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Idaho Cleanup Project: Achievements & Strategic Vision

Deputy Manager Richard B. Provencher outlines the remarkable progress of the Idaho Cleanup Project, with reduced costs, accelerated timelines, and improved safety measures. Learn about key accomplishments, goals, and ongoing challenges.

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Idaho Cleanup Project: Achievements & Strategic Vision

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  1. Richard B. Provencher Deputy Manager Idaho Cleanup Project

  2. Overall EM Complex Progress • Productivity Improvements: • Reduced $50B from $192B to $142B (in unescalated dollars) • Accelerated the completion date by 35 years to 2035 • Risk to Workers and Environment have been significantly reduced • Total Reportable Case Rate (TRCR) and Lost Workday Case Rate (LWCR) have been reduced by 42% and 38% respectively

  3. Overall EM Complex Progress (cont) • Getting Work Accomplished (FY03 Complex-wide results) • Exceeded Transuranic (TRU) waste to Waste Isolated Pilot Plant (WIPP) goal by 41% (6372m3) • Exceeded Mixed Low Level Waste (MLLW) disposal goal by 58% (118,361m3) • Exceeded Facility Demolitions by 133% (135 facilities) • Exceeded Remediation Completions by 21% (260 sites)

  4. Strategic Vision of Idaho Completion Project • Clearly Define End States and Focus on Risk Reduction • Convert to Focused Contract for Cleanup • Build on Recent Productivity Successes and Accomplishments • Continue to Focus on Safely Performing Work • Eliminate Legacy of Past Missions and Create Opportunity for New

  5. Recent ICP Performance: • Productivity Improvement – since FY02 the ICP has: • Reduced $10.1B from $25.7B to $15.6B (in unescalated dollars) • The ICP completion date is accelerated 35 years • Getting more work done safely • Getting Work Accomplished (FY02 – 6/30/04) • Eliminated 270,000 sq. ft. of the remaining EM footprint • Packaged and shipped 40% of remaining EM-managed Special Nuclear Material (SNM) off-site

  6. Recent ICP Performance (cont) • Eliminated 80% of backlog MLLW and over 1000m3 of newly generated mixed waste • Remove all spent fuel from INEEL’s last three aging basins • Emptied and cleaned five 300,000 gal. And four 30,000 gal. tanks • Completed the Glovebox Excavator Method Project (GEM) and remediated Waste Area Group (WAG) 4

  7. Eliminate MLLW Backlog Project Status Cubic Meters Shipped Offsite For Treatment/Disposal 2500 2500 2000 2000 1500 1500 Cubic Meters Backlog MLLW Shipped Offsite Cubic Meters Backlog MLLW Shipped Offsite FY04 Baseline - Total Backlog MLLW Volume Shipped Offsite 1000 1000 500 500 FY04 Actual - Total Backlog MLLW Volume Shipped Offsite 0 0 10/03/03 10/31/03 11/28/03 12/26/03 01/23/04 02/20/04 03/19/04 04/16/04 05/14/04 06/11/04 07/09/04 08/06/04 09/03/04 10/01/04

  8. Tank Farm Volumes (gallons, as of May 31, 2004) Pillar and Flushed Flushed Flushed Flushed Flushed Panel & Cleaned & Cleaned & Cleaned & Cleaned & Cleaned WM-182 WM-184 WM-185 WM-183 WM-186 3,000 6,400 6,200 6,400 6,900 Square Vaults Spare WM-187 WM-190 WM-188 WM-189 149,000 258,700 279,700 500 Total Liquid in 300,000-gallon Tank Farm Tanks: Octagon Flushed 996,000 gallons Vaults & Cleaned 4-30,000 gallon Tanks also Flushed & Cleaned. WM-180 WM-181 272,700 6,500

  9. Significant Challenges Remain • Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC) • Buried Waste Cleanup • TRU Removal at Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility (AMWTF) • Idaho Nuclear Technology & Engineering Center (INTEC) • Liquid Waste Cleanup • Spent Fuel Consolidation

  10. Workforce • Contribution has been Significant • Effort has Reduced Risk to Workers, Environment, and Public

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