Assessment of Radioactive Waste Management at the Oak Ridge Reservation Environmental Management Projects
Office of Enterprise Assessments
April 29, 2020
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April 2020
Assessment of Radioactive Waste Management at the Oak Ridge Reservation Environmental Management Projects
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 waste management performance at the Oak Ridge Reservation (Oak Ridge). At Oak Ridge, the DOE Environmental Management (EM) radioactive waste management program is implemented by URS CH2M Hill Oak Ridge, LLC (UCOR), North Wind Solutions, LLC (North Wind), and Isotek Systems, LLC (Isotek). Waste management activities include characterizing, packaging, and shipping radioactive waste.