Savannah River Site Status Report

1. Savannah River Site Status Report DOECAP Analytical Services Program 2013 Workshop Ben Terry, Manager Environmental Permitting Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC September 23, 2013 ASP 2013 Workshop Asheville, NC

2. Savannah River Site (SRS) Introduction • Site History and Scope • Current Activities • SRS Participation in DOECAP K Area Cooling Tower Demolition

3. SRS Size Comparison

4. SRS – Site History and Scope SRS produced and recovered nuclear materials • Tritium • Plutonium 238 • Plutonium 239 SRS facilities • Five reactors • Two chemical separations plants • Heavy water extraction plant • Nuclear fuel and target fabrication facility • Waste management facilities SRS produced about 36 metric tons of plutonium from 1953-1988. The end of the Cold War meant a completely different philosophy and approach to the nuclear arsenal. 4

5. Savannah River Site Organizations Total Employees: 11,077 as of 6/30/13 • Federal Government: • DOE: Savannah River Operations Office • Environmental Management (EM) • National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) • U.S. Forest Service (USFS) • U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Contractors: • Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS)Site Management & Operations and Savannah River National Laboratory • Savannah River Remediation (SRR): Liquid Waste Operations • Parsons: Salt Waste Processing Facility construction and operations • Ameresco: Biomass Cogeneration Plant • Wackenhut (WSI): Security • Shaw AREVA: Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility construction and operations • University of Georgia: Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

6. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions SRNS is the Management and Operating contractor for DOE’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC • Provide nuclear materials management to support national defense and U.S. nuclear nonproliferation efforts • Support the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) by extracting tritium and delivering products to military and weapons design agencies • Develop and deploy environmental cleanup technologies • Conduct technology Research and Development on national energy independence initiatives • Operate the Savannah River National Laboratory • General Site Services (transportation; roads; maintenance)

7. Savannah River National Laboratory Clean Energy Environmental Stewardship National Security Clean Energy Hydrogen Production and Storage Nuclear Fuel Cycle R&D Renewable Energy Research Small Modular Reactors Nuclear Defense Plutonium Technology Homeland Security Nonproliferation Nuclear Forensics Waste Treatment Materials Stabilization and Disposition Remediation and Cleanup Assessments and Verification

8. SRNS EM Missions • Used nuclear fuel storage, receipt, and disposition • Special nuclear material consolidation, processing, and disposition • Area Closures • Soil and Groundwater remediation • Transuranic and mixed/ low-level waste disposition • Infrastructure maintenance and upgrades • Analytical Laboratories K Area Materials Storage TRU Waste Shipment H Canyon Control Room H Canyon

9. SRS NNSA Missions • Tritium operations and extraction • Continue to recover and recycle tritium from existing weapons • Deliver high quality reservoirs on schedule • Expand tritium capability • Deliverables • Surveillance • Loading • Unloading (Extraction, Recycle) • Helium 3 • Non-proliferation • Waste Solidification Building • Uranium blending and shipping • Foreign fuel receipts Tritium Operations Waste Solidification Building Used fuel being unloaded in Charleston, S.C.

10. Savannah River Remediation (SRR) • Liquid Waste Contractor • Contract focus: • Managing 37 million gallons of radioactive liquid tank waste to be treated and stabilized for final disposition • Emptying, cleaning and closing radioactive waste tanks • Operating major nuclear facilities to treat and dispose of waste • SRS is the only DOE site processing salt waste Transporting canisters from DWPF to the Glass Waste Storage Building Saltcake Salt Supernate Sludge Safely Stored

11. SRR Facilities • DWPF Glass Waste Storage Buildings - GWSB 1 contains 2,244 canisters - GWSB 2 currently contains 800 canisters (capacity for 2,340) • Underground reinforced concrete vaults • Seismically qualified • Designed for safe interim storage Interim Storage of Canisters Defense Waste Processing Facility Saltstone Production Facility • Vast majority of waste volume from tanks – but few curies – are left in SC • Those left in SC are disposed at the Saltstone Production Facility • Safely stabilizes low-level radioactive liquid salt wastes • Salt solution stabilized by mixing it with cement, fly ash and slag • Resulting grout mixture is mechanically pumped into concrete disposal units, called Saltstone Disposal Facility • Grout solidifies into non-hazardous low-radioactive waste form called “saltstone” • Little waste volume goes here, but almost all curies dispositioned at DWPF • World’s largest vitrification plant • Over 3,000 canisters filled. DWPF has poured more than 11.7 million gallons of glassified waste • Entire 37 million gallons of waste in the tanks awaiting disposition has about 340 million curies of radioactivity

12. Parsons • Salt Waste Processing Facility contractor • This facility will… • Reduce radioactive waste volume requiring vitrification • Separate low volume/high activity from high volume/low activity waste • Transfer high activity waste to DWPF • Transfer low activity waste to Saltstone Facility • Salt waste solutions are currently being processed through interim salt disposition facilities with noted success Construction of SWPF is more than 70 percent complete.

13. Ameresco • Built and operate Biomass Cogeneration Facility • Single largest renewable Energy Savings Performance Contract in nation’s history • Replaced coal powerhouse and oil-fired boilers • Clean biomass of forest residue, wood chips, tires • Started construction September 2009 • First wood chips delivered August 2011 • Operational by mid December 2011 Unloading bio-derived fuels at the Ameresco facility Construction of 34-acre Biomass Cogeneration Facility

14. SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use Analytical Needs and Providers TypeSRS (%)Commercial (%) Bioassay 100 0 Industrial Hygiene 82 18 NPDES 35 65 Site Environmental 95 5 RCRA/CERCLA 25 75 Waste Characterization 5 95

15. SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use Analytical Projected Use TypeSRS (FY14) SRS (FY15) Com (FY14) Com (FY15) Bioassay 100 100 0 0 Industrial 82 82 18 18 Hygiene NPDES 35 35 65 65 Environmental 95 95 5 5 RCRA/CERCLA 15 15 85 85 Waste Charac. 3 3 97 97

16. Future Analytical Needs and Procured Services Continue existing level of laboratory support for baseline activities. Future TSDF Needs and Procured Services The Solid Waste Baseline has mixed waste management activities forecasted through 2031. However, due to significant projected shortfalls in the FY14 budget, SRS DOECAP participation will need to be statused as TBD for each scheduled audit. SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use

17. SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use Key SRS Personnel Associated with DOECAP • Laboratory – • Gail Whitney, Federal Point of Contact (POC) • Ben Terry, Contractor POC • TSDF – • Herbert (Bert) Crapse, Federal POC • Dennis Knapp, Contractor POC

18. SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use Current & Future TSDF Needs (Expenditures are speculative until specific contracts are finalized) * Contracts being rebid – final $ is dependent on budget and awardee

19. SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use Commercial Lab Expenditures • Type of Service$ Annual* • RCRA/CERCLA 1,250,000 • Waste 750,000 • NPDES/Environmental 85,000 • Industrial Hygiene 42,000 * Expenditures are speculative until specific contracts are finalized.

20. SRS – Questions