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Fall 2017 • Decontamination & Decommissioning • Environmental Remediation • 13th Annual Buyers Guide Your Partner for Successful D&D Project Highlights at Zion Nuclear Station Licensee 10CFR50 Appendix B Program implementation Disposal of 22,390 Curies of Class B & C waste Packaging and transfer of 460,000 Ci of Greater-Than-Class-C (GTCC) waste to four dry storage casks at the ISFSI Off-site removal and disposal of all large components Reactor Vessel Internals Segmentation • Utilized mechanical cutting to avoid significant secondary waste creation and eliminate the significant radiological concerns experienced in previous D&D projects • Most cost-effective vessel internals segmentation project to date • Optimized cutting and waste loading campaigns to minimize Class B & C waste costs • Worked both units in parallel to stay off a critical path and not interfere with spent fuel loading Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) • Industry record-setting cask loading campaign (61 casks in 52 weeks) • Largest D&D ISFSI site in the U.S. to date • Extra effort (fuel bale repairs) expanded to ensure ultimate compliance with TBD DOE requirements • First modern D&D ISFSI Security Command Center to be accepted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission www.energysolutions.com Volume 24, Number 2 Fall 2017 Decontamination & Decommissioning Demolishing Hanford’s PFP �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 18 Decommissioning work nears the end for the Plutonium Finishing Plant, once the final step in the site’s production of plutonium. A New Graphical Dismantling Process Simulation Technology for Flexible D&D Planning � � � � � � � � � 26 Developing the use of virtual manufacturing technologies in nuclear decommissioning. The New Decommissioning Rules � � � � � � � � � � � � � 29 The NRC is amending its regulations for decommissioning power reactors with the goal of having a new rule by 2019. Costing for Decommissioning � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 33 The NEA continues to engage in the discussion of better estimating the costs of nuclear D&D projects. Environmental Remediation Savannah River’s Passive Groundwater Remediation �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 36 Actively pursuing passive technologies for treating groundwater is paying off for DOE contractors. A Forgotten Legacy: The Former Burris Park Field Station �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 40 A former research site contaminated with Sr-90 is being maintained by the DOE’s Office of Legacy Management. Meeting Reports Sustaining the Momentum �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �42 A report from the 2017 Waste Management Conference, held March 5-9 in Phoenix, Ariz. On the Cover: Next Issue: Decontamination workers prepare the Plutonium Reclamation Facility at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant for demolition. • Radioactive Waste Management Turn to page 18 for more. (Photo: DOE) • Transportation 2 • Radwaste Solutions Fall 2017 www.ans.org/rs Editorial Staff publisher Betsy Tompkins editor 2017 Radwaste Solutions Tim Gregoire desktop editor Buyers Guide Chris Salvato Index to Categories �� � � � � � � � 46 copy editor Allen Zeyher An alphabetical listing of the categories covered in the Buyers Guide, with cross-references and page locations of each category. 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Opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not 4 Editor’s Note 111 Radwaste Solutions necessarily reflect the opinions of the publisher, the editor, the American Nucle- Comments on this issue Subscription ar Society, or the organizations with which the authors are affiliated, nor should publication of the authors’ points of view be construed as endorsement by the Information American Nuclear Society. 6 Index to Advertisers 115 It’s Business 12 Headlines Contracts, business Reprints of articles that appear in Radwaste Solutions Industry news news, etc. can be purchased by contacting Ed Du Temple, Production Supervisor, American Nuclear Society, 110 Moving Up 118 Calendar People in the news Meetings of interest 708/579- 8310; [email protected] Fall 2017 Radwaste Solutions • 3 HeadlinesEditor’s Note CommentsIndustry on this Newsissue The future of things past his issue of Radwaste Solutions would not discuss the level of funding the is coming out just as two notable DOE expects will be available to the site waste management meetings are set near Richland, Wash. Perry, who was quot- Tto begin—Exchange Montitor’s RadWaste ed as saying he wasn’t going to craft a bud- Summit in Summerlin, Nev., (Septem- get on the spot, cannot be faulted for being ber 5-7) and the 2017 National Cleanup circumspect, but neither can the public be Workshop in Alexandria, Va., (September faulted for wanting some reassurance that 12-14), presented by the cleanup will get the Energy Com- While much work done. munities Alliance in The response I’ve cooperation with the remains to be done, the heard from many of Department of En- those in the DOE, ergy’s Office of Envi- however, is that the ronmental Manage- DOE is making steady job will get done, one ment and the Energy way or another. At Facility Contractors progress in cleaning another notable rad- Group. waste meeting, the Both meetings up the nation’s legacy Waste Management should prove valu- Conference, held in outside energy, are replacing large pump- able to anyone work- nuclear waste. Phoenix, Ariz., in and-treat systems that are expensive to ing in radioactive waste management, March, then DOE Acting Assistant Secre- operate and maintain. whether that involves the decontamina- tary for Environmental Management Sue Likewise, Cliff Carpenter of the DOE’s tion and decommissioning of commer- Cange noted how the Office of Environ- Office of Legacy Management provides an cial nuclear facilities, the disposition and mental Management is working to “har- example of the work the office is doing in management of various waste streams, or ness and sustain” the momentum gained monitoring and maintaining contaminat- the remediation of legacy waste resulting from its past accomplishments to further ed Cold War legacy sites, keeping them from the United State’s nuclear programs. advance cleanup progress across the DOE safe for generations to come (page 38). Of course, the Cleanup Workshop will fo- complex (see “Sustaining the Momen- You will also find in this issue a look at cus on the DOE’s efforts to clean up Man- tum,” starting on page 44). work being done by researchers with the hattan Project and Cold War legacy waste, Some of the more recent accomplish- Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute but the RadWaste Summit also devotes a ments that are adding to Environmental on