April, 2018

Enterprise Assessments Assessment of the Development and Maintenance of Safety Bases at Los Alamos National Laboratory – April 2018

Development and Maintenance of Safety Bases at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Safety and Environmental Assessments, within the independent Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA), conducted an assessment of the development and maintenance of safety bases by the Los Alamos National Security, LLC and the National Nuclear Security Administration - Los Alamos Field Office. As part of this assessment, EA assessed the effectiveness of corrective actions taken to resolve recurring weaknesses in the safety basis processes at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). An EA team was on site at LANL from September 11-15, 2017, to obtain documents for this assessment. EA reviewed this documentation through November 2017.