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Hughes, Frederick

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DOE OSTI2020

Panel Session 120: Roundtable: Waste Management - Energy Facilities Contractor Operating Group (EFCOG WM)

This Roundtable focused on the WM EFCOG working group as they met to discuss a variety of issues of importance to US DOE waste management operations. The purpose of the WM EFCOG is to seek out and promote the best management and operating practices, cost effective technologies and disposal options for all waste streams generated at US DOE facilities whether destined for US DOE or commercial facilities. Each site representative provided a radioactive waste management lessons learned briefing. Panelists with presentations: Savannah River Site (SRS) Solid Waste Program Update (Kerri Crawford); Idaho Clean-up Project Status (Frederick Hughes); West Valley Demonstration Project Update - EFCOG Waste Management Working Group (John Rendall); Key Project Challenges and Successes (Kalli Shupe); EFCOG WMWG Challenging Waste Subgroup Update (Tammy Monday); CH TRU Difficult Waste Stream Processing Challenges (Daniel Pancake); Argonne Building 350 Clean-up Success Using Effective Work Control (Daniel Dilday); Problematic Waste Streams on the Oak Ridge Reservation (John Wrapp)

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DOE OSTI2020

Panel Session 23: Start-up of Three Major DOE Treatment Facilities - SWPF, IWTU and DFLAW

This panel focused on the DOE-EM planning to complete construction and start up three major treatment facilities in the next 18 months. This included the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at Savannah River, the Integrated Waste treatment Unit (IWTU) at Idaho and the Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) at Hanford. DOE Site Managers from SC, ID and WA introduced each facility then the DOE Contractor provided the details on their biggest challenges in regulatory issues, construction, start-up and operations of each facility. Panelists with presentations: Lessons in Managing Risks in First of a Kind Nuclear Construction and Start-Up (Pamela Marks); Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (Connie Flohr); IWTI-Fluor (Frederick Hughes); Startup and Commissioning (Tom Fletcher)

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DOE OSTI2019

Panel Session 31: US DOE Featured Site: 30 Years of Environmental Management at the Idaho National Laboratory (1/5)

This panel highlighted the cleanup challenges and successes at the Idaho site, including the landmark Idaho Settlement Agreement, effective collaborative regulatory strategies, worker involvement, stakeholder involvement, and looking ahead. 2019 marks 30 years since the start of the DOE-EM mission at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. This panel focused on the cleanup successes and challenges at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site (Idaho, USA) over the last 30 years. The INL was added to the National Priorities List of Superfund Sites in 1989. Since that listing, the INL has been focused on meeting the cleanup milestones outlined in the Site Treatment Plan, 1991 Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order, 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement, and other agreements between the Department of Energy (DOE) and State of Idaho. Presentation proposed: 30 Years of Cleanup at Idaho National Laboratory Site (Nolan Jensen, US DOE - Idaho Operations Office - Idaho Cleanup Project (USA), Kliss McNeel, Fluor Idaho (USA), Mark Clough, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (USA), Darrell Early, Office of the Idaho Attorney General (USA), Rebecca Casper, City of Idaho Falls (USA))

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DOE OSTI2019

Panel Session 51: Idaho Transuranic Waste Challenges, Solutions and Implications for the Future (3/5)

This panel focused on the retrieval, characterization, treatment, certification, and shipping of transuranic (TRU) waste at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, Idaho, USA. The INL began receiving TRU waste from offsite generators (primarily the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado, USA) beginning in 1954. Until 1970, the INL Site disposed of barrels, boxes, and other debris in a shallow, unlined landfill. Beginning in 1970, the INL Site began storing TRU waste on an asphalt pad, which was then covered with several feet of soil. This practice continued until the late 1980's at which time a large air support building was erected over the waste. In the mid-to-late 1990's, the air support building was removed and a massive building was constructed over the entire dirt mound. Contractors retrieved the waste from the early 2000's through February 2017 to support an Idaho Settlement Agreement milestone that required the retrieval of 65,000 cubic meters of TRU waste and removal from Idaho. This panel focused on the Idaho Transuranic Waste Challenges, Solutions and Implications for the Future. The Idaho Transuranic Waste Program includes buried and stored waste retrieval and processing of contact- and remote-handled transuranic waste. Over the duration of the program, the Idaho site has conducted targeted retrieval of buried waste from the 1950's and 1960's; designed, permitted, built, operated, and completed the mission of a facility to process 65,000 cubic meters of waste; and shipped more than 57,000 cubic meters of waste to WIPP. Presentation proposed: Transuranic Waste Challenges and Solutions (Hoss Brown, Fluor Idaho, LLC (USA), John McCoy, Fluor Idaho, LLC (USA), James Malmo, US DOE (USA), Doug Pruitt, Department of Energy Idaho Field Office (USA), Kenneth Princen, US DOE (USA))

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DOE OSTI2019

Panel Session 52: US DOE Featured Site Idaho - Managing a Multi-Mission Site (4/5)

This panel focused on discussions related to managing a multi-mission site. The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site supports Department of Energy (DOD) Environmental Management (EM), Nuclear Energy (NE), Homeland Security, and the US Navy. Missions cross boundaries in areas such as spent nuclear fuel, waste management, and shared services. The EM mission is split between two separate contracts: the research component with the INL and the execution component with the Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP). Panelists discussed the unique aspects of managing a multi-mission site and their challenges and lessons learned. Presentation proposed: Managing a Multi-Mission Site (Robert Boston, US DOE (USA), Juan Alvarez, Battelle - Idaho National Laboratory (USA), John Zimmerman, US DOE Idaho Operations Office (USA), Frederick Hughes, Fluor Idaho, LLC (USA))

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DOE OSTI2019

Panel Session 92: Reducing Risk to Enable Endstates

This panel focuses on creative and first-of-a-kind initiatives and approaches to improve DoE's options for achieving success in managing its most difficult wastes. Looking across the Complex, panelists will provide updates to some of the solutions being applied to DoE's challenging waste streams on sites including Hanford, Idaho, Savannah River, and other sites. Presentations proposed include: 1 - Tank Closure Cesium Removal (Mark Keefer, Savannah River Remediation (USA)); 2 - Evolution of Saltstone Disposal Units (Kent Rosenberger, Savannah River Remediation (USA)); 3 - CRESP's Landfill Partnership: Applied Research to Solve Challenging Problems for On-Site Disposal Facilities (Craig Benson, University of Virginia - CRESP (USA)); 4 - Reducing Risk to Enable Endstates (Frederick Hughes, Fluor Idaho, LLC (USA))

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