Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Pilot Project An Integrated Approach to Accelerate Facility Disposition

摘要

Over the next 70 years the US Department of Energy (DOE) will spend more than $50 billion to deactivate, decommission and dismantle (D&D) facilities throughout its complex of production sites and Laboratories. This amount of funding will be difficult to obtain in an era of level or declining Federal budget. Therefore, the DOE must find more efficient, less costly ways to dispose of excess facilities. The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) Pilot Project demonstrated an innovative, integrated, systems approach that offers opportunities to achieve significant savings in the long term. The INEEL concluded that this methodology would achieve significant efficiencies and improvement in their baseline over the life of the D&D program.