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Project Title:
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Development and Implementation of a Cleanup Technology Roadmap for DOE's Office of Environmental Management
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NRSB-O-06-03-A
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Major Unit:
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Division on Earth and Life Studies
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Sub Unit:
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Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board
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RSO:
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Wiley, John
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Environment and Environmental Studies
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Meeting #4
October 31, 2007 - November 2, 2007
Hanford, WA
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If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:
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| Contact Name:
Mandi M. Boykin
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| Email:
mboykin@nas.edu
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| Phone:
202-334-3066
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Fax:
202-334-3077
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Agenda:
Committee on Development and Implementation of a
Cleanup Technology Roadmap
Fourth Meeting: October 31-November 2, 2007
Hanford Site
Richland, WA
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Red Lion Hanford House
802 George Washington Way
Richland, WA
509-946-7611
OPEN SESSION
8:30-9:00 am Welcome and Introductions
Ed Przybylowicz, Committee Chair
David Brockman, Manager, Department of Energy-Richland Operations Office
(DOE-RL)
Shirley Olinger, Acting Manager, Department of Energy-Office of River Protection
(DOE-ORP)
Mike Weis, Manager, Department of Energy-Pacific Northwest Site Office
(DOE-PNSO)
Mike Kluse, Director-Pacific Norwest National Laboratory
(PNNL)
Attendees Introduction
9:00-9:30 am Hanford Operations Overview
Roy Gephart, PNNL (site layout; production-era role)
John Morse, DOE (cleanup activities; work remaining)
Comments, Questions and Answers
9:30-10:00 am PNNL Overview
(Traditional support of Hanford operations; expertise; facilities)
Mike Davis, PNNL
Terry Walton, PNNL
Comments, Questions and Answers
10:00-10:15 am Break
10:15-12:00 pm Hanford HLW Program – Challenges to Cleanup
(Tank waste retrieval, analyses, processing)
TBD, DOE-ORP
Jim Honeyman, CH2M HILL
Rick Brouns/Walt Tamosaitis, Bechtel-Waste Treatment Plant (WTP)
Tom Brouns, PNNL
Comments, Questions and Answers
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00-2:30 pm Groundwater Program - Challenges to Cleanup
(Hydrology overview, contaminant plumes, Vadose Zone Project, modeling,
remediation)
Mike Thompson, DOE-RL
Bruce Ford, Fluor Hanford (FH)
Terri Stewart, PNNL
Comments, Questions and Answers
2:30-2:45 pm Break
2:45-3:45 pm Facility D&D – Challenges to Cleanup
(Reprocessing canyons, reactors, Pu Finishing Plant, K-Basins)
TBD, DOE
TBD, FH
Andy Schmidt, PNNL
Comments, Questions and Answers
3:45-4:45 pm Invited Presentations from regulators and citizens
What are Hanford’s long-term cleanup challenges
4:45-5:00 pm Summary and Tour Preparation (route map)
5:00 pm Adjourn
Thursday, November 1, 2007
7:00 am Bus Pick-up from Hotel for Tours
7:15-7:45 am Badging at the Federal Building
7:45-9:45 am Bus En-route to Site Areas with Presentations
? PNNL campus drive-by – Terry Walton/ Roy Gephart, PNNL
? HLW Tank Mock-up stop and visit – TBD, DOE-ORP or CH2M HILL
• 300 Area drive-by; on-bus presentation on Integrated Field Research Center, D&D, future use, hot cells – Walton, PNNL, TBD, DOE-RL
• 618-10,11 burial ground drive around; on-bus presentation on problems of high level TRU waste retrieval near operating commercial nuclear power plant – TBD, DOE-RL
9:45-10:45 am Waste Treatment Plant
(Driving tour and on-bus presentations, Includes 10 minute break at WTP Visitors Center)
Rick Brouns/Walt Tamosaitis, Bechtel-WTP
10:45-11:45 am “Desert Navy”
Hanford Cap Stop - Roy Gephart/Mike Fayer, PNNL
Tank Farm Overview (BBYBX) – TBD DOE-ORP or CH2M HILL
Drive by Waste Encapsulation Facility Sr/Cs capsules, on-bus briefing - TBD
Drive by TRU retrieval areas - TBD
Drive by Resource Conservation and Recovery Act waste disposal facility - TBD
11:45-12:30 pm Lunch at 200 Area
Supplemental Tank Waste Processing
? Bulk Vitrification – TBD, DOE-ORP and/or CH2M HILL; Larry Bagaasen, PNNL
? Fractional Crystallization – TBD, DOE-ORP and/or CH2M HILL
12:30 pm Tour Separates into Two Groups
Group 1: Waste Processing and Facility D&D
12:30-1:45 pm Facility D&D
• Enter canyon w/viewing station (200-W)
• PFP drive around and overlook
1:45 – 2:05 pm Travel to PNNL (300 Area)
• En route briefing on reactor D&D and cocooning
2:05-3:20 pm Radiochemical Processing Laboratory (RPL) (includes 10 minute break)
• Alumina Dissolution and Filtration
• Pipeline plugging
• Ion Exchange Resins
3:20-4:05 pm Travel to Applied Process Engineering Laboratory (APEL)
• Drive by 336 Bldg, large scale mixing testing
• Pulse Jet Mixers
• Antifoam Agents and Gas Retention
4:05-4:25 pm Travel to Process Development Laboratory West (PDL-W)
• Pretreatment Engineering Platform (PEP)
• Glass Waste Form Optimization (poster)
4:25-4:35 pm Travel to Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)
Group 2: Subsurface/Soil & Groundwater
12:30-1:45 pm Soil and Groundwater Remediation
• CCl4 plume remediation (200 W)
• T-Farm Pump and Treat, Surface Barrier (200 W)
• Gravel Pit that shows subsurface layers, presentation on Lysimeter facility
1:45-2:15 pm Travel to PNNL (300 Area)
• En route briefings on Cr plume remediation and Sr plume remediation
2:15-3:30 pm Radiochemical Processing Laboratory (RPL) (includes 10 minute break)
• Conceptual Models: addressing uncertainty and incorporating complexity
• Translating Science to Technical Solution for in situ Treatment of U in 300 Area
• Tank Farm Vadose Zone Sample Characterization and Tc-99 roadmap project
3:30-4:25 pm Travel to 331 Past Integrated Subsurface Field Research Challenge Site
• IFC Goals and Objectives
• Life-Cycle Monitoring
• Aquatics and Mesocosm Labs
4:25-4:35 pm Travel to Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)
4:35-5:15 pm Two groups reunite at EMSL
• Science to Solution, Cs Migration – John Zachara, PNNL
• Science to Solution, Underpinnings of Waste Chemistry – Andy Felmy, PNNL
5:15-5:30 pm PNNL Wrap-Up
5:30 pm Adjourn
Friday, November 2, 2007
OPEN SESSION
8:30-9:30 am Department of Energy-Environmental Management’s (DOE-EM) needs for the committee’s Interim and Final Reports: Content, timing, and impacts
Mark Gilbertson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, DOE-EM
9:30-10:00 am Science and Technology (S&T) Challenges for Deep Groundwater Monitoring: Lessons learned from the National Academies’ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) groundwater committee
Chris Murphy (PNNL),
Tony Knepp (YAHSGS)
10:00-10:15 am Break
10:15-11:30 am S&T Needs Roundtable
• DOE
• Contractors
• PNNL
11:30-12:00 pm Summary Comments/Questions
12:00 pm Adjourn
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Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting
The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
Edwin P. Przybylowicz
Allen G. Croff
Richelle M. Allen-King
Sue B. Clark
Rachel J. Detwiler
Thomas F. Gesell
Gary P. Halada
Carolyn L. Huntoon
Edward Lahoda
Gary S. Sayler
Andrew M. Sessler
J. Leslie Smith
The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007
Committee Discussion: Expectations and Questions for Hanford visit
Committee self-select the two tour groups
Committee Discussion: INL follow-up and collection of needed materials
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2007
Committee preparation for Mark Gilbertson
Expectations and needs from Mr. Gilbertson for committee’s reports
Questions for Mr. Gilbertson
S.O.T Roundtable
Interim Report: What messages does the committee need to send EM
Interim Report: The Logistics
• Discuss and agree on outline of interim report
• Report content: Major findings based on workshop and site visits
• Discuss and agree on writing assignments, including schedule for drafts
• Discuss December 12th polishing meeting in DC
Site information summaries (Appendixes) for final report
• Discuss draft Oak Ridge appendix.
• Review of information from Oak Ridge, Idaho, and Hanford
• Finalize site-responsibility groups.
Committee Discussion of Spring Meeting in DC
• How to better inform item 2 of our task:
o Leveraging resources from other organizations: Who to invite?
• Dates and logistics
The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
No Materials were submitted to the Committee during the closed sessions.
Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:
November 7, 2007
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