U.S. Department of Energy, Ohio Field Office, P.O. Box 3020, Miamisburg, Ohio 45343-3020

A -- INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR TRITIUM D&D DUE 103098 POC Donald Krause, (937) 865-4501. The Department of Energy, Ohio Field Office is publicizing this for their prime contractor, Babcock and Wilcox of Ohio (BWO), P.O. Box 3030, Miamisburg, Ohio 45343. BWO is seeking innovative or improved technologies that are available for demonstration on the Tritium Deactivation, Decontamination and Decommissioning Project at the Mound Plant, a DOE contractor site in Miamisburg, OH. Former tritium operations facilities at Mound are being decontaminated and in some cases demolished or made available for possible commercial enterprises. These facilities include multiple laboratories with gloveboxes, piping, and other process equipment. The DOE D&D Focus Area is funding a Large Scale Demonstration and Deployment Project at Mound as part of a national effort to identify, demonstrate and deploy technologies that will allow the D&D of DOE surplus facilities more quickly at less cost and more protective of personnel and the environment. Candidate technologies should be fully developed and ready for large scale demonstration. Technologies that are selected for demonstration will be applied in an actual D&D setting where performance and cost data can be collected and measured against a baseline technology. Reports will be written and distributed and the deployment of successful technologies will be encouraged. Some demonstration cost sharing by the technology vendors should be anticipated. Areas of interest include characterization and monitoring, decontamination, dismantlement, waste stabilization and packaging, and personal protective equipment. Of particular interest are technologies that facilitate the handling of solid metal tritides. These materials present a variety of characterization, monitoring and handling challenges largely independent of the more common gas and water forms. Innovative technologies, applications or methods that improve on the baseline of extensive filtering, sampling, characterization analysis and preventative respiratory protection are sought. This project will consider technologies that have been demonstrated in the commercial nuclear industry or other non-nuclear business sectors outside of the DOE complex. Vendors of technologies that have been demonstrated at other DOE sites should describe how the Mound Tritium Project would present a unique application of the technology not heretofore demonstrated or deployed within the DOE community. Interested parties should submit a summary description of no more than ten pages that clearly identifies the proposed application and why this technology would provide an advantage over existing baseline technologies. Appropriate performance and cost data from bench scale operations are desirable. Posted 09/18/98 (M-SN251659). (0261)

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