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Vol II, Appendix B, Part 8: Argonne -East Site Assessment (1994)
| Author | Plutonium Working Gr US DoE |
| Date | September 1994 |
| Classification | 3.01.5.30/29 (UNITED STATES - GENERAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS PLANTS + CLEAN UP) |
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Argonne National Laboratory – East 1.0 Executive Summary 1.1 Objective and Scope The objective of the Plutonium ES&H Vulnerability Assessment Project is to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the environmental, safety and health (ES&H) vulnerabilities arising from the Department's storage and handling of its current plutonium holdings. The term "ES&H vulnerabilities" is defined for the purpose of this project to mean conditions or weaknesses that could lead to unnecessary or increased radiation exposure of workers, release of radioactive materials to the environment, or radiation exposure of the public. The assessment will identify and prioritize ES&H vulnerabilities, and will serve as an information base for identifying corrective actions and options for the safe management of fissile materials. The Argonne National Laboratory - East (ANL-E) Site Assessment Team (SAT) was formed, from ANL-E and Department of Energy (DOE) Chicago Operations Office-Argonne Area Office personnel, to conduct a self-assessment of the plutonium holdings and any associated ES&H vulnerabilities at the ANL-E site. The self-assessment consisted of identifying the site facilities with plutonium holdings, completing a standard DOE question set for each facility (or group of facilities with similar holdings), conducting table top discussions of the question sets, determining if any ES&H vulnerabilities existed, and preparing this ANL-E SAT Report. Each major holdings facility and most of the minor holdings facilities at ANL-E were inspected by one or more members of the SAT. These inspections were conducted to provide the background necessary to evaluate the question sets from the facilities, and where practical, to physically inspect a random sampling of some of the plutonium holdings. The self-assessment was discussed with the Working Argonne National Laboratory-East Group Assessment Team (WGAT) during their site visit of May 23 through May 27, 1994. Most DOE facilities on the ANL-E site are operated by ANL, with a single building operated by the DOE New Brunswick Laboratory (NBL). This report addresses only those plutonium holdings in the facilities operated by ANL. A separate report is being prepared for the plutonium holdings at NBL. In addition, DOE has identified certain categories of plutonium holdings as being outside of the full scope of this assessment due to their ES&H vulnerabilities being assessed in other studies. Out-of-scope plutonium holdings at AN L-E consist of plutonium isotopes contained in spent nuclear fuel samples, waste, or contamination being removed and packaged as waste under a DOE funded decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) project. For these holdings, only descriptive inventories are included in this report.
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