44 -- TRITIUM FACILITY DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING TECHNOLOGIES

Notice Date

August 22, 2001

Contracting Office

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop C332, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545

ZIP Code

87545

Solicitation Number

LSDDP-01

Response Due

October 26, 2001

Point of Contact

Scott Willms, LANL, (505) 667-5802. John McFee, IT Corp., (303) 793-5231

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact Scott Willms, the Deployment (willms@lanl.gov)

Description

The Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Environmental Management (EM) is seeking innovative or improved technologies that are available for deployment on DOE tritium facility shutdown projects. Tritium facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM), the Mound Plant (Miamisburg, OH), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Princeton, NJ), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) and the Savannah River Site (Aiken, SC) are or will be decontaminated and in some cases demolished or made available for other purposes. These facilities include multiple laboratories with gloveboxes, piping, and other process equipment. The DOE-EM D&D Focus Area is funding a Large Scale Demonstration and Deployment Project (LSDDP) as part of a national effort to identify and deploy technologies that will allow the D&D of these tritium contaminated surplus facilities more quickly, at less cost and with reduced risk to personnel and the environment. Candidate technologies should be fully developed and ready for full scale deployment. Technologies that are selected for deployment will be applied in an actual D&D setting within the contaminated facilities. Reports will be written to document deployment experience. Areas of interest include: waste handling and disposal (water, oils and solids), tritium characterization (surface and bulk), dismantlement and demolition, improved personal protective equipment, gas detritiation, tritium air monitoring, decontamination of tritiated equipment and materials, and long-term surveillance and maintenance. With the number of facilities being shutdown, there are a wide variety of applications in each category. This project will consider all technologies that are ready to be deployed to aid in tritium facility shutdown. For selection, technologies must have a clear advantage (reduced cost, schedule and/or risk) over present baseline practices. Such advantages may be communicated most clearly by documented previous use, for instance, at DOE or non-DOE tritium facilities, in the commercial nuclear industry or in other non-nuclear, government/business sectors. Performance and cost data from bench-scale operations are also desirable. Interested parties should submit a summary description that clearly describes the technology, identifies the proposed application, identifies previous deployment and demonstrations, and explains why this technology would provide an advantage over existing baseline technologies.

Web Link

Click here to access the Tritium Facility LSDDP web (www-emtd.lanl.gov/LSDDPB/TSTA.html)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010824/44SOL003.HTM (W-234 SN50V7J9)