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Management should ensure that effective management and independent self-assessments are being conducted periodically by qualified personnel.

Continued Operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory: Recovery and Storage of Strontium-90 (Sr-90) Fueled Radioisotope Thermal Electric Generators at Los Alamos National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy 2004 Annual Report, report2004.pdf

Access a Decision and Order issued in 2003.

Subject: Office of Inspector General’s combined Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 Annual Performance Results and FY 2003 Annual Performance Plan

The Savannah River Site Environmental Report for 2003 is an overview of effluent monitoring and environmental surveillance activities conducted on...

ELECTRIC SYSTEM INVESTIGATION TEAM : 8 RELIABILITY RECOMMENDATION CONSULTATION

The Department has not clearly defined the termination point of the Cold Standby Program. Initially, the Department's Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology (Nuclear Energy) coordinated the end of Cold Standby with the deployment of a government-funded gas centrifuge facility. The plans called for the Cold Standby mission to end in September 2005 with centrifuge production reaching adequate levels by September 2008. Under those assumptions, there would be a minimum one-year gap in backup domestic enrichment capability, representing the time between the latest possible resumption of gaseous diffusion operations and the planned full operation of the governmentfunded gas centrifuge facility. However, the government-funded centrifuge program was never implemented, and in 2002, the Department negotiated with the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) to deploy a commercial gas centrifuge facility. Under USEC's plan, comparable enrichment production will begin in September 2011, increasing the amount of time between the possibility of restarting the Portsmouth facility and the deployment of a new commercial centrifuge to a minimum of three years.