Office of Economic Transition, Fluor Daniel Hanford, Inc., Post Office Box 1000, MSIN H8-64, Richland, WA 99352

99 -- CESIUM-137 AND STRONTIUM-90 OPPORTUNITY SOL 98-001 DUE 073198 POC Point of Contact -- Dave Greenslade, Office of Economic Transition,509-376-5601 WEB: Fluor Daniel Hanford Acquisitions, http://www.hanford.gov/pmm/rfp.htm. E-MAIL: click here to contact the technical contact, david_l_greenslade@rl.gov. Fluor Daniel Hanford, Inc., the Management and Integration contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Hanford Site, in collaboration with B&W Hanford Company and the DOE, is seeking expressions of commercial interest in existing Cs-137 and Sr-90 materials that are stored at the Hanford Site near Richland, WA. 49.5 MCi of Cs-137 chloride are stored in 1311 capsules, each of which is 2.6 inches in diameter and 20.8 inches long; 21.4 MCi of Sr-90 fluoride are stored in 601 capsules, each of which is 2.6 inches in diameter and 20.1 inches long. The Cs-137 and Sr-90 have aged 40-80% of one half life since capsule production and are currently stored in 8 pools at Hanford's Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF). The DOE's baseline plan for these materials is to dispose of them by feeding them into Hanford's high level waste vitrification process sometime around 2013. Expressions of interest must be economically viable to the DOE and may include (1) leasing the gamma ray and bremsstrahlung radiation field space within the WESF pools or (2) purchasing MCi amounts of the Cs-137 and/or Sr-90 salts. If the radiation field space is to be leased, all capsules must remain at least 6 feet underwater in the existing WESF pools, one of which is 8.8 feet wide by 21.8 feet long by 10.8 feet deep and the remaining 7 pools each being 4.4 feet wide by 21.8 feet long by 10.8 feet deep. The present capsule storage configurations consist of single-layered, vertical capsule, rectangular arrays 6.6 feet long by 4.2 feet wide, and 4.1 feet long by 4.2 feet wide for the Cs-137 and the Sr-90 capsules, respectively. These configurations may be changed to optimize the radiation field space needed for commercial use but must still meet WESF and capsule requirements. The WESF is classified as Treatment, Storage, and Disposal (TSD) under RCRA and is intended to store the capsules at least until 2017. Purchasing options must address use and final disposal requirements as set forth by U. S. Government and/or international law. Expressions of commercial interest must be received no later than July 31, 1998 by standard mail or fax, and should include information on the technical and business capabilities of the respondent. Any submitted business proprietary information shall be clearly marked as such and will be held by Fluor Daniel Hanford, Inc. in strictest confidence. Submittals shall be delivered to Dave Greenslade, Office of Economic Transition, Fluor Daniel Hanford, Inc., Post Office Box 1000, MS H8-64, Richland, WA, 99352, 509-376-5601, fax 509-372-2454. (0134)

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