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Nevada National Security Site Nevada Field Office FY 2014 Status Report. Jhon Carilli Low-Level Radioactive Waste (LLW) Activity Lead DOECAP Workshop – Albuquerque, NM September 15-18, 2014. Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). Located approximately 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, NV
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Nevada National Security SiteNevada Field OfficeFY 2014 Status Report Jhon Carilli Low-Level Radioactive Waste (LLW) Activity Lead DOECAP Workshop – Albuquerque, NM September 15-18, 2014
Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) • Located approximately 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, NV • Approximately 1,360 square miles of U.S. DOE controlled land • Historic mission: Research and development of nuclear weapons • Clean-up controlled by Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order
Nevada Field Office Missions • Defense Experimentation and Stockpile Stewardship • Global Security • Environmental Management The NNSS is the nation’s only site for high-explosive-driven subcritical plutonium experiments — essential for safe, effective stewardship of the enduring nuclear stockpile
Nevada National Security SiteAssets • Device Assembly Facility • Big Explosives Experimental Facility • Joint Actinide Shock Physics Experimental Research • U1a Underground Experimental Complex • Nonproliferation Test and Evaluation Complex • Nuclear Criticality Experiments Research Center • Radiological/Nuclear Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Center • Radiological/Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction Incident Exercise Site
Contractors • National Security Technologies, LLC (NSTec) • Remediation • Waste management • Laboratory data verification and validation • Navarro-Intera, LLC (N-I) • Corrective action investigations • Remediation • Groundwater modeling • Laboratory data verification and validation
Industrial Sites Land and facilities used in direct support of nuclear testing • 1,970 sites listed • 12 sites remain • Less activity in FY 2015 with reduced samples and waste
Soils Surface and shallow subsurface soil contaminated by atmospheric nuclear testing • 134 sites listed • 44 sites remain • Anticipate no change in volume of samples and waste for FY 2015
Underground Test Areas Contaminated groundwater characterization and modeling • Five sites listed • One moving to closure • Two moving to model evaluation or closure • Two remain in investigative/data gathering • Implementing Integrated Sampling Plan between M&O and Environmental Restoration contractors • Anticipate more sampling in FY 2015
Commercial Laboratory UseFY 2014 • Environmental: $500,000 • $140,000 NSTec • $360,000 N-I • NSTec Industrial Hygiene: $12,000 • NSTec Bioassay: $36,000
Commercial Laboratory UseFY 2015 • Environmental: $418,000 • $140,000 NSTec • $278,000 N-I* • NSTec Industrial Hygiene: $12,000 • NSTec Bioassay: $15,500 * Six month planning only
Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDF) • FY 2014 • Waste Control Specialists $23,000 • US Ecology $15,000 • FY 2015 Anticipated • Materials and Energy Corp ~ $40,000 • Waste Control Specialists ~ $20,000 Waste Control Specialists Materials and Energy Corporation
DOECAP Auditors Seven Auditors Eight Qualifications Quality Assurance Radiochemistry Organic Inorganic Waste Operations Environmental Compliance Transportation Hazardous and Radiological Materials Management • Three TSDF • Three Laboratory • One TSDF and Laboratory
Audit Participation • FY 2014 Audits supported • Three Laboratory • Two TSDF • FY 2015 Anticipated • Four Laboratory • Three TSDF