Lockheed Idaho Technologies Company, P.O. Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3521

A -- MOBILE-BASED NONDESTRUCTIVE ASSAY SYSTEM EVALUATION SOL CBD058 DUE 010897 POC Michael E. McIlwain 208-526-8130 WEB: Mixed Waste Focus Area dn Nat'l Low Level Waste Mgmt Program, http://wastenot.inel.gov/mwfa. E-MAIL: Michael E. McIlwain, mem@inel.gov. Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company (LMITCO) is a management and operating contractor for the Department of Energy (DOE) at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL). The DOE Characterization, Monitoring and Sensors Technology Cross-cut Focus Area, in conjunction with the LMITCO Mixed Waste Focus Area (MWFA) intends to evaluate current state-of-the-art mobile based nondestructive assay systems presently available to assay 55 and 83 gallon waste drums. The intent is to determine status of currently available commercial and governmentally developed mobile assay systems for meeting the requirements of the Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Waste Acceptance Criteria (DOE/WIPP-069) and Quality Assurance Program Plan (CAO-94-1010). This demonstration may be used by the Carlsbad Area Office in support of selecting technologies to support mobile characterization requirements defined in the National TRU Waste Management Plan (DOE/NTP-96-1204) and needs identified in the Mobile Systems Capability Plan (DOE/NTP-96-1202). The focus of this demonstration is to select systems for test based on criteria that will be provided to those responding to this announcement and at an informational session conducted at the 5th Nondestructive Assay and Nondestructive Examination Waste Characterization Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 14-16, 1997. Based on the results of the response to this criteria, systems will be selected to be tested at the INEL on surrogate and real waste drums representing waste that will be shipped to the WIPP facility for disposal. Succesful applicants will receive partial financial support for performing these tests (approximately equal to two people at $90/hour for an estimated 35 day test period). Successful applicants will also be required to meet all safety requirements of the INEL, which will be evaluated both in writing and visually prior to transferring the system to the INEL. Organizations with interest in participating in this program and receiving additional information are asked to submit a contact name and address to Michael McIlwain, LMITCO, P.O. Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3805, (telephone (208)526-8130). Subsequent information may be requested from respondents on their technologies in addition to information in the criteria document supplied. The preliminary plan for demonstration test calls for measurements on each of 33 real waste drums, selected randomly from the INEL waste stream inventory, and on 10 simulated "real waste" drums. This request for interested parties will close to response 30 days after publication. This call supersedes the announcement appearing in the October 21, 1996 edition of the Commerce Business Daily, issued by the Special Technologies Laboratory. (0345)

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