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Title: Savannah River Site Eastern Transportation Hub: A Concept For a DOE Eastern Packaging, Staging and Maintenance Center - 13143

Abstract

The Department of Energy (DOE) is working to de-inventory sites and consolidate hazardous materials for processing and disposal. The DOE administers a wide range of certified shipping packages for the transport of hazardous materials to include Special Nuclear Material (SNM), radioactive materials, sealed sources and radioactive wastes. A critical element to successful and safe transportation of these materials is the availability of certified shipping packages. There are over seven thousand certified packagings (i.e., Type B/Type AF) utilized within the DOE for current missions. The synergistic effects of consolidated maintenance, refurbishment, testing, certification, and costing of these services would allow for efficient management of the packagings inventory and to support anticipated future in-commerce shipping needs. The Savannah River Site (SRS) receives and ships radioactive materials (including SNM) and waste on a regular basis for critical missions such as consolidated storage, stabilization, purification, or disposition using H-Canyon and HB-Line. The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) has the technical capability and equipment for all aspects of packaging management. SRS has the only active material processing facility in the DOE complex and is one of the sites of choice for nuclear material consolidation. SRS is a logical location to perform maintenance and periodic testingmore » of the DOE fleet of certified packagings. This initiative envisions a DOE Eastern Packaging Staging and Maintenance Center (PSMC) at the SRS and a western hub at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), an active DOE Regional Disposal Site. The PSMC's would be the first place DOE would go to meet their radioactive packaging needs and the primary locations projects would go to disposition excess packaging for beneficial reuse. These two hubs would provide the centralized management of a packaging fleet rather than the current approach to design, procure, maintain and dispose of packagings on a project-by-project basis. This initiative provides significant savings in packaging costs and acceleration of project schedules. In addition to certified packaging, the PSMC would be well suited for select designs of 7A Type A packaging and Industrial Packaging. (authors)« less

Authors:
 [1]; ; ;  [2]; ; ; ;  [3];  [4];  [5]
  1. Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina (United States)
  2. U.S. Department of Energy, Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC (United States)
  3. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, Aiken, SC (United States)
  4. National Security Technologies, LLC, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
  5. U.S. Department of Energy, HQ DOE, EM-33, Germantown MD (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
WM Symposia, 1628 E. Southern Avenue, Suite 9-332, Tempe, AZ 85282 (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
22224918
Report Number(s):
INIS-US-13-WM-13143
TRN: US14V0359045873
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: WM2013: Waste Management Conference: International collaboration and continuous improvement, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 24-28 Feb 2013; Other Information: Country of input: France; 2 refs.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 42 ENGINEERING; DESIGN; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; MAINTENANCE; NATIONAL SECURITY; NEVADA; PACKAGING; PURIFICATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SAVANNAH RIVER; SEALED SOURCES; TESTING; TRANSPORT

Citation Formats

England, Jeffery L., Adams, Karen, Maxted, Maxcine, Ruff, Jr, Clarence, Albenesius, Andrew, Bowers, Mark D., Fountain, Geoffrey, Hughes, Michael, Gordon, Sydney, and O'Connor, Stephen. Savannah River Site Eastern Transportation Hub: A Concept For a DOE Eastern Packaging, Staging and Maintenance Center - 13143. United States: N. p., 2013. Web.
England, Jeffery L., Adams, Karen, Maxted, Maxcine, Ruff, Jr, Clarence, Albenesius, Andrew, Bowers, Mark D., Fountain, Geoffrey, Hughes, Michael, Gordon, Sydney, & O'Connor, Stephen. Savannah River Site Eastern Transportation Hub: A Concept For a DOE Eastern Packaging, Staging and Maintenance Center - 13143. United States.
England, Jeffery L., Adams, Karen, Maxted, Maxcine, Ruff, Jr, Clarence, Albenesius, Andrew, Bowers, Mark D., Fountain, Geoffrey, Hughes, Michael, Gordon, Sydney, and O'Connor, Stephen. 2013. "Savannah River Site Eastern Transportation Hub: A Concept For a DOE Eastern Packaging, Staging and Maintenance Center - 13143". United States.
@article{osti_22224918,
title = {Savannah River Site Eastern Transportation Hub: A Concept For a DOE Eastern Packaging, Staging and Maintenance Center - 13143},
author = {England, Jeffery L. and Adams, Karen and Maxted, Maxcine and Ruff, Jr, Clarence and Albenesius, Andrew and Bowers, Mark D. and Fountain, Geoffrey and Hughes, Michael and Gordon, Sydney and O'Connor, Stephen},
abstractNote = {The Department of Energy (DOE) is working to de-inventory sites and consolidate hazardous materials for processing and disposal. The DOE administers a wide range of certified shipping packages for the transport of hazardous materials to include Special Nuclear Material (SNM), radioactive materials, sealed sources and radioactive wastes. A critical element to successful and safe transportation of these materials is the availability of certified shipping packages. There are over seven thousand certified packagings (i.e., Type B/Type AF) utilized within the DOE for current missions. The synergistic effects of consolidated maintenance, refurbishment, testing, certification, and costing of these services would allow for efficient management of the packagings inventory and to support anticipated future in-commerce shipping needs. The Savannah River Site (SRS) receives and ships radioactive materials (including SNM) and waste on a regular basis for critical missions such as consolidated storage, stabilization, purification, or disposition using H-Canyon and HB-Line. The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) has the technical capability and equipment for all aspects of packaging management. SRS has the only active material processing facility in the DOE complex and is one of the sites of choice for nuclear material consolidation. SRS is a logical location to perform maintenance and periodic testing of the DOE fleet of certified packagings. This initiative envisions a DOE Eastern Packaging Staging and Maintenance Center (PSMC) at the SRS and a western hub at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), an active DOE Regional Disposal Site. The PSMC's would be the first place DOE would go to meet their radioactive packaging needs and the primary locations projects would go to disposition excess packaging for beneficial reuse. These two hubs would provide the centralized management of a packaging fleet rather than the current approach to design, procure, maintain and dispose of packagings on a project-by-project basis. This initiative provides significant savings in packaging costs and acceleration of project schedules. In addition to certified packaging, the PSMC would be well suited for select designs of 7A Type A packaging and Industrial Packaging. (authors)},
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year = {Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
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