PIT DISASSEMBLY

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PIT DISASSEMBLY CONVERSION FACILITY (PDCF)
Unclassified Briefing Package Presentation
for The Society of American Military
Engineers 1 July 09
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PDCF Mission

• The mission of the PDCF is to develop and deploy
  the capability to disassemble nuclear weapons
  pits and convert the resulting plutonium and
  other plutonium metal to an unclassified oxide
  suitable for storage and disposition. The rate
  of progress in deploying this capability will be
  consistent with that specified in the Agreement
  Between the Government of the United States of
  America and the Government of the Russian
  Federation Concerning the Management and
  Disposition of Plutonium Designated As No Longer
  Required for Defense Purposes and Related
  Cooperation (U.S.-Russia Plutonium Management and
  Disposition Agreement) (September 2000).

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PDCF Part of Pu Disposition

• PDCF Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility
• MOX MFFF Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication
  Facility
• WSB Waste Solidification Building
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• PDCF MOX WSB Pu Disposition Program
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• Synergies among projects

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PDCF Program Footprint at Savannah River Site
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Pu Disposition - Strategy
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Pu Disposition Program Sync
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PDCF - Requirements

• Receive surplus pits from PANTEX and clean metal
  from K Reactor Storage
• PDCF Products
• Pu oxide for MFFF at a nominal rate of 3.5 MT/yr
• U oxide for disposition by HEU disposition
  program
• Non-fissile materials for disposal
• Facility planned for 8 year operation, 25 MT
  total (and growing)
• Worker dose limited to 500 mrem/yr
• NQA-1 required construction, safety class and
  safety significant requirements

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Alternatives Analysis

• DOE Alternative Analysis Ongoing / Underway
• PDCF (New Facility)
• K-Combo (Retrofit into Existing Facility)
• Reuse process design
• Synergy of DOE projects (Pit Non-Pit Pu)

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PDCF 7 Components
Mechanical Building
ECF
Admin. Building
Utility Building
Process Building
Fan House
Waste Solidification Building
Sand Filter
PDCF
WSB
MOX
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PDCF - Statistics

• First-of-a-kind Facility. Underground. Secure.
  Automated.
• Seven building complex
• Over 100 Gloveboxes
• 120,000 CY of concrete
• 14,000 TN reinforcing steel
• Nine miles of piping
• Five miles of HVAC ducts
• 200 miles of cable
• 171 Rooms Process Rooms, Analytical Labs,
  Interstitial Space, Utility Areas, Product
  Vaults, Sub-Slab Firewater Containment Basin,
  Safe Havens, Guard Towers
• Automation of control systems, nuclear
  criticality, security, ventilation and gases, and
  accountability systems

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PDCF Facility Information

• Systems are Highly Automated (System Integration
  SI)
• 6,200 Control Inputs/Outputs
• 26 Non-Safety Programmable Logic Controllers
  (PLCs)
• 18 Safety PLCs
• Nuclear criticality and accountability
  necessitate a very complicated system integration
  and control system.
• Security and Safeguards drive the design
  considerations.
• Geotechnical considerations drive the structural
  design.
• Multiple HVAC zones for control of air flow and
  contaminants.

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PDCF - Gloveboxes
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PDCF Transport System
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Preliminary thoughtsWork Scope
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PDCF Corps Role

• DOE has asked the Corps to perform the role of
  Construction Manager for the PDCF.
• Interagency Agreement signed February 2008.
• Corps will serve as prime contractor over a
  series of major subcontracts.
• Part of an integrated project team (IPT) to
  include
• National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA /
  DOE)
• URS-Washington Division (Designer)
• Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (Design
  Authority and SI)
• Los Alamos National Lab (LANL - Development and
  Testing)
• Other designers and consultants

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PDCF Corps Organization
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Corps Status Activities

• Internal Activities
• Initial Hires 11 on site now
• Site Office Preparation
• IT Big challenge (an IPT response)
• NQA1 Lead Auditors, Training Initial Staff
  COMPLETED
• Lessons Learned Reviews
• Ongoing HANFORD / LANL / MOX / etc.
• Acquisition Planning Nuclear Vendor Forums /
  DOE SB Conference / Glovebox Conference /
  Manipulator Forums
• Developing Plans Management Plans / Commo Plan
  / CM Plan / ACQ Plan / Project Controls Plan /
  Constructability Review Plan / CD3 Package
  PlanETC, ETC, ETC

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PDCF Planning Curve
Steeper Ramp! (Augment COE Staff)
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Final Thoughts

• What weve found
• NQA1.an increasing vendor/contractor challenge
• Project Controls
• EVMS
• PDSA - Safety Basis
• Configuration Control
• Document Control / Records Management
• What wed recommend
• The Nuclear Renaissance positioning will
  matter
• Targeted diversity within your project portfolio
• Experience Matters!
• Stay tunedstay engaged!!

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Questions?