Manager. Fluor Idaho Team. Assumed ICP Core contract on June 1, 2016
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Waste Management’s Role in Safely Consolidating, Accelerating, and Delivering the Idaho Cleanup Project Core Mission Bruno Zovi, AMWTP LLW/MLLW Program Manager
Fluor Idaho Team • Assumed ICP Core contract on June 1, 2016 • Quick consolidation of incumbent workforces (and 1,663 employees ) under single, streamlined organization • The company was organized to focus on critical work scope
Consolidation of Work Scope • Combine all waste operations under Waste Ops director • Provides strong continuity for achieving Idaho Settlement Agreement milestones • Phased approach • Early engagement with unions and workers • Create collaborative and mutually beneficial work arrangement • Worker involvement in assessment and optimization to implement “best of best” procedures, systems, and tools • Business and program management system consolidation • Adopt and adapt best practices of both CWI and ITG systems where practical
Challenges • Breaking down barriers, both physical and perceived • A fence between connecting facilities was removed to signify a united workforce • “Them versus us” mentality had to be broken down • Union interface • Early on there were disagreements over which union was responsible for specific work • We drafted memorandums of understanding allowing unions to do similar work as long as it didn’t impact jurisdictional boundaries • Training • Since Waste Management personnel support all Fluor Idaho-managed facilities, we had to implement a uniform training system • This effort is continuing
Low-level Waste Successes/Capabilities • Assumed contract June 1, 2016; released 1st shipment of mixed low-level waste June 8, 2016 • 364 low-level/mixed low-level waste shipments completed • 3,774 m3 low-level/mixed low-level waste shipped • Met all contractual milestones for low-level/mixed low-level waste disposition for both FY16 and FY17 • EnergySolutions, Perma Fix, DSSI, WCS and NNSS assisted Fluor Idaho with the disposition of problematic waste
Low-level Waste Successes/Capabilities (cont’d) • Received DOE approval to use new 8-120B cask for shipment of remote-handled low-level wastes to offsite disposal facilities, increasing allowable fissile gram equivalent from 325 to 2,200 • This allows us to ship as many as eight containers versus the previous cask’s one • Continuing to utilize our onsite low-level waste landfill for disposal of a host of CERCLA-generated cleanup wastes
Low-level Waste Successes/Capabilities (cont’d) • Continuing to use real-time radiography and gamma spectrometry equipment at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project to characterize waste, segregating low-level waste from the transuranic waste inventory and shipping to offsite facilities for permanent disposal • Using a macroencapsulation process for mixed low-level waste shipments to an offsite disposal facility has resulted in significant savings.
Other Waste Management Successes/Capabilities Retrieval of Above-Ground Waste • All remaining boxes and barrels of radioactive and hazardous waste from an inventory of 65,000 cubic meters were retrieved in February 2017, six months early • Shipments to WIPP resumed in April • As of mid-October, Fluor Idaho has completed nearly 60 shipments • The Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project is a one-stop shop for characterizing, treating, certifying, and shipping waste offsite • It is being considered for additional DOE Complex TRU waste processing
Other Waste Management Successes/Capabilities (cont’d) Exhumation of Buried Waste • Completed the exhumation and packaging of a combined 7,485 cubic meters of radioactive and hazardous wastes in September last year – a key provision of the 2008 record of decision • 1 acre left to remediate under Fluor Idaho’s contract • Approximately two years ahead of schedule
Other Waste Management Successes/Capabilities (cont’d) Other Waste Disposition • Two hot cells at the INTEC facility are being used to treat/repackage remote-handled transuranic waste • One of the hot cells was highly modified this summer to allow for larger waste containers • Three unique sodium-treatment methods are being deployed to treat the RH-TRU waste • Spritzing • Immersion • Distillation • This treated material will ultimately be shipped to WIPP
Summary • The transition to a single cleanup contract at Idaho was challenging but manageable • Some activities, such as the creation of a uniform training system, are ongoing • We are leveraging existing industry practices as well as unique processes to characterize and disposition our mixed low-level wastes • The Waste Management program is using one-of-a-kind technologies to treat and disposition other waste types • Some of our Waste Management facilities have the capability to treat other DOE Complex wastes, which is being considered