Post on 20-Jan-2016
Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) Nevada Field Office
(NFO) FY 2015 Status Report
Milinka Watson-GarrettAnalytical Services Manager
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)ASP Workshop – Charleston, SC
September 14-17, 2015
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NNSS• Located ~65 miles northwest of
Las Vegas, NV
• Approximately 1,360 square miles of DOE controlled land
– Only 10% of NNSS lands disturbed by historic and current program activities
• Historic mission: Research and development of nuclear weapons
– Currently undergoing characterization and clean up
– 98% of investigations and corrective actions at surface contamination sites completed
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NFO Missions
• Defense experimentation and stockpile stewardship
• Global security
• Environmental management
The NNSS is the nation’s only site for high-explosive-driven subcritical plutonium experiments – essential for safe, effective stewardship of the enduring nuclear stockpile
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NNSS Assets
• Device Assembly Facility
• Big Explosives Experimental Facility
• Joint Actinide Shock Physics Experimental Research
• U1a Underground Experimental Complex
• Nonproliferation Test and Evaluation Complex
• Nuclear Criticality Experiments Research Center
• Radiological/Nuclear Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Center
• Radiological/Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction Incident Exercise Site
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Contractors• National Security Technologies, LLC (NSTec)
– Remediation, restoration
– Laboratory data validation
– Waste management
– National security/defense
– Renewable energy, conservation and infrastructure for National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• Navarro – Corrective action investigations
– Remediation, restoration
– Groundwater modeling
– Laboratory data validation
– Waste management
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Industrial Sites
• Land and facilities used in direct support of nuclear testing
– 1,970 sites listed
– 12 sites remain
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Soils
• Soil sites contaminated by atmospheric nuclear testing are being characterized, remediated, restored and/or use restricted
– 250 samples collected in FY 2015
– 1,545 analyses performed in FY 2015
– 142 sites listed
– 23 sites remain
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Underground Test Area
• Five Corrective Action Units (CAUs) with multiple well locations
– Scheduled for closure, model evaluation and/or investigation by data gathering activities
– 150 samples collected in FY 2015
– 700 analyses performed in FY 2015
• Sampling and analysis required for all CAUs
Groundwater Characterization
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Waste Management/National Security-Defense/Conservation/Infrastructure
~2,500 environmental/waste samples collected in FY 2015
• Waste Management: ~550 analyses
• National Security/Defense: ~20 analyses
• Conservation: ~80 analyses
• Infrastructure: ~3,000 analyses
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Commercial Laboratory Use (FY 2015)
• Environmental: $500,000
– NSTec: $140,000
– Navarro: $360,000
• NSTec Industrial Hygiene: $26,000
• NSTec Bioassay: $24,500
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Planned Commercial Laboratory Use (FY 2016)
• Environmental: $340,000
– NSTec: $140,000
– Navarro: $200,000
• NSTec Industrial Hygiene: $6,000
• NSTec Bioassay: $18,500
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Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities
• FY 2015: $23,000
• FY 2016 anticipated: To be determined
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Auditors• Quality Assurance
• Radiochemistry
• Organic
• Inorganic
• Waste Operations
• Environmental Compliance
• Transportation
• Hazardous and Radiological Materials Management
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Audit Participation
• FY 2015 audits
– Four (4) labs
– Four (4) treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs)
• FY 2016 anticipated
– Five (5) labs
– Three (3) TSDFs
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