OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT EM VISION 2020-2030: A Time of Transition and Transformation 2 2 The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) mechanisms to reduce taxpayer risks and Office of Environmental Management encourage innovation, utilizing a science- (EM) has been entrusted with one of the driven and risk-informed approach to largest environmental efforts in the world – cleanup and ensuring a strong pipeline addressing the substantial environmental of talent throughout the program for the liability resulting primarily from decades future. of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, Under research that contributed so much to Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and national security and prosperity. For 30 senior DOE leadership are personally years, EM has tackled this legacy, and as committed to, and invested in, the success a result of a track record of success, EM of the EM mission. I am honored to lead has shrunk the overall program footprint by the program at this point in its history. I 90 percent, completing work at 91 of the have had the opportunity to visit many EM original 107 sites, some of which date back sites, and meet with the men and women to the Manhattan Project and the birth of – both federal and contractor employees – the Atomic Age. who are EM’s greatest asset. They are the reason for our successes to date, and the As EM proceeds toward completion of the accomplishments we plan to achieve. remaining 10 percent, 2020 will come to be seen as an inflection point for sites across I am excited for the future of EM – over the the complex. We will see skyline changes course of this year, the decade to come at a variety of sites where successful and the long-term – and look forward to demolition efforts will result in risk seeing this Strategic Vision realized. We reduction after years of preparatory work. will continue engaging with Congress, We will continue to shrink the remaining EM state and local governments, Tribal nations footprint, and we will compete and award and the communities near our sites on new contracts that will enable continued, this vision for the future so that we can and accelerated, progress across the EM demonstrate the government’s ability to program. After years of effort, we will bring keep its commitments to all of those who online new capabilities to tackle our largest have played such an important role in this remaining environmental risk – radioactive country’s history. waste stored in underground tanks.

This Strategic Vision not only lays out William “Ike” White EM’s planned slate of accomplishments Senior Advisor for Environmental Management for this year, but also outlines a decade of to the Under Secretary for Science anticipated progress across the breadth of the program. This progress will be based on a foundation of strategic initiatives EM is pursuing to ensure we are best positioned for the years to come, including strengthening project management, continued use of new contracting

3 EM Sites

Hanford Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU)

Idaho National West Valley Laboratory Demonstration Project

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Moab UMTRA Project Portsmouth Site

Nevada National Brookhaven Security Site National Laboratory

Paducah Site Los Alamos Energy Technology National Laboratory Engineering Center (ETEC)

Sandia National Laboratories Oak Ridge

Savannah River Site

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)

4 EM VISION 2020-2030: A Time of Transition and Transformation

5 EM VISION 2020-2030: A Time of Transition and Transformation

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 30 Years of Progress Office of Environmental Management Over the past 30 years, the EM program (EM) has its roots in the Manhattan has achieved significant and lasting Project and the development of the first progress in tackling this environmental atomic weapon. EM’s mission is to safely legacy. The overall footprint has been and efficiently address the substantial reduced by 90 percent, from approximately environmental liability resulting primarily 3,300 square miles to less than 300 from decades of nuclear weapons square miles. Work remains at 16 of the production and government-sponsored original 107 sites, including: nuclear energy research that played such a pivotal role in domestic security and prosperity. • Brookhaven National Laboratory • Energy Technology Engineering At its inception in 1989, the EM program Center (ETEC) faced a daunting task. The production • Hanford of more than 1,000 metric tons of weapons-grade uranium and more than • Idaho National Laboratory 100 metric tons of plutonium resulted • Lawrence Livermore National in environmental contamination at a Laboratory total of 107 sites throughout the United • Los Alamos National Laboratory States – covering an area equal to the combined size of Delaware and Rhode • Moab Island. This contamination included more • Nevada National Security Site than 90 million gallons of liquid radioactive • Oak Ridge waste resulting from the separation of • Paducah plutonium from spent nuclear fuel, now stored in underground tanks; and more • Portsmouth than 700,000 metric tons of depleted • Sandia National Laboratory uranium produced as a byproduct of • Savannah River Site uranium enrichment activities. More than 5,000 contaminated facilities needed to • Separations Process Research be addressed. Millions of cubic meters of Unit contaminated soil, and billions of gallons of • Waste Isolation Pilot Plant contaminated groundwater, needed to be • West Valley Demonstration Project remediated.

6 Highlights of EM’s significant accomplishments to date have included: • Completing cleanup activities at major • Completing the Advanced Mixed Waste former weapons production sites such as Treatment Project at the Idaho National Rocky Flats in Colorado and the Fernald Laboratory (INL) site where 65,000 and Mound sites in Ohio. cubic meters of legacy TRU waste were • Opening the world’s first underground processed for off-site disposal. deep geological repository for transuranic • Completing construction and initiating (TRU) waste resulting from atomic energy operation of two depleted uranium defense activities at the Waste Isolation hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. at the Paducah Site in Kentucky and • Completing the bulk of cleanup activities Portsmouth Site in Ohio. along the 220-square mile Columbia River • Completing the disposal of approximately Corridor at Hanford in Washington State. two-thirds of the 16-million-ton uranium • Completing almost 25 years of successful mill tailings pile at the Moab site in Utah. operations at the Defense Waste • Completing waste vitrification activities Processing Facility at the Savannah River and subsequent demolition of the Site (SRS) in South Carolina, vitrifying more Vitrification Facility at the West Valley than 4 million gallons of radioactive waste. Demonstration Project (WVDP) in New • Completing the decommissioning and York State. This marked the first time demolition of five former gaseous diffusion EM has built, operated and successfully uranium enrichment plants at Oak Ridge in decommissioned one of its major waste Tennessee, including Building K-25, at one treatment facilities. time the largest building in the world under one roof.

EM’s Prioritization Approach 2020– An Inflection Point for EM EM pursues its cleanup objectives safely within a framework of regulatory compliance commitments At the start of this decade, EM is at an inflection and best business practices. Taking many variables point at sites across the complex that will position into account, EM’s priorities are as follows: the program for even greater success in the years to come. After years of effort, EM plans to begin • Activities to maintain a safe, secure, and operation of two major radioactive waste treatment compliant posture. facilities – the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) • Radioactive tank waste stabilization, at SRS and the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit treatment, and disposal. (IWTU) at the INL site. In addition, progress will continue toward beginning tank waste treatment at • Spent (used) nuclear fuel storage, receipt, Hanford through the Direct Feed Low Activity Waste and disposition. (DFLAW) approach. • Nuclear material consolidation, stabilization, and disposition. Individually, these capabilities will significantly enhance • TRU and mixed low-level waste (MLLW) EM’s ability to tackle the largest environmental disposition. risks at SRS, the INL site and Hanford. Together, • Soil and groundwater remediation. they represent an evolution of the EM mission as it transitions from years of design and construction • Excess facilities deactivation and of these massive, first-of-a-kind nuclear facilities, to decommissioning (D&D). focusing on tank waste treatment operations.

7 EM is also taking major steps to further reduce • Completing disposal of legacy TRU waste its footprint and remove legacy facilities. At the from SRS (Page 52). Oak Ridge site, this year will mark the successful • Completing construction of the Mercury completion of a multi-year effort to demolish Treatment Facility at Oak Ridge (Page 38). facilities at the East Tennessee Technology Park • Completing disposal of remaining legacy (ETTP), one of the original Manhattan Project sites. TRU waste and uranium-233 at Oak Ridge The successful completion of ETTP will provide (Page 38). significant risk reduction and environmental benefits. • Completing the treatment of remaining liquid At Hanford, the former Plutonium Finishing Plant – sodium-bearing waste at the INL site a key facility in U.S. nuclear weapons production (Page 22). and once one of the most dangerous buildings in • Completing targeted buried waste the DOE complex – will be demolished to slab- exhumation at the INL site (Page 22). on-grade, representing a major risk reduction • Completing shipments of legacy TRU waste achievement. At the Portsmouth site, the skyline from the INL site to WIPP for disposal will change as demolition begins at one of the (Page 22). three former massive gaseous diffusion enrichment process buildings. And at West Valley, EM will gear • Completing building demolition at TA-21 at up to demolish the last remaining major facility there the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) – the former Main Plant Process Building. (Page 28). • Addressing chromium groundwater EM’s accomplishments over the coming year will contamination at LANL (Page 28). not be limited to its larger sites. Legacy cleanup • Completing the new Safety-Significant activities at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Confinement Ventilation System and other will be completed. In addition, responsibility for key infrastructure upgrades at WIPP the successfully remediated sites at the Tonopah (Page 58). Test Range, near the Nevada National Security Site • Demolishing two of three former uranium (NNSS), will be transferred to the DOE Office of enrichment process buildings at Portsmouth Legacy Management (LM) for long-term monitoring. (Page 46). The Decade to Come • Completing deactivation activities at the C-333 former uranium enrichment process Building upon these anticipated successes, this building at Paducah (Page 42). Strategic Vision outlines the coming decade of progress and risk reduction across the EM • Completing demolition of the former Main program, including: Plant Process Building at the WVDP (Page 62). • Initiating radioactive tank waste treatment at • Demolishing the remaining buildings, and Hanford (Page 18). initiating soil remediation, at the ETEC site • Completing demolition activities along the in California (Page 16). Columbia River at Hanford and placing the • Completing legacy cleanup activities at the last two reactors into an interim safe storage NNSS (Page 34). configuration (Page 18). • Emptying and closing 22 of 51 underground waste tanks at SRS (Page 52).

8 Enabling Continued Success The Project Management policy will initially apply to the demolition projects in the EM portfolio, but may EM is undertaking a variety of strategic initiatives to be expanded to other EM cleanup projects. The enable successes across the DOE complex in the Cleanup Program Management Policy will incorporate coming decade, and for the remainder of the principles of risk-based decision making, its mission. development of an integrated lifecycle baseline and follow the leading principles of program management. Safety: Most importantly, EM will continue to perform its activities in a “Safety First” culture End-State Contracting: Approximately 90 percent that integrates environmental, safety and health of EM’s annual budget is utilized through contracting requirements and controls in all work activities. EM with an array of industry partners. EM will continue has a safety record well ahead of other comparable to be a demanding client, expecting that contractors industries. We will continue to partner with EM will perform in a safe, efficient and cost-effective contractor corporate leadership in strengthening manner and with the highest ethical standards. The corporate governance and oversight. EM will next two to three years will see EM undertake new continue to incorporate graded approaches to procurements for cleanup contracts at almost every nuclear safety and quality assurance requirements site. This contracting push will result in the wide-spread into the new end-state based contracts, to promote application of EM’s end-state contracting model, which technically sound and cost-effective implementation encompasses a two-step Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite of the requirements based on hazards and risks. Quantity (IDIQ) contracting process. The health and safety of EM workers, the public and the environment is our highest priority. In the end-state model, EM will negotiate scope, cost, and schedule on specific elements of work Given the scope and Project Management: through task orders in an IDIQ type of contract, magnitude of the cleanup work to be tackled over instead of putting in place cost-based contracts the coming decade, it is essential that EM is best- that span 10-plus years with general scopes of in-class when it comes to project management. In work. This initiative provides the ability to group the recent years, EM has made significant strides in work under the contract into specific task orders strengthening its project management capabilities. to allow better clarity and shorter time horizons, as Going forward, EM is in the process of developing well as provide more accurate cost and schedule a new Cleanup Project Management Policy and targets. The initiative will also provide for an improved revising its Cleanup Program Management Policy. accountability structure to motivate contractors

9 toward improved cost and schedule performance.

Innovative Approaches: Given the scale and scope of the remaining EM mission, the development of new and innovative approaches to performing cleanup activities is critical so that EM can safely complete its work in a more efficient and more cost-effective manner. Last year, DOE took the significant step of issuing a notice of its interpretation of the statutory term “high-level radioactive waste,” which may allow some lower activity reprocessing waste to be disposed of based on its radiological characteristics, rather than solely upon its origin. This could provide additional options to dispose of certain reprocessing wastes in a timely and technologically sound fashion. EM has taken an initial step toward the use of this interpretation for a single waste stream at SRS. This process is part of the DOE science-based approach to managing radioactive waste that is fully protective of human health and the environment. modest investments at the Portsmouth and Moab sites could result in completing cleanup within this EM is also seeking to enhance its technology decade, years ahead of current schedules. research-and-development efforts to better identify and demonstrate new and innovative approaches for At the INL site, closure of the Radioactive Waste tackling cleanup challenges that offer a significant Management Complex could be achieved by 2030. return on investment, recognizing the need to At Los Alamos, additional resources could allow balance between basic and applied research, and to waste processing activities at Area G to operate at effectively adapt commercially available technologies full capacity, and lead to completing shipments of to EM cleanup needs. transuranic waste from Area G by 2029. No decisions have been made at this time on these potential Over the coming years, EM will construct the Advanced acceleration opportunities. EM will continue to Manufacturing Collaborative (AMC) facility for the assess these, as well as other opportunities that may Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). The AMC become apparent over the coming years, working will allow the Department to focus on developing and with Members of Congress, state governments and adapting safer and more cost-effective technology, other key regulators and stakeholders. facilities, and expertise for nuclear chemical and materials manufacturing to tackle the remaining Next-Generation Workforce: EM currently has challenges in the cleanup of radioactive and chemical a workforce of approximately 25,000 federal and waste resulting from Cold War activities and nuclear contractor employees. These employees are critical research. to EM’s plans for the coming decade. However, with the EM program currently anticipated to last for at As a Potential Opportunities for Acceleration: least another 50 years, and a workforce that has strong steward of taxpayer resources, EM constantly a significant portion eligible, or soon to be eligible, works to identify and assess opportunities to for retirement, an infusion of new professionals, accelerate cleanup and completion of an entire including those early in their careers, in a variety of site, or opportunities to accelerate key pieces of fields will be needed. workscope. The coming decade offers several potential opportunities for acceleration that EM will continue to assess and develop. For example,

10 EM plans to execute a federal recruitment strategy EM actively works with other DOE organizations to utilizing a diverse assortment of federal tools assess infrastructure needs across the Department. and hiring authorities that allow for maximum management flexibility and discretion as we build Regulatory/Stakeholder Engagement: Across and sustain a best-in-class workforce. These tools the country, EM is subject to more than 40 various include making use of the summer intern program federal and state regulatory agreements, many by recruiting students with science, technology, of which have hundreds of milestones. EM looks engineering and math (STEM) areas of study to work forward to maintaining and strengthening the on EM projects; and leveraging students with STEM positive relationship it has with regulators across disciplines for internship opportunities through the country, and will continue meaningful discussion programs such as the DOE Scholars Program and between federal decision-makers and local the Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program governments, civic groups, labor organizations, (MSIPP). universities, industry and other interested citizens, to promote mutual interests, share perspectives and EM also supports veterans, such as through the openly discuss potential impacts. Operation Warfighter Program, which is designed to provide recuperating service members meaningful EM is focused on identifying methods for activity outside of the hospital environment. This streamlining regulatory approaches and accelerating program offers a formal means of transition from cleanup by pursuing strategies that are faster the military to the civilian workforce. In addition, and more cost effective while still technically EM is working to engage early career professionals sound and protective of workers, the public and through a variety of means, such as knowledge the environment. EM will continue to leverage transfer meetings and detail opportunities, as well international opportunities for technical information as a relaunched Pathways internship program. exchange that mutually benefits the U.S. and foreign governments. Infrastructure: EM faces a continued challenge of performing cleanup activities at sites with Security/Cybersecurity: EM sites are home to a decades-old general purpose and mission-specific variety of special nuclear materials and facilities. infrastructure, in some instances originating in the EM will continue to address technology upgrades, World War II era. EM will work to align infrastructure infrastructure and equipment; staffing and training; needs with cleanup activities. EM continues to and streamlined processes to ensure safety, monitor the status of infrastructure investments and security, and emergency preparedness solutions to the Department’s evolving infrastructure condition. protect EM assets, operations, mission essential

11 functions, and provide resiliency during emergency Conclusion events. Over the past 30 years, the EM program has demonstrated the capability to achieve significant Cybersecurity threats are growing and present and lasting progress, helping to fulfill the significant challenge to DOE and EM. To keep pace government’s commitment to the people who live with this continually changing environment, EM will near, and work at, DOE sites. The year 2020 sets develop comprehensive, risk-based approaches the stage for a fourth decade of success across the based on the Department’s recently updated DOE program that has the potential to fundamentally shift Order 205.1C. Implementing an agile, effective, and the overall trajectory of EM. This Strategic Vision cost-efficient approach to cybersecurity requires outlines the breadth and scope of the planned EM to develop improved and systematic processes, progress at each of the remaining EM sites. and to leverage technologies that streamline the implementation of security controls. The None of this would be possible, though, without enhancement of EM cybersecurity capabilities will the talented and hardworking men and women who enable the program to anticipate and defend against perform this important work every day safely and the growing threat landscape and provide assurance efficiently. that its information remains secure, communication is not compromised, and risks to data and system infiltrations are mitigated.

12 Decade Timeline

2028 2028 2025 Complete shipments Complete the Complete of legacy TRU waste legacy cleanup construction of the from the INL site to activities at 2030 Mercury Treatment WIPP for disposal the NNSS Complete demolition 2020 Facility at Oak Ridge of 2 out of 3 former uranium enrichment Startup of process buildings at Savannah River Portsmouth Salt Waste 2028 Processing Facility 2022 Complete the and Complete Address chromium 2023 treatment of 2030 D&D Activities at groundwater remaining liquid Complete disposal Complete the new 2026 ETTP at Oak Ridge contamination sodium-bearing of legacy TRU waste Safety-Significant Complete disposal at LANL waste at the from SRS Confinement of remaining INL site Ventilation System legacy TRU waste and other key and uranium-233 2022 infrastructure at Oak Ridge 2027 2030 upgrades at WIPP Complete deactivation Complete targeted Closure of 22 of 51 activities at the C-333 buried waste underground waste 2023 former uranium exhumation at the tanks at SRS Initiate radioactive enrichment process INL site tank waste treatment building at Paducah at Hanford 2023 Complete demolition of the former Main Plant Process Building at the WVDP

2020 2030

13 Brookhaven National Laboratory

The High Flux Beam Reactor exhaust stack at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

14 Brookhaven National Laboratory

Overview The High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) Cleanup accomplishments include: at the Brookhaven National Laboratory • Completed D&D of the Brookhaven (BNL) in Upton, New York, was a research Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR). reactor that operated from 1965 to 1996. The mission of the HFBR was to provide • Completed soil and groundwater a source of neutrons for multidisciplinary remediation activities. scientific research in materials science, chemistry, biology, and physics. In Planned Cleanup Scope April 2000, the Office of Environmental 2020-2030 Management developed a Memorandum DOE will complete its remaining of Agreement with the Offices of Science workscope at Brookhaven in 2020. By (SC) and Nuclear Energy (NE) to transfer the end of 2020, work will be completed management and ownership of the reactor to remove Building 705, the HFBR to EM. Exhaust Stack. This 100-meter tall stack, initially constructed to provide an In February 2009, EM and the U.S. elevated exhaust of the BGRR primary Environmental Protection Agency, Region and secondary cooling air, is now almost 2, signed the Final Record of Decision 70 years old, and is no longer needed. (ROD) for the reactor. EM conducted Demolition activities include isolation of cleanup and demolition activities at BNL utilities (e.g., electrical service), demolition from the 1990s until 2013. While two of and removal of the stack to the pedestal, the reactors and associated facilities were final status survey, independent verification decommissioned, left behind was the survey, packaging, transportation, and 100-meter exhaust stack (Building 705). disposal of the waste, and restoration of The scope of this ROD included remedial the affected site. activities required to be completed by the end of 2020. All of these actions, except for the removal of the HFBR Exhaust Stack, have been completed. Upon completion of D&D, the facility will be transferred back to SC for long-term surveillance and maintenance. Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030

There are no post-2030 plans associated with Brookhaven.

15 Energy Technology Engineering Center

EM is preparing to demolish the remaining DOE-owned buildings at ETEC.

16 Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC)

Overview Cleanup accomplishments include: The ETEC site is located at the Santa • Demolished more than 250 buildings. Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) in Simi • Published a final EIS for soil and Valley, outside of Los Angeles, California. groundwater remediation. From the 1950s until 1988, DOE and its predecessor agencies conducted nuclear • Issued a Record of Decision for and liquid metals research at the 90-acre demolition of the remaining 18 DOE- ETEC site. While DOE does not directly owned buildings. own any land at the SSFL (today owned by Boeing), the Department is responsible Planned Cleanup Projects for demolition of the DOE-owned buildings 2020-2030 and cleanup in the 290 acres of the ETEC site and the associated Northern Buffer In the next 10 years, DOE will focus on Zone. Today, there are 18 DOE-owned demolishing the remaining DOE-owned buildings that remain to be addressed, buildings at the ETEC site, along with along with final soil and groundwater initiating soil and groundwater clean-up. cleanup activities.

Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030

Remaining cleanup activities at ETEC post-2030 will be dependent, in large part, on progress made on soil and groundwater clean-up through 2030.

17 Hanford

N Reactor with the K East and K West reactors in the background.

18 Hanford

Overview Central Plateau, including groundwater and waste site cleanup; management The Hanford Site, a 580-square-mile of solid waste, spent nuclear fuel, and section of semi-arid desert in central sludge; facility cleanout, deactivation, and Washington, was established in 1943 demolition; environmental restoration; as part of the Manhattan Project to plutonium management; and all site produce plutonium for national defense. support services. Construction began in October 1943 on the first industrial-scale nuclear reactor, DOE‐ORP was established by Congress B Reactor, which produced plutonium in 1998 as a field office to manage for the Trinity test and the atomic bomb the retrieval, treatment, and disposal used to help end World War II. In total, of approximately 56 million gallons of nine nuclear reactors were built along the radioactive tank waste currently stored banks of the Columbia River to provide in 177 underground tanks in the central product for five primary processing part of the site. The tank waste is material facilities that operated throughout the left over from years of World War II and Cold War era. In total, Hanford produced post‐war production of nuclear weapons two-thirds of the plutonium used in the fuel. In support of this mission, DOE‐ORP U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. is responsible for the safe operation of the tank farms and associated 200 Area With the signing of the Hanford Federal facilities and construction and operation of Facility Agreement and Consent Order the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment Plant (Tri‐Party Agreement [TPA]) in 1989 by the and Immobilization Plant (WTP) located in Washington State Department of Ecology the Central Plateau. (Ecology), EPA, and DOE, the primary mission of the Hanford Site shifted from Cleanup accomplishments include: production to cleanup. The Hanford Site’s current mission focuses on environmental • Remediated more than 1,300 restoration, which includes remediation waste sites. of contaminated areas, decontamination • Demolished over 880 facilities. and decommissioning of facilities, waste management (i.e., waste storage, • Completed interim safe storage six treatment, and disposal), and related reactors out of nine. scientific and environmental research • Preserved the B Reactor as a National and development of waste management Historic Landmark. technologies. • Transferred all spent nuclear fuel to Cleanup of the Hanford Site is overseen dry storage. by DOE’s Richland Operations Office • Transferred highly radioactive sludge (DOE‐RL) and Office of River Protection from K Basins near the Columbia (DOE‐ORP). The DOE‐RL and the DOE‐ River to longer-term storage on the ORP manage the site through several Hanford Central Plateau. contractors and their subcontractors. • Treated more than 22 billion gallons The DOE‐RL serves as the Hanford Site of contaminated groundwater. property owner and oversees cleanup along the Columbia River and in Hanford’s • Completed interim stabilization

19 efforts transferring 3 million gallons of Alternatives (AoA) for high-level waste treatment to pumpable liquids from single-shell tanks (SSTs) identify and evaluate a broad set of alternatives that to newer double-shell tanks (DSTs). meets the established mission need and to analyze the life-cycle cost, schedule, and risks associated with • Completed waste retrieval activities from 17 each alternative. In addition, DOE-ORP will continue SSTs and 1 DST. tank waste retrieval activities in the SSTs. Work is • Installed interim surface barriers at SST farms currently underway in the A and AX tank farms. with historical soil contamination. ADDITIONAL RISK REDUCTION Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 In 2020, DOE will complete the demolition of the At Hanford, the coming decade will see the Plutonium Finishing Plant, leaving it in slab-on- successful launch of one of EM’s largest and grade condition. Furthermore, several below grade most significant efforts – the start of tank waste structures will be stabilized with grout to prevent treatment. The WTP is EM’s largest and most potential surface subsidence. complex project and one of the largest civilian nuclear construction projects in the world. Over the coming decade, the 324 Building will be placed in a minimum surveillance and maintenance TANK WASTE TREATMENT configuration until remediation can be resumed at By the end 2023, DOE-ORP will complete the Low- the underlying 300-296 waste site and the building Activity Waste (LAW) Facility, Balance of Facilities can be demolished. EM will continue to evaluate the (BOF), and Analytical Laboratory (LAB) (collectively transfer of cesium and strontium capsules currently known as LBL, including direct-feed low-activity waste stored in wet storage at the Waste Encapsulation [DFLAW] and LBL facility services) to begin treating and Storage Facility to safer dry storage. LAW. Starting these facilities in the near term allows Stabilization activities at REDOX and PUREX will for treatment to begin on the most mobile form of tank place these facilities in a low-cost surveillance and waste prior to all treatment facilities being completed. maintenance configuration.

The DFLAW approach will rely on a LAW pretreatment Active groundwater remediation systems will system known as the Tank Side Cesium Removal continue operating along the River Corridor, treating (TSCR) pretreatment system that will allow tank waste about 1 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater supernatant to be treated and stored in AP Farm annually. Additionally, DOE-RL will complete critical for subsequent delivery to the WTP LAW Facility. infrastructure projects to support the Hanford Upgrades will also be completed at the Liquid Effluent mission. Retention Facility and Effluent Treatment Facility to allow receipt and treatment of the anticipated secondary liquid effluent from DFLAW operations. DOE-ORP is also completing an Analysis of

Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030

While there is a great deal of uncertainty about what may transpire between now and the distant post-2030 clean-up work, the Hanford clean-up mission, currently outlined in the TPA and other legal documents includes waste retrieval and tank closure activities, construction of additional waste treatment facilities, and extensive waste site demolition and remediation activities, including at the B Plant, PUREX, REDOX, and T Plant processing canyons.

20 A process vessel being delivered to the Effluent Management Facility, which is part of the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant being built to vitrify some of Hanford’s tank waste. The EMF is a key facility in the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste process.

Commissioning technicians review procedures in the Low-Activity Waste Facility control room, which is part of the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) being built to vitrify some of Hanford’s tank waste. Multiple facilities in the WTP are controlled from one location, increasing safety and efficiency.

21 Idaho

An aerial view of the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, which DOE is working to close by the end of this decade.

22 Idaho

Overview buried TRU waste in 5 acres of a planned 5.69 acres at the Subsurface The INL site, located in southeast Idaho, Disposal Area. was established in 1949 as the National Reactor Testing Station. The original • Completed the transfers of all mission of the INL site was to develop and EM-owned SNF at the Idaho Nuclear test civilian and defense nuclear reactor Technology and Engineering Center technologies and manage SNF. Fifty-two (INTEC) from wet to dry storage reactors – most of them first-of-a-kind facilities. – were built, including the Navy’s first • Completed treatment of all Idaho prototype nuclear propulsion plant. Of the Settlement Agreement remote- 52 reactors, four remain in operation. handled (RH) transuranic waste.

In 1951, the INL site achieved one • Completed decontamination, of the most significant scientific decommissioning, and demolition accomplishments of the century – the first (D&D) of 225 nuclear, radiological, and use of nuclear fission to produce a usable industrial facilities. quantity of electricity at the Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 1 (EBR-1). The EBR- Long-term work will include emptying and 1 is now a Registered National Historic closing the INTEC liquid waste tank farm; the Landmark open to the public. safe storage of any remaining legacy SNF not acceptable for the Office of Nuclear Energy’s The Idaho Cleanup Project is responsible missions; dispositioning calcine waste; for treating, storing and dispositioning decontaminating and decommissioning a variety of radioactive and hazardous remaining excess facilities; and completing wastes, removing and dispositioning the Comprehensive Environmental Response, targeted buried waste, removing or Compensation and Liability Act cleanup deactivating unneeded facilities, and requirements, including Test Area North managing – and ultimately removing – SNF groundwater remediation and the capping and HLW from Idaho. of the SDA. Long term work also includes operating and maintaining the facilities and Cleanup accomplishments include: infrastructure necessary to safely complete the EM mission. • Completed the processing of contact- handled (CH) transuranic debris Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 waste tied to the Idaho Settlement Agreement at the Advanced Mixed Over the coming decade, cleanup Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) for activities at Idaho will largely focus on eventual off-site disposition. completing treatment of remaining liquid sodium-bearing waste, buried waste • Completed the retrieval of transuranic exhumation, shipment of remaining waste containers placed in retrievable transuranic waste and decommissioning storage at the Transuranic Storage and closure of facilities at the Radioactive Area Retrieval Enclosure. Waste Management Complex (RWMC). • Completed exhumation of targeted,

23 RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT Generation II storage vaults at the INTEC Outdoor COMPLEX FACILITY OPERATIONS/RWMC Fuel Storage Facility (CPP-749). By the end of 2023, CLOSURE DOE will complete the transfer of the balance of By the end of 2022, DOE will complete several non-EM-owned SNF from wet to dry storage and actions at the SDA, including targeted buried waste will maintain the fuel in a safe configuration. exhumation, closure of RH LLW disposal vaults and D&D activities. By the end of 2028, DOE is Over the next decade, DOE will complete the targeting completing the off-site shipments of legacy treatment of the remaining liquid sodium-bearing CH and RH TRU waste. TRU waste shipments are waste stored at the INTEC Tank Farm. DOE expects dependent on operations and the availability of to begin radioactive waste treatment operations WIPP. at IWTU by the end of 2020 and is targeting completion of treatment by the end of 2028. To continue moving the Calcine Disposition Project IDAHO NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND forward, DOE will continue to develop and test ENGINEERING CENTER FACILITY OPERATIONS retrieval methods and equipment at the full-scale At INTEC, DOE will complete several actions related mockup of the calcine retrieval system. to stored SNF. By the end of 2023, DOE will retrieve and move the Peach Bottom Fuel from the older Generation I storage vaults to the more robust

The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit will turn about 900,000 gallons of liquid radioactive waste into a granular solid.

24 Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030 At the RWMC, remaining work would focus on completing the construction of a planned cap over the SDA (Subsurface Disposal Area) and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) closure and D&D (Decontamination and Decommissioning) of any AMWTP-related facilities along with long-term surveillance-and-maintenance (S&M). S&M activities would continue at least through 2035 for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed SNF storage sites (at Ft. St. Vrain in Colorado and the Three Mile Island-2 storage facility at INTEC). Treatment activities would continue for remote-handled mixed low-level and low-level waste. Long-term S&M activities would also continue at INTEC.

Idaho Cleanup Project workers celebrate the last shipment of spent naval fuel from underwater to dry storage.

Transuranic waste leaving Idaho for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

25 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

An aerial view of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

26 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Overview Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, • Constructed 21 groundwater and located in California, was established soil vapor extraction and treatment in 1952 and is a multi-disciplinary R&D facilities at Site 300 that are now center focusing on weapons development operational. and stewardship and homeland security. The laboratory is operated by Lawrence Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 Livermore National Security, LLC for the By the end of 2022, DOE will complete National Nuclear Security Administration demolition of Building 175 to slab on grade (NNSA). In addition to the main site, there at LLNL. Then, by the end of 2023, DOE is a remote location called Site 300 on will complete removal of the Building 280 7,000 acres in rural foothills approximately reactor at LLNL. In addition to currently 15 miles southeast of Livermore. Site 300 ongoing work on the Building 280 reactor was established in 1955 as a non-nuclear and Building 175, additional NNSA facilities explosives test facility to support the (e.g., Buildings 212, 241, 251, 280, 292, laboratory’s national security mission. 343) at LLNL are ready for decommissioning and demolition as additional funding The EM-managed LLNL Excess Facilities becomes available. The majority of activities decommissioning and demolition effort scheduled for FY 2021 and beyond for the commenced in 2018. Congress directed 300 site are in support of the development DOE to decommission and demolish the of remedial solutions for groundwater B280 Pool Type Reactor and other excess contamination at Building 812, Building 850, facilities at LLNL. and Building 865.

Cleanup accomplishments at these sites include: • Removed Building 280 ancillary facilities. • Completed the Interagency Agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to accomplish the Remaining Cleanup Building 280 (Pool Type Reactor) Scope Post-2030 reactor dismantlement and removal. There are no post-2030 • Completed the Memorandum plans associated with LLNL. of Understanding and Work Authorizations with NNSA’s M&O contractor or the lab to decommission and demolish Building 175 (MARS-E Beam Facility).

27 Los Alamos National Laboratory

Building 257, the last building at Technical Area 21, is being prepped for demolition in FY 2020.

28 Los Alamos National Laboratory

Overview Area G destined for disposal at WIPP. The waste is stored in a configuration that is The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM- protective of the environment, workers and LA) is dedicated to cleanup of legacy the public. contamination of radioactive and chemical materials and waste resulting Cleanup accomplishments include: from operations during the Manhattan Project and Cold War-era at LANL in New • Completed 31 sites located in or Mexico. EM-LA’s cleanup scope includes adjacent to the Los Alamos town-site. legacy waste remediation and disposition, • Implemented an interim pump-and- soil and groundwater remediation, and treat approach to address chromium demolition, deactivation, and disposition groundwater contamination. of excess buildings and facilities. Newly • Completed 16 TRU waste shipments generated waste (waste post-1999) at to WIPP in 2019. LANL is the responsibility of NNSA. • Completed shipment of 300 m3 of LLW Of the more than 2,100 contaminated and MLLW for offsite disposal. sites at LANL originally identified for remediation, more than half (approximately Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 1,100) have been cleaned up and closed, Over the coming decade, DOE intends ranging from small spill sites with a few to focus on addressing the groundwater cubic feet of contaminated soil to large contamination plumes, processing above- landfills encompassing several acres. ground-stored TRU waste and retrieval There are two legacy contamination of below-ground-stored TRU waste for plumes that are being characterized and off-site disposal. DOE will also work to managed by EM-LA using subsurface complete the disposition of the remaining control techniques. One plume has TRU waste from Los Alamos currently in chromium contamination and is being storage at the Waste Control Specialists actively managed by a pump-and-treat (WCS) commercial disposal site in Texas. system with reinjection, while the second Depending on the disposition approach plume has chemical constituents related to chosen, the TRU containers at WCS could early explosives work, and is undergoing be shipped to WIPP in the 2020-2025 characterization to determine potential timeframe. remediation alternatives. By the end of 2020, DOE will complete Approximately 400,000 cubic meters (m3) the Historical Properties Campaign, and of legacy radioactive waste is located finish demolition of the last building at at LANL. The majority of this waste was TA-21. By 2022, the final remedy for the buried at 26 different Material Disposal Royal Demolition Explosives plume will Areas (MDAs) dispersed throughout be determined and implemented and the the lab. Eight of these MDAs have remaining building slabs, basements, been excavated and closed. There is utility tunnels and vaults, and other below- 3 approximately 3,500 m of legacy TRU grade structures will be removed at TA-21. waste stored at Technical Area (TA)-54’s Contaminated soil will be removed from

29 the site and transported for offsite disposal with retrieval of waste placed in below ground sampling conducted to confirm compliant cleanup. configuration for long term storage for processing, In 2022, a final remedy for the chromium plume will and disposition of inventory to offsite disposal be implemented and will likely operate for several facilities. Inventory reduction is essential to allow years. demolition of structures within MDA G, and will allow permanent demolition and closure of the disposal Aggregate Area campaigns, including the Southern area. Process lines to treat the waste to meet offsite External Boundary, Pajarito Watershed, and Upper disposal facility requirements are active, but will be Watershed, will be completed in succession, modified to address the range of materials requiring beginning in 2023 and finishing in 2026, and will treatment. Retrieval of legacy waste from subsurface involve the removal of a variety of materials. The storage will also evolve over the decade to exhume latter part of the decade will see considerable focus waste containers of various sizes and content. In on completing the cleanup of MDAs H, C, AB, A and T. some cases, waste items will require size reduction so they can be packaged for transport. Over the next decade, work at TA-54 will center on processing of above-ground waste inventories,

Several TRU shipments were made from Area G at LANL to WIPP.

30 Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030

Activities associated with MDA G, MDA L, and the D&D of TA-54 are expected to extend beyond 2030.

Workers install a monitoring well in Mortandad Canyon.

31 Moab

An aerial photo of the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project’s Moab, Utah site.

32 Moab

Overview The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Cleanup accomplishments include: Action Project is located in southeastern • Increased weekly shipments Utah. The 480-acre Moab site is a former beginning in February 2019 of uranium-ore processing facility that uranium mill tailings from two operated under private ownership from shipments per week (450,000 tons 1956 to 1984. annually) to four shipments per week (900,000 tons annually). The project includes relocation of the • Disposed of a total of 10 million tons of estimated 16-million-ton pile of uranium residual radioactive material out of the mill tailings near the Colorado River original total of 16 million tons. and other contaminated material to an engineered disposal cell constructed 30 Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 miles north near Crescent Junction, Utah. The scope also includes active remediation Over the coming decade, DOE will of contaminated groundwater at the Moab continue to steadily reduce the remaining site. size of the uranium mill tailings pile. DOE expects to ship approximately 450,000 After contaminated soil, tailings, debris, tons of uranium mill tailings annually to vicinity properties, and surface and the Crescent Junction disposal site. DOE groundwater are remediated, the site also plans to continue transportation and will be transferred to LM for continued disposal of oversize debris from the Moab groundwater monitoring, and potential site. reutilization of the site. The Crescent Junction site will also be transferred to LM for monitoring of the disposal cell.

Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030

The project will continue excavating, shipping, and placing uranium mill tailings and other contaminated material in the disposal cell. Demobilization, demolition, and disposal of site infrastructure and equipment, placement of the final cover on the disposal cell, and site closure will take place. Turn-over of the Moab site for reuse, or continued control under DOE, and turn-over of the Crescent Junction site for maintenance and long-term surveillance by DOE LM will occur.

33 Nevada National Security Site

Drill rig for construction of groundwater characterization well ER-20-4 located on Pahute Mesa at the NNSS.

34 Nevada National Security Site

Overview NNSS was used from 1951 to 1992 Cleanup accomplishments include: to conduct a total of 100 atmospheric • Completed cleanup actions at the last and 828 underground nuclear weapons soils site. tests. As a result, some groundwater, • Disposed of approximately 1 million surface soils, and industrial facilities ft³ of classified and LLW and MLLW. were contaminated on the NNSS and the surrounding Nevada Test and Training • Maximized the capacity of a permitted Range (NTTR). cell which allowed for an extra 125,000 ft³ of MLLW to be disposed of before In accordance with the Federal Facility permanent closure. Agreement and Consent Order (FFACO), EM is responsible for environmental Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 corrective actions at 148 surface and Over the coming decade, EM will complete near-surface soil locations, 1,013 industrial its current scope of cleanup activities at locations, and groundwater contaminated the NNSS. by historical nuclear testing. Environmental corrective actions have been completed GROUNDWATER/SOIL REMEDIATION at all the surface soils locations, and there In 2020, the Office of Legacy Management are two industrial facilities remaining to be will take responsibility for long-term addressed. monitoring of FFACO sites located on the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) where Concerning groundwater contamination, environmental corrective actions were the FFACO strategy agreed upon with the completed. State of Nevada requires the identification of contaminant boundaries, restricted Also in 2020, long-term monitoring access to contaminated groundwater, activities are expected to begin for the and the implementation of a long- Rainier Mesa/Shoshone Mountain; and term monitoring program. Because of Yucca Flat/Climax Mine groundwater the vast and complex geology of the characterization areas. NNSS, groundwater contamination is grouped into characterization areas At the Pahute Mesa groundwater based on location and similar geology. characterization area, the Corrective One of the groundwater characterization Action Investigation phase (including areas has already been transitioned completion of the Flow and Transport into the final “closure” phase of the Model, External Peer Review, and FFACO groundwater strategy, long-term regulatory approval of the Corrective monitoring; another two will transition Action Plan) will be completed by the end to long-term monitoring in 2020; and of 2023. By the end of 2027, the Model investigations are ongoing in the last area Evaluation Phase will be completed for to fully understand the nature and extent Pahute Mesa to include drilling five model of contamination. evaluation wells, data analysis, flow and transport model adjustments, and

35 regulatory approval for the final phase. By the end of are included in the FFACO. 2028, the Pahute Mesa area will transition into long- term monitoring. Long-term monitoring of the FFACO corrective action sites on the NNSS will remain the INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES responsibility of the EM Nevada Program until all FFACO-required environmental corrective actions on The two remaining industrial facilities are the Engine the NNSS are completed in 2028. At that time, any Maintenance Assembly and Disassembly (EMAD) sites requiring future post-closure monitoring and facility and Test Cell C Ancillary Buildings and use restrictions per the FFACO will be managed by Structures, which consist of eight sites requiring the NNSA. cleanup. By the end of 2022, EM plans to receive regulatory approval on the corrective action strategy for the EMAD and Test Cell C sites. In 2025, EM WASTE DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES will have addressed the required regulatory actions The NNSS will continue to support cleanup activities to close Test Cell C sites. The current plan is to across the DOE complex by providing disposal demolish the buildings to grade with appropriate capacity and services for up to 1.2 million cubic disposal of the debris, and to close in place any feet annually of LLW, MLLW, and classified waste contamination located below grade. In 2027, EM will through 2030. complete similar regulatory actions to close EMAD. The completion of environmental correction actions at EMAD and Test Cell C sites will result in the demolition and cleanup of all industrial facilities that

Test Cell C facility (part of the historic Nuclear Rocket Development Station) at the NNSS. EM Nevada plans to complete environmental corrective actions by FY 2025.

36 Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030

EM currently anticipates a need for the ability to dispose of waste at the NNSS beyond 2030.

Low-level radioactive waste disposal activities at the NNSS Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex.

37 Oak Ridge

EM completed demolition of the Poplar Creek facilities at the East Tennessee Technology Park in 2019.

38 Oak Ridge

Overview DOE’s largest inventory of high-risk excess contaminated facilities (former research The Oak Ridge site, located in eastern reactors, isotope production facilities, and Tennessee, was one of the three original former process buildings), eliminate the sites in the Manhattan Project. The U.S. site’s inventory of uranium-233, remediate Army Corps of Engineers began acquiring areas with dense mercury-contamination, land in the area in October 1942. By and provide valuable real estate to SC and March 1943, 56,000 acres were sealed NNSA missions. behind fences and major industrial facilities were under construction. The K-25 and Cleanup accomplishments include: Y-12 plants were built to explore different methods to enrich uranium, while the X-10 • Demolished all Poplar Creek site was established as a pilot plant for the Facilities. These were the most Graphite Reactor and to explore how to contaminated buildings remaining produce plutonium. at ETTP and were the last support facilities associated with the former Throughout the following decades the gaseous diffusion process. three sites – K-25 (present day ETTP), • Demolished Building K-1037; at X-10 (present day Oak Ridge National 380,000 square feet it was the largest Laboratory (ORNL)), and Y-12 (present day remaining building at ETTP. Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12)) – • Prepared the remaining uranium-233 purified isotopes, conducted advanced inventory stored at ORNL for disposal. research, manufactured weapons components and enriched uranium. These • Commenced construction of the activities created environmental legacies Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment that placed the Oak Ridge Reservation Facility. This vital capability will on the U.S. Environmental Protection open the door for the demolition Agency’s National Priorities list in 1989. of Y-12’s large, deteriorated, mercury-contaminated facilities The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental and subsequent soil remediation Management (OREM) is the landlord by providing a mechanism to limit of ETTP, and it is responsible for potential mercury releases into the environmental cleanup at Y-12 and Upper East Fork Poplar Creek. ORNL. OREM has achieved significant • Retrieved nearly 10,000 pounds of risk reduction across the Oak Ridge mercury from old equipment at Y-12, Reservation and is nearing the completion preventing a potential environmental of environmental cleanup at ETTP. This release. accomplishment will save millions of dollars in annual landlord, maintenance, Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 and oversight costs that could be DOE is on the cusp of completing all redirected to accelerate future cleanup. remaining demolition work at the ETTP. Over the next 10 years, DOE will also continue With completion in sight at ETTP, OREM is to make significant progress on cleanup currently laying the foundation for ramping activities at Y-12 and ORNL to help support up major cleanup operations at ORNL the important missions of the NNSA and and Y-12. These projects will address SC, as well as eliminating one of the largest

39 remaining security risks at ORNL. per minute, and it will include a two-million-gallon storage tank to collect stormwater. Also in 2025, OREM By the end of 2020, all major demolition projects will be will finish processing, downblending, and disposing completed at ETTP. This will account for the removal the remaining inventory of uranium-233 stored at of nearly 13 million square feet of buildings, and it will ORNL. Finishing this removal is EM’s highest priority at mark the first time in the world an entire enrichment ORNL because it constitutes a Category I quantity of complex has been removed. DOE is slated to complete highly enriched fissile material and drives the security any remaining soil and groundwater remediation at posture of the site. The completion of this project will ETTP in 2024. The majority of land will be transferred to significantly reduce risks and security costs, and it will the community for industrial redevelopment, while the enable deactivation of a Manhattan Project-era facility smaller stewardship areas will be transferred to LM. located in the heart of ORNL.

In 2021, demolition will be completed on the remaining By 2026, all of the processing and shipments of Oak buildings in Y-12’s Biology Complex, which span more Ridge’s inventory of legacy TRU debris waste to the than 320,000 square feet. This project will eliminate five WIPP will be completed. This inventory includes both high-risk excess contaminated facilities from the DOE CH and RH waste. national listing, and will open land for national security missions. In 2022, DOE is scheduled to complete Currently, DOE is scheduled to complete construction mockup testing for sludge processing. This involves on the first phase of the Environmental Management constructing a Sludge Processing Mockup Test Facility Disposal Facility in the mid-2020s. This crucial that will assist in technology testing and maturation capability will provide the onsite waste disposal related to future processing of Oak Ridge’s inventory of capacity for lower activity level waste and is needed to sludge TRU waste. complete cleanup in Oak Ridge. It will accept the LLW generated from cleanup at ORNL and Y-12, and it is By 2024, OREM will resume deactivation of major anticipated to avoid more than $700 million in costs facilities at ORNL and Y-12. These projects will that would be required if all of the waste is disposed of eliminate risks and clear land for science and national off-site. security missions to meet the needs of the nation. Currently, those two sites have approximately 220 excess, contaminated facilities.

In 2025, construction of the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility will be completed. When operational, the facility will be able to treat 3,000 gallons of water

Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030 Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030 At Oak Ridge, the remaining work will focus on completing cleanup at ORNL and Y-12. ThatAt Oak includes Ridge, deactivatingthe remaining and work demolishing will focus allon ofcompleting the remaining cleanup excess, at ORNL contaminated and Y-12. facilities,That includes remediating deactivating soil and and groundwater, demolishing alland of addressing the remaining source excess, contamination. contaminated OREM willfacilities, also work remediating to complete soil and the groundwater,processing of and530,000 addressing gallons source of TRU contamination. sludge and operate OREM thewill program’salso work towaste complete treatment the processing and disposal of facilities.530,000 gallons of TRU sludge and operate the program’s waste treatment and disposal facilities. 40 Fissionable material handlers open a canister containing uranium-233 to begin the extracting medical isotopes that will be used for cancer research.

Workers demolish Building K-1037 at the East Tennessee Technology Park. Spanning 380,000 square feet, it was the largest building remaining at the site before its removal.

41 Paducah

An aerial view of Paducah.

42 Paducah

Overview In 1950, the Atomic Energy Commission, Cleanup accomplishments include: a precursor agency to DOE, selected • Initiated deactivation activities at a 3,556-acre tract of government- Building C-333, one of the large owned land near Paducah, Kentucky, in process buildings, including the McCracken County, as the location to removal and disposition of asbestos construct a second gaseous diffusion cell housing panels, disposition of uranium enrichment plant (GDP) to support process gas components, removal of U.S. national security needs. The Paducah hazardous materials and reduction in GDP enriched uranium from 1952 to 2013 the fire loading and characterization and was the last government-owned of all loose process gas equipment on uranium enrichment facility operating in the ground floor. the U.S. The Paducah GDP produced low- • Processed 3,889 cylinders at the enriched uranium originally as feedstock DUF6 conversion facility through for nuclear weapons and later for November 2019. commercial nuclear power plants. Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 Environmental cleanup of the Paducah GDP began in 1988 when groundwater At Paducah, work over the next decade will contamination was discovered off the DOE focus on remediating a trichloroethylene property. Environmental cleanup includes groundwater contamination plume, along with remediation of groundwater, surface water, activities to prepare the site’s former uranium soil, lagoons and burial grounds. All of enrichment process buildings for demolition. the facilities and buildings (over 500), along with their associated slabs, will be Over the next decade, DOE will perform removed and/or remediated. fieldwork associated with the characterization and remediation of the C-400 Complex The Paducah site is also home to one Operable Unit (OU), the highest environmental of two DOE DUF6 conversion plants. priority at the site. The C-400 Complex (city DUF6 was a by-product from the block) includes the C-400 Cleaning Building, uranium enrichment operations at the which utilized trichloroethylene (TCE) for three enrichment plants in Oak Ridge, cleaning equipment. The Complex is the Tennessee; Portsmouth, Ohio; and primary source of the TCE groundwater Paducah, Kentucky. DOE has a total contamination that was discovered off inventory of approximately 67,000 steel the DOE property in 1988. The Remedial cylinders at the Portsmouth and Paducah Investigation/Feasibility Work Plan has sites. At Paducah, the DUF6 conversion been approved by the U.S. Environmental facility began operation in 2011. Protection Agency, and the remedial investigation of the entire C-400 city block for all media and contaminants has begun.

43 DOE will work with federal and state environmental These activities include hazard removal (including freon, regulators to perform remedial investigation activities, chemicals, fire hazards, etc.), characterization of the developing and reaching consensus on final remedial components within the facility, characterization and actions, and preparing and implementing the remedial disposition of converters and select uranium deposits, action work plans. By the end of 2021, remedial utility isolation, conversion of wet sprinkler system to investigation fieldwork activities will be completed at the a dry hybrid system and other actions to prepare the C-400 Complex. The C-400 Complex OU Record of C-333 Process Building for demolition. Decision, which details the remedial actions, is scheduled for issuance in 2024. At the Paducah DUF6 conversion facility, approximately 11,500 cylinders will be converted, and approximately 22 By the end of 2027, DOE also plans to complete million gallons of hydrogen fluoride will be shipped off-site deactivation work at the C-333 Process Building. for commercial use by 2030.

Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030

Beyond 2030, site activities will include the design and construction of an On- Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF), if selected as the waste disposal alternative, and continued deactivation and demolition of the more than 500 GDP facilities. Completion of design for the final cleanup of C-400 is anticipated to occur in the 2031 timeframe. Additionally, the remaining environmental cleanup activities related to groundwater, surface water, soils lagoons, and burial grounds will still need to be completed. DOE expects to complete disposition of the entire inventory of DUF6 located at Paducah by 2057. DOE currently projects completing cleanup activities at Paducah in 2065.

44 An excavator removes a section of the mezzanine floor from the C-410 Feed Plant complex. The nearly 200,000 square-feet C-410 complex was demolished to slab in 2015.

Rail cars from the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride conversion plant are staged to be shipped offsite.

45 Portsmouth

An aerial view of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

46 Portsmouth

Overview DUF6 conversion facility began operation in 2010. In August 1952, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), a precursor agency Cleanup accomplishments include: to DOE, selected a tract of land in the • Initiated preliminary demolition Ohio Valley along the Scioto River in Pike activities at the X-326 Building, one of County, Ohio, for the site of the Portsmouth the three former uranium enrichment Gaseous Diffusion Plant, the third of three process buildings. gaseous diffusion enrichment plants in the • Began deactivation activities at the United States. In 1956, construction of the X-333 Building, the second of the plant was completed, and the plant began three former uranium enrichment enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. In process buildings. the 1960s, Portsmouth’s mission changed • Initiated construction for the to focus on producing fuel for commercial first three cells and associated nuclear power plants and other national infrastructure for the OSWDF. security applications. • Processed 2,487 cylinders at the An extensive environmental cleanup DUF6 conversion plant through program began at the 3,777-acre site in November 2019. 1989, with D&D activities initiated in 2011. The DOE near-term focus is the D&D of Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 415 facilities including the three former Over the next decade, DOE will make uranium enrichment process buildings (X- significant progress in addressing the 326, X-333, and X-330) each measuring three former uranium enrichment process approximately 33 acres. The site also buildings at the site, with demolition of two continues to maintain utility operations, to be completed in that timeframe. monitor air and water emissions, and operate several groundwater treatment Preparations are underway for the start facilities to address legacy groundwater of demolition of the X-326 Building, contamination caused by former plant the first of three process buildings, operations. including removal of obstructions around the building perimeter, Limited Area The Portsmouth site is also home to one reconfiguration, and expansion of the site of DOE’s two DUF6 conversion plants. water treatment capability. Over the next DUF6 was a by-product from the uranium decade, DOE will complete demolition enrichment operations at the three of the X-326 process building and the enrichment plants in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; X-333 process building, and complete Portsmouth, Ohio; and Paducah, Kentucky. deactivation of the X-330 process building. DOE has a total inventory of approximately 67,000 steel cylinders at the Portsmouth In early 2021, DOE expects to begin and Paducah sites. At Portsmouth, the utilizing the OSWDF for demolition debris

47 from the X-326 Process Building. To support this effort, excavation of one of the groundwater plumes will be completed to provide fill for a portion of the X-326 demolition debris. Construction of the first three cells of the OSWDF are scheduled for completion by 2022 and will be utilized for all of the demolition debris from the X-326 Process Building. Construction of the next three cells of the OSWDF as well as the remaining infrastructure will also be initiated and utilized for disposition of debris from X-333 Process Building demolition scheduled to begin in the 2025 timeframe.

Based on cell capacity need for X-330 process building demolition and Balance of Plant facilities, four to six additional OSWDF cell liners will be constructed (10-12 total) with the seventh scheduled to be completed in 2029. Additionally, over the next decade, three landfills will be relocated, and an additional plume will be excavated to provide fill materials for the demolition debris from the remainder of the X-326 and all of the debris from X-333 demolition.

At the Portsmouth DUF6 conversion facility, approximately 9,500 cylinders will be converted and approximately 18 million gallons of hydrogen fluoride (HF) will be shipped off-site for commercial use by 2030. Remaining Cleanup Scope Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030 Post-2030 Beyond 2030, the last three liners ofBeyond the OSWDF 2030, thewill lastbe constructedthree liners toof thesupport OSWDF demolition will be constructedof the X-330 Processto support Building demolition and remainingof the X-330 approximatelyProcess Building 400 and balance remaining of plant facilities.approximately Final 400soil restorationBalance of Plantwill befacilities. completed Final with soil therestoration excavation will ofbe thecompleted remaining with two the plumes excavation and twoof the landfills. remaining Cleanup two plumes activities and at Portsmouthtwo landfills. are Cleanup anticipated activities to be at completedPortsmouth in are 2038. anticipated Additionally, to be DOEcompleted expects in 2038.to complete Additionally, dispositionDOE expects of tothe complete entire inventory ofdisposition DUF6 located of the at entire Portsmouth inventory by 2038.of DUF6 located at Portsmouth by 2038.

48 The On Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF) is currently under construction. The OSWDF is specifically engineered and built to safely accept contaminated debris from the gaseous diffusion buildings at Portsmouth.

As part of demolition preparations at Portsmouth, crews are constructing a waste water treatment facility to handle runoff from rain as well as dust suppression activities associated with tearing down the massive uranium enrichment process buildings and smaller support facilities. When operational, it can treat up to 400 gallons a minute, removing contaminants and releasing water safely into the local streams and tributaries.

49 Sandia National Laboratory

Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico

50 Sandia National Laboratory

Overview status from NMED and have been transferred to the laboratory’s landlord, the EM’s cleanup activities at the Sandia NNSA. National Laboratories takes place at the SNL section located on Kirtland Air Cleanup accomplishments include: Force Base, adjacent to Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Sandia National • Completed work at 312 out of a total Laboratories-New Mexico Environmental of 315 sites identified as needing soil Restoration (ER) Operations Project scope and groundwater remediation. includes the remediation of inactive waste disposal and release sites, along with the Planned Cleanup Scope characterization and remediation of three 2020-2030 plumes of contaminated groundwater. Beginning in 2020, DOE will conduct two years of characterization activities and The regulatory driver for completing install up to eight groundwater monitoring this work is the Compliance Order on wells in the Burn Site Groundwater (BSG) Consent signed in 2004 by DOE, the Areas of Concern (AOC) section of the Sandia Corporation, and the New Mexico laboratory. Four of the eight wells are Environment Department (NMED). DOE’s required, and up to four contingency wells approach is to work closely with NMED are scoped to ensure installation of a clean to complete Resource Conservation and downgradient well. DOE plans to transition Recovery Act (RCRA) corrective actions this section of the laboratory to long-term at the last three ER sites using cost stewardship by 2030. effective approaches that meet regulatory requirements. In 2023, EM plans to transition the Tijeras Arroyo Groundwater (TAG) Areas of The remaining cleanup scope includes Concern (AOC) to long-term stewardship. three areas with contaminated DOE will also work over the next decade groundwater in various stages of to perform corrective action activities at characterization and remedy selection. the Technical Area V Groundwater AOC. All soil sites in Sandia’s ER Baseline have received Corrective Action Complete

Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030

In 2031, DOE will complete all the corrective action activities at the Technical Area-V Groundwater AOC and transition the section to long-term stewardship.

51 Savannah River Site

The Salt Waste Processing Facility will significantly enhance DOE’s ability to treat tank waste at the site.

52 Savannah River Site

Overview waste cleanup objectives and plays an equally important role supporting NNSA The Savannah River Site (SRS), an through its work in tritium R&D, operations approximately 310-square-mile-site support, stockpile stewardship, nuclear located in South Carolina, focused on the non-proliferation, and other critical national production of plutonium and tritium for use security programs. in the manufacture of nuclear weapons from its inception in the early 1950s until Cleanup accomplishments include: the end of the Cold War. In 1992, the focus • Emptied and closed eight at SRS turned to environmental cleanup, underground waste tanks. nuclear materials management and research and development (R&D) activities. • Produced more than 4,200 canisters of radioactive vitrified waste. Today, SRS is a complex site run by • Completed construction and cold EM and host to NNSA. DOE works in commissioning of the Salt Waste partnership with multiple contractors in Processing Facility, a key component technically sophisticated nuclear and in the site liquid waste program. non-nuclear facilities. Cleanup activities at • Completed Saltstone Disposal Unit 6 SRS include addressing 35 million gallons ahead of schedule and under budget. of radioactive liquid processing waste stored in 43 underground tanks; surplus • Removed one metric ton of plutonium. plutonium downblending and disposition as • Processed Canadian liquid Highly TRU waste to WIPP; disposition of highly Enriched Uranium target material enriched uranium and processing of foreign shipments, High Flux Isotope Reactor and domestic research reactor receipts; cores and four batches of Material facility decommissioning and demolition Test Reactor Fuel. and soil and groundwater remediation. • Completed material-at-risk removal activities from Building 235-F, a To date, 293 facilities out of 1,127 have former plutonium fabrication facility. been deactivated and decommissioned, • Completed D-Area Ash Project ahead and 410 out of 515 areas have been of schedule and under budget, remediated. Notably, collaboration which resulted in the removal and among SRS entities and state and consolidation of ash into an on-site federal regulators resulted in the in-situ landfill, remediating 60 acres. decommissioning of P and R Area Reactors in 2011 – the first in the DOE complex. • Completed the removal and Finally, the operational footprint of SRS has disposition of coal ash at Dunbarton been reduced by 85 percent. Bay Coal Ash Basin Phase 1, resulting in 29,600 tons of ash dispositioned. For NNSA, SRS processes and stores nuclear materials in support of national defense and U.S. nuclear nonproliferation efforts. EM is also responsible for the SRNL, located at the site. SRNL assists EM in achieving the nation’s legacy nuclear

53 Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 years, the K-Area facilities will continue to down- blend and disposition both EM and NNSA surplus Over the coming decade, DOE will significantly plutonium through capital upgrades and eventual enhance its ability to tackle the largest remaining shipment to WIPP. Shipment of down-blended environmental risk at SRS – radioactive tank material to WIPP is expected to begin in 2021. waste – with the startup of new waste treatment facilities. DOE will also make continued progress The L-Area facilities will continue to provide wet in addressing nuclear materials stored at SRS, and storage of spent nuclear fuel received as part of the complete disposition of remaining TRU waste. domestic and foreign research reactor fuel receipt programs. The H-Canyon chemical separations LIQUID WASTE PROGRAM facility will continue to process nuclear materials and The Liquid Waste Program will achieve significant spent nuclear fuel (including Test Reactor Material risk reduction through continued stabilization and and High Flux Isotope Reactor fuel) to support immobilization of the high activity fraction of the disposition of these materials. The K-Area facilities waste in a glass waste form and immobilization of will continue to provide long-term storage of special the low-level fraction of the waste as a saltstone nuclear material owned by both EM and NNSA. waste form. The SWPF will begin hot commissioning in 2020 and will process up to 9 million gallons of SOLID WASTE PROGRAM waste per year after the initial year of operation, The Solid Waste Program will continue to safely enhanced through implementation of the Next characterize, store and disposition site-generated Generation Solvent. By 2030, it is expected wastes in compliance with applicable regulations that nearly all of the salt waste inventory will be and requirements. All remaining SRS legacy TRU processed. waste (approximately 500 cubic meters) will be disposed of at WIPP. DOE will continue to perform environmental analyses in an effort toward the use of the Department’s interpretation of the term “high-level waste” for a ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION, DEACTIVATION AND DECOMMISSIONING waste stream at SRS. This waste stream, recycle wastewater from the Defense Waste Processing Environmental Remediation will continue to clean Facility (DWPF), is undergoing analyses to determine up contaminated soils, groundwater, streams (and if it could be solidified and disposed of at an off-site associated wetlands) and legacy waste sites. EM is commercial disposal facility. committed to reducing risk and protecting groundwater aquifers and surface waters from the spread of Substantial progress toward tank closure will contamination by addressing sources of contamination continue with 22 of the 51 underground tanks being using an area completion approach. Examples include closed. By 2030, the DWPF will have produced installation of a Reactive Barrier Wall in P Area to treat more than 7,100 canisters of vitrified radioactive solvent-contaminated groundwater; and the remediation waste (more 85 percent of the anticipated total). of a former Oil Seepage Basin in G Area. The Liquid Waste Program will continue to support receipt of waste from H-Canyon. In addition, an integral part of the cleanup mission is the D&D of legacy facilities constructed in support of NUCLEAR MATERIALS DISPOSITION past nuclear materials production, such as the Process PROGRAM Heat Exchanger Repair Facility (also known as the Ford Building) and the Cask Car Repair Facility. SRS will The near-term Nuclear Materials Disposition continue to operate and maintain soil and groundwater Program strategic objectives are to continue remedial systems; and conduct post-closure and disposition of legacy material stored in L- and post-Record of Decision (ROD) care, surveillance, and K-Area, as well as continued surveillance and maintenance of 73 closed areas (approximately 1,000 maintenance (S&M) of excess, non-operating acres). nuclear facilities awaiting D&D. Over the next 10

54 SRNL Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030 Construction of the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative (AMC) facility will allow the The Liquid Waste program will start closing Department to focus on developing and its operations after SWPF completes adapting safer and more cost-effective treatment operations for the remaining technology, facilities, and expertise for nuclear salt waste and operational closure of the chemical and materials manufacturing to tackle tank farms is completed. The Liquid Waste the remaining challenges in the cleanup of Program cleanup mission is planned for radioactive and chemical waste resulting from completion in 2037, and the S&M of the Cold War activities and nuclear research. The vitrification canisters in storage will be DOE Laboratory Operations Board review transferred to the Solid Waste Program. of SRNL infrastructure concluded that two- thirds of the SRNL facilities are substandard or The remaining Nuclear Material clean-up inadequate for modern technology development. scope will be to complete deactivation and The AMC facility strengthens current efforts to turn over for decommissioning all facilities consolidate and modernize Laboratory facilities other than K-Area facilities. Operations to address these inadequacies. in K-Area will continue, particularly with the surplus plutonium disposition mission The AMC facility will provide accessible, and all facilities will be deactivated at the modern, commercially viable and flexible conclusion of the disposition of special laboratory space for SRNL to collaborate with nuclear material. industry and academia to translate a range of proven and potential advanced manufacturing Newly generated wastes resulting from the technologies from the commercial chemical and EM cleanup program will continue to be manufacturing sectors into DOE processes, disposed as the waste is generated through plans and missions to significantly improve risk the EM mission. As the Nuclear Materials management, enhance worker and public safety, and Liquid Waste Programs complete their reduce costs and shave years off the legacy missions, the Environmental Remediation, waste cleanup schedule. D&D Program will ramp up its program to provide for remediation of approximately 100 legacy waste units and D&D of over 800 industrial, nuclear and radioactive facilities.

Operators move fuel along in L Area Disassembly Basin after completing spent nuclear fuel travel modifications. The modifications allow movement of spent nuclear fuel vertically, instead of horizontally, and will realize a 25 percent efficiency gain for cask processing.

55 Separations Process Research Unit

Building G2 was demolished in 2016 at the inactive Separations Process Research Unit site.

56 Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU)

Overview in building sumps and some of the SPRU processing equipment. The Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) site is located at the Knolls Atomic Cleanup accomplishments at these Power Laboratory in New York State. sites include: SPRU is an inactive pilot plant that was used to research and develop chemical • Demolished and removed Buildings processes to separate plutonium from G2 and H2. other radioactive material. As a result of operations, contamination occurred at two Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 buildings and interconnecting pipe tunnels, as well as approximately 30 acres of land EM will complete the removal of the F-Yard where waste containers were managed. Equipment and characterization of the Mohawk River contamination. Cleanup activities at SPRU to date have resulted in removal of the nuclear facilities (including the sub-grade building foundations and tank vaults), remediation of land areas, shipment of the resulting waste to the appropriate off-site disposal facilities, and transfer of the areas back to the Office of Naval Reactors. All site physical work finished in summer 2019. A storage facility containing 24 containers of TRU waste remains at the site. This waste was generated from removal of sediments

Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030

There are no post-2030 plans associated with SPRU.

57 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

WIPP continues to be the cornerstone of EM’s transuranic waste cleanup efforts.

58 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Overview Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 WIPP is the nation’s only repository for Much of the work to be performed at the disposal of TRU waste generated WIPP over the next decade will focus on as a result of atomic energy defense necessary infrastructure improvements to activities. WIPP is located 33 miles ensure the facility can continue to play its southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, in important role in the EM complex for the the Chihuahuan Desert, far from major long-term. population centers. The waste disposal rooms are located nearly one-half mile SITE INFRASTRUCTURE below the surface (2,150 feet) in a deep IMPROVEMENTS geologic salt bed formed 250 million years By the end of 2023, a set of key ago. Construction of WIPP started in the infrastructure projects will be completed, early 1980s. The facility began operation improving WIPP capabilities in mining in 1999 and celebrated 20 years of and waste emplacement. These include operations in 2019. the new Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS), which The WIPP Land Withdrawal Act (LWA), will provide 540,000 cubic feet per Pub. L. 102-579 as amended by Pub. L. minute of HEPA-filtered ventilation to 104-201, limits the amount of TRU waste the underground, allowing concurrent that can be disposed of in the repository mining, waste emplacement, and ground to 6.2 million cubic feet. Approximately control operations throughout the life of 69,000 cubic meters (m3) of TRU waste, the facility. In addition, the new Utility or about 39% of the LWA TRU volume limit Shaft will provide a new air intake shaft to has been emplaced in the underground support the SSCVS and facilitate mining repository to date. WIPP is currently additional panels. The new Utility Shaft will anticipated to operate beyond 2050. also provide a shaft to house a new, larger capacity hoisting capability to transport Cleanup accomplishments include: salt and materials from the repository to • Removed TRU waste from 22 of 30 the surface. sites. • Conducted more than 13,500 shipments safely to date.

59 Additional site infrastructure improvements to be WASTE EMPLACEMENT completed over the next decade include: EM expects to complete mining activities in Panel 8 by early 2022. • Recapitalization of key safety systems.

• Replacement/refurbishment of shaft and hoist It is anticipated that over the next 10 years systems. approximately 25,000 cubic meters of TRU waste • Upgrades to monitoring and site network might be emplaced at WIPP. systems. • Electrical substation replacements. • Additional backup generators.

Construction of a new, permanent ventilation system is one of several capital improvement projects that are ongoing at WIPP.

60 Usage of the TRUPACT-III packaging resumed in 2019, allowing EM facilities like the Savannah River Site to safely transport large-sized defense transuranic waste in a single shipping cask.

Remaining Scope Post-2030

WIPP will continue mining and waste Work continued in late 2019 on a bypass road that emplacement operations to dispose of will allow non-WIPP traffic to be re-routed around a total of 6.2 million cubic feet of TRU the transuranic waste repository, making it safer waste generated as a result of atomic for employees traveling to the facility. energy defense activities.

61 West Valley Demonstration Project

The Main Plant Process Building operated as a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant from 1966 to 1972. During its six years of operations, the plant generated approximately 600,000 gallons of liquid high-level radioactive waste, which was eventually vitrified.

62 West Valley Demonstration Project

Overview disposal. The West Valley Demonstration Project • Dispose of low-level radioactive waste (WVDP) is located at the Western New (LLW) and transuranic (TRU) waste York Nuclear Service Center (WNYNSC), produced by the HLW’s solidification a 3,338-acre site 30 miles south of processes. Buffalo, New York. The site is owned by • Decontaminate and decommission the New York State Energy Research the tanks and other facilities used at the and Development Authority (NYSERDA) WNYNSC in which the HLW was solidified, and is home to the only commercial the facilities used in the waste solidification spent nuclear fuel reprocessing facility effort, and any material and hardware used to operate in the United States. In in connection with the WVDP. 1962, Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS) entered into agreements with the Atomic The WVDP Act prohibits DOE from taking Energy Commission (AEC) and New title to the waste, real property, or facilities York State to construct, license, and at the WNYNSC. operate the commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. NFS built and operated DOE completed solidifying the HLW into the plant and two waste burial grounds canisters in 2002. The resulting 278 from 1963 to 1972. NFS processed 640 canisters of vitrified HLW are currently metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and stored onsite, pending availability of a generated over 600,000 gallons of liquid federal repository. Since 1998, DOE has high-level waste (HLW). In 1976, NFS been disposing of LLW; processing and exercised its contractual right to yield the packaging both CH and RH Greater- WNYNSC’s responsibility back to New than-Class-C (GTCC)-like waste; and York State and currently NYSERDA holds deactivating, decontaminating, and title and manages it. removing facilities used in the process of solidification of the HLW. In 1980, Congress passed the WVDP Act. The WVDP Act requires the U.S. In 2010, DOE and NYSERDA issued a Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct joint Final Environmental Impact Statement a HLW management demonstration (FEIS) that analyzed the potential project at the WNYNSC for purposes of environmental impacts of reasonable demonstrating solidification techniques alternatives to complete the WVDP which may be used for preparing HLW for cleanup pursuant to the WVDP Act and disposal. The WVDP Act directed DOE to: the decommissioning and/or long-term • Solidify the HLW in a suitable form for stewardship of the WNYNSC. In that same transportation and disposal. year, DOE issued a Record of Decision • Develop containers suitable for the in which DOE decided to implement a disposal of the HLW. phased decision-making approach for • Transport, as soon as feasible, the decommissioning the site. The first phase solidified waste to a federal repository for covers decommissioning and removal

63 of certain facilities and areas, which includes soil Cleanup Highlights 2020-2030 remediation activities. Work at West Valley over the coming decade will focus on completing remaining facility The second phase, for which DOE has not yet decommissioning activities, including demolition made a decision, would involve decommissioning of the last remaining major building – the former remaining facilities and areas pursuant to the WVDP Main Plant Process Building – as well as reaching Act, including the four underground waste tanks agreement with state regulators on paths forward and decommissioning of the NRC-licensed Disposal for remaining cleanup activities. Area.

Over the next decade, DOE will complete soil Cleanup accomplishments include the following: remediation and facility decommissioning activities, • Relocated 278 vitrified waste canisters to a though completion could be impacted by a lack new on-site dry cask storage area. of disposal options for GTCC-like waste. By • Dispositioned all legacy LLW. September 2023, DOE expects to complete demolition of the Main Plant Process Building. In • Demolished the Vitrification facility and 25 addition, demolition activities will be completed at other support buildings. the remaining two ancillary support buildings, and • Deactivated 98% of the Main Plant Process three remaining excess facilities. Building in preparation for demolition in 2020. Between 2024 and 2030, DOE will complete the decommissioning of the below-grade portions of the Main Plant Process Building and Vitrification Facility, as well as the radioactive water treatment system, including four active lagoons and one closed lagoon. EM will need an identified GTCC-like waste disposal option by 2025 to allow the demolition of all GTCC- like waste storage and processing facilities, such as the Remote Handled Waste Facility, and related support facilities, by 2030.

The West Valley Demonstration Project is a radioactive waste management and decommissioning project at the site of the only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to have operated in the United States.

64 Workers begin demolishing a former utility room extension building at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project. It was one of seven support buildings of the Main Plant Process Building. Three of those structures remain and are scheduled for demolition.

Remaining Cleanup Scope Post-2030 Work at West Valley post-2030 will focus on DOE and NYSERDA intended integrated decisions for a path forward on the disposal of waste and completing the cleanup of the waste tank farm two waste burial grounds, and long-term site stewardship. DOE and NYSERDA intend to make an integrated decision on the path forward for these activities by 2023. In addition, some facility demolition activities may remain to be completed if a GTCC-like waste disposal option is not identified by 2025. A view of debris following completion DOE will also work to identify a disposal of demolition of the former utility pathway for the stored canisters of room extension building. vitrified HLW.

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