DEVELOPMENT OF PROCESS TEMPLATES AS A PROJECT MANAGEMENTTOOL FOR THE PLUTONIUM FINISHING PLANT

摘要

The mission of the Nuclear Materials Stabilization Project is to provide for safe stabilization;rninterim storage; repackaging; and shipment of the Plutonium Finishing Plant inventory ofrnplutonium-bearing materials, spent nuclear fuel, and other nuclear material for reuse, long-termrnstorage, and/or final disposition. In May 1994 (updated in 2000), the DNFSB issuedrnrecommendation 94-1 identifying a number of concerns regarding the storage of fissile materialsrnand other radioactive substances. The DOE decided to implement a group of stabilizationrnalternatives, including thermal stabilization, pyrolysis, calcination, and cementation. Pyrolysisrnand calcination are not currently planned for implementation at the Plutonium Finishing Plant.rnIntegration of the remaining stabilization alternatives across a wide variety of material types andrnforms and a significant inventory of plutonium, presents numerous technical and managementrnchallenges. Integration of these alternatives and various materials are evaluated with the usernprocess templates as means to analyze resource needs and improve project planning.rnThe analysis of resource needs discussed in this paper identified an existing disconnect betweenrnthe approved baseline plan and the current DNFSB milestones (94-1/2000-1 implementationrnplan). The existing plan shows the milestones tied to completion of stabilization instead of atrnfull compliance (stabilization and packaging) with DOE-STD-3013, where as the milestonerndescription specifically requires full compliance for metals with the standard. An output of thisrnanalysis identified two significant management challenges that must be directly confronted inrnorder for the Plutonium Finishing Plant to continue to succeed. First is completion of metalrnstabilization by the milestone of 3/31/2001. The second challenge is radiological dosernmanagement.