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Decontamination, Dismantling, and Decommissioning Contaminated Facilities Encompasses radiological, chemical, and physical characterization; preferred D&D; alternatives; planning for disposition of waste streams More information is available at www.inel.gov/capabilities/dd-tech Department of Energy (DOE)-Idaho National Engineering and Environmental laboratory (INEEL) The Decontamination and Dismantlement (D&D;) Program in operation today, was established at the INEEL in 1977. Of the original 45 surplus, contaminated facilities originally identified, 27 have been decommissioned to date. In the last 4 years the D&D; Program has demolished over 100 buildings and structures. There are currently over 200 facilities planned to undergo some sort of D&D; activity over the next 10 years. The Program is managed by INEEL's Environmental Restoration program. It also interfaces with Argonne National Laboratory-West and Naval Reactors Facility D&D; Programs to share technology and to coordinate planning activities within the INEEL. Program activities encompass radiological, chemical, and physical characterization; decision analyses which guide the selection of preferred D&D; alternatives; detailed project planning for performance and disposition of waste streams; establishment and maintenance of project documentation; and surveillance and maintenance of contaminated surplus facilities. These efforts support the following objectives: * Provide surveillance and maintenance of contaminated surplus facilities waiting for decommissioning to ensure worker health and safety and reduce environmental risk * Implement a structured decommissioning program for all present and future INEEL surplus facilities in compliance with federal and state regulations * Conduct financial project management, integrated planning and scheduling, and facility engineering to support priority-based decommissioning activities * Identify, make available, and reuse surplus materials, equipment, facilities, and property. Collaborations INEEL's D&D; Program interfaces with a number of other DOE-, university-, and industry-based research and development programs. Among these are several major DOE initiatives that branch out from DOE's Accelerated Site Technology Deployment Program. These initiatives are the Large Scale Demonstration and Deployment, and Integrated Decontamination and Decommissioning Projects. Almost all of the funding that drives the development, demonstration, and deployment of new technologies at the INEEL comes from these programs that are sponsored by DOE's Office of Science and Technology. Accelerated Site Technology Deployment Program - was created to implement technological solutions and processes that allow site cleanup to be accomplished faster, better, and cheaper. The program is designed to achieve the goals identified in the DOE Office of Environmental Management document entitled-- Accelerating Cleanup: Paths to Closure. It also incorporates the participation of five major DOE focus areas: TRU Mixed Waste, Nuclear Materials, Deactivation and Decommissioning, Tanks, and Subsurface Contaminants. -more- (pdf) INEEL's Large Scale Demonstration and Deployment Project - integrates expertise from DOE, industries, universities, and the international community into the deployment of new or innovative decontamination and decommissioning technologies. It identifies advanced technologies for inspecting, characterizing, decontaminating, and dismantling facilities. It demonstrates improved technologies alongside the established baseline technologies. It tracks performance indicators such as requirements, cost, effectiveness, implementation, worker exposure, and secondary waste generation for each technology demonstrated. Results are documented and shared with DOE labs, universities and private industry. Integrated Decontamination and Decommissioning Project - has its goal to increase the use of innovative, proven technologies over current baseline methods within the DOE complex. New technologies provide improvements over baseline methods in cost, schedule, radiation exposure, waste volume, or safety. This project is expected to increase use of these technologies throughout the DOE complex by increasing experience and familiarity with the selected innovative technologies. Keywords: Environment-Radioactive wastes; Nuclear Science and Technology-General Resource tags: Expertise; Federal laboratories, centers, and facilities
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