Strategies and Activities Utilized for D&D in the
U.S. and Other Countries
AtomEco Intrernational Conference, Moscow
October 2012
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Fluor’s Diversified Businesses
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Decommissioning
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Fluor’s Safety Performance
Total Case Incident Rate (TRIR) based on
more that 250 million hours worked
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Nuclear Decommissioning
5 sample projects:
 K Basin Spent Nuclear Fuel & Sludge Removal Project –
U.S. DOE, Hanford 1996-2006
 Portsmouth Decommissioning Project – U.S. DOE, Ohio
2011-Present
 Fernald Environmental Remediation Project – U.S. DOE
Ohio 1998-2007
 Savannah River Nuclear Site (SRS) – U.S. DOE, South
Carolina 2008-Present
 International Remediation Projects – U.K. and Russia,
2004-2008
Workers using video equipment at
K-Basins, DOE
Hanford, Washington
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Hanford K-Basins – High Hazard Project
95 percent of the radioactivity in Hanford’s reactor area Over 2.11 million kilograms of deteriorated and
damaged fuel removed, washed, dried, containerized,
and stored - Approximately 2.0 x 106 TBq
Hanford Site - 1517 km2
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Hanford Project - K Reactor Fuel Basins
Highly radioactive fuel and
debris handling tool
Highly corroded metal
uranium fuels in a canister
Disintegrated fuel in
containers
105,000 fuel assemblies covered with
miscellaneous contaminated debris
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Hanford Project - K Basin – Challenges Met
K-Basins as
it appeared
in 2000
2000
2007
Six engineered containers of sludge (46 m3) in
K-Basins while awaiting transfer & treatment
135.4 metric tons of debris, racks and
canisters removed from K-Basin
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Hanford Project Management - Sludge Transfer
Booster Station and Hose
Transferred approximately 38 m3 of highly radioactive sludge from engineered containers in K
East to engineered containers in K West via approximately 0.8 km long hose-in-hose system
with 4 booster pump stations
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Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant D&D
D&D of 415 buildings at Portsmouth Gas Diffusion
Plant formally used to enrich uranium
hexafluoride (UF6)
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Fluor is responsible for performing the
decontamination and demolition (D&D) of three
massive uranium enrichment process buildings
– each covering more than 12-hectares
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10-year, $2.1 billion contract awarded in 2011
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1,600+ employees
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1,500-hectare site
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Fluor is providing economic development
advisors to bring new industry to the depressed
Portsmouth region
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Fernald Environmental Remediation Project
Converted a 425-hectare U.S. DOE Fernald Uranium
Processing Complex to a Nature Reserve
 Reduced original clean-up schedule by 12 years
and project cost by US $7.8 billion (original
schedule was 27 years and $12.2 billion).
 Dismantled over 300 buildings, including 250
radiologically-contaminated buildings and
structures.
 Excavated and shipped 1 million tons of waste
from 6 waste pits.
 Removed 31 million pounds of uranium product
 Disposed of 2.0 million cubic meters of
contaminated soil, including shipping 1.4 million
cubic meters off site.
 Remediated a 90-hectare uranium-contaminated
groundwater plume.
DOE Fernald site, Ohio United States
Two silos and processing facilities
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Sellafield – Resource Enhancement Contract
Resource Enhancement contract to improve cleanup and decommissioning
performance
 Contract with British Nuclear Group
(BNG)
 2-year contract focused on improving
cleanup and decommissioning.
 Scope approx. $400 million/year out
of $1.2 billion Site budget.
 Seconded 24 Senior Fluor employees
into site management team
 Head of B30 ponds
 Head of low-level disposal facility
 Head of project controls
 Reduced Site Lifetime Plan costs by
several hundred million dollars and
accelerated baseline schedules
Sellafield Site
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Sellafield - B30 Sludge Inventory
350 tons of degraded fuel
1,204m3 sludge inventory
1,234 containers in the pond
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Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership,
Russia
Provided Russia with program
management expertise and lessons
learned from U.S. nuclear
decommissioning projects
 Project funded by European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
(EBRD) and managed by Russian
Academy of Sciences, Nuclear Safety
Institute.
 Fluor specialists were fully integrated
into project teams and worked hand in
hand with Russian experts.
Multi-purpose Submarine being dismantled
 Introduced best practice processes used
for strategic planning.
Andreeva Bay, Murmansk Region
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Management Objectives for Decommissioning
Four critical project management elements
assure that project objectives are SAFELY met
 Technical Scope — Ensuring defined technical objectives are
achieved
 Accelerating Schedule — Ensuring work is constantly brought
forward
 Reducing Costs — Ensuring non-project costs are driven down
or eliminated
 Risk Management — Ensuring project risks are identified and
managed
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