Assessment of Radioactive Waste Management at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Office of Enterprise Assessments
April 15, 2020
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April 2019
Assessment of Radioactive Waste Management at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
This assessment is in response to the Deputy Secretary of Energy’s July 9, 2019, memorandum directing the Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) to undertake a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-wide assessment of the procedures and practices for packaging and shipping radioactive waste. The assessment activities focused on the waste management performance of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) management and operating contractor UT-Battelle, LLC (UT-B) and oversight provided by the ORNL Site Office (OSO). UT-B waste management activities include characterizing, packaging, and shipping low-level waste (LLW) and mixed low-level waste (MLLW) and characterizing and packaging transuranic (TRU) waste for disposal.