DD progress at United States Department of Energy sites: practical implementation oflessons learned from Rocky Flats

摘要

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has contracted for the cleanup and closure of formernuclear facilities sites using turn-key, performance-based incentive contracts that integrate the complete range ofproject management, decontamination and demolition, waste management, and environmental restorationstrategies. This paper describes, from the contractor's perspective, several of the decommissioning strategiesdeveloped during the $7 billion decommissioning of the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, andsubsequently deployed to other DOE nuclear decommissioning programs. Lessons learned from the approachestaken at Rocky Flats and deployed to decommissioning programs at the DOE Hanford, Mound, Idaho, andSavannah River Sites include management, contractual, regulatory, and technological aspects of the work.