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Richland Operations Status Report Robert B. Elkins

Richland Operations Status Report Robert B. Elkins. ASP-DOECAP 2010 Workshop September 2010 Seattle, Washington. History of the Hanford Site. Site established in 1942 as part of the Manhattan Project to produce plutonium

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Richland Operations Status Report Robert B. Elkins

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  1. Richland Operations Status ReportRobert B. Elkins ASP-DOECAP 2010 Workshop September 2010 Seattle, Washington

  2. History of the Hanford Site • Site established in 1942 as part of the Manhattan Project to produce plutonium • Nine reactors and five chemical separations facilities built and operated • Defense mission ended in the late 1980s • Environmental cleanup mission subsequently established through the Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Tri-Party Agreement - TPA) • Department of Energy • Environmental Protection Agency Region X • Washington State Department of Ecology

  3. Current Mission: Hanford Organization DOE - Richland Operations Office Mission Support Contract (Mission Support Alliance, LLC) Plateau Remediation Contract (CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company) River Corridor Closure Contract (Washington Closure Hanford) DOE - Office of River Protection Tank Farms Contract (Washington River Protection Solutions) Waste Treatment Plant (Bechtel National, Inc.) DOE - Pacific Northwest Site Office Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Battelle)

  4. Current Mission: Shrinking the Footprint • Footprint reduction of 45-60% by 2011 (Total reduction of 80-90% by 2015 leaving only the Central Plateau Inner Zone) • Work in four areas: • River Corridor (~210 sq. miles) • Central Plateau, Outer Zone(~65 sq. miles) • Central Plateau, Inner Zone(~10 sq. miles) • Hanford Reach National Monument (~300 sq. miles, including Arid Lands Ecology Reserve)

  5. Current Activities • Central Plateau Cleanup • Solid Waste (LLW, MLLW, TRU, RH and CH) • Liquid Effluents • CERCLA waste sites (burial grounds, cribs) • Decommissioning and demolition of facilities • River Corridor Cleanup • Waste Site Remediation • Reactor decommissioning and entombing • Groundwater Program • Protecting the Columbia River • Treatment • Monitoring/Modeling

  6. Recovery Act Funding • DOE’s Office of River Protection and Richland Operations Office American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) apportionment totals $1.961 billion • Must be used by September 2011 • Lives touched – 4,547. Includes jobs saved plus new hires. (CHPRC March 2010) • Outside Contracts – over $500M awarded

  7. Hanford Stimulus Funded Work Facility Demolition

  8. Hanford Stimulus Funded Work • Removal of gloveboxes from the Plutonium Finishing Plant • 327 Hot Cell Removal

  9. Hanford Stimulus Funded Work • 135,000 tons of contaminated soil removed from the BC Control Area • Equipment relocation from the U Canyon deck into the cells • Retrieval of TRU waste from underground storage

  10. Hanford Stimulus Funded Work • Bureau of Reclamation ¼ Corner Section Marker - 1939 • Debris removal from Arid Lands Ecology Reserve

  11. What’s Ahead • Planned completion of River Corridor by 2015 • Planned completion of the Outer Zone by 2015 • Site closure date extending beyond 2050

  12. Projected use of Laboratories and TSDFs in FY 11 and FY 12 • Continue use of DOECAP contracted laboratories • Represents about 20% of the site’s analytical workload • $1.3 million spent in FY 2010 • Subcontract laboratory usage is expected to remain the same for FY’s 2011 and 2012

  13. RL Laboratories* On-Site Laboratories • WSCF (MSC) • Plutonium Finishing Plant for NDA only (PRC) • 222-S Advanced Technologies and Laboratories (ATL) Off-Site Laboratories • Test America Laboratory – Richland, Washington • Test America Laboratory – St. Louis, Missouri • Test America Laboratory – Knoxville, Tennessee • Eberline Laboratory – Richmond, California • Lionville Laboratory – Lionville, Pennsylvania • PNNL has three small dollar-value contracts with other DOECAP laboratories * Does not include Industrial Hygiene Laboratories

  14. What’s Ahead for the TSDFs • Stimulus funding to accelerate treatment and disposal of remaining legacy M/LLW backlog • Stimulus funding to accelerate retrieval of remaining CH TRU wastes • DOECAP TSDF Contracts • Perma-Fix Northwest , Richland, WA: MLLW Treatment and LLW volume reduction • Perma-Fix M&EC, Oak Ridge Site, TN: MLLW Treatment • Perma-Fix DSSI, Kingston, TN: MLLW Treatment • Perma-Fix Gainesville, FL: MLLW Treatment & waste bulking • ES-Clive, UT: MLLW Treatment & disposal

  15. Hanford Participation in DOECAP • Continue to audit laboratories used by DOE’s Richland Operations (RL) • Continue to support revisions and changes to QSAS

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