Follow-up Audit on Stockpile Surveillance Testing
Significant backlogs existed in each of the three types of tests
Surveillance Testing conducted in the Surveillance Testing Program---laboratory tests,
flight tests, and component tests---as of September 30? 2005.
Laboratory tests are conducted on weapons' non-nuclear systems
to detect defects due to handling, aging, manufacturing, or
design. Flight tests involve dropping or launching a weapon,
with its nuclear components removed, to assess performance and
reliability. Component tests involve the destructive analysis of
the five primary weapon components: pits, secondaries,
detonators, cable assemblies, and the gas transfer valves systems
to identify defects or failures. Although it made progress in
reducing the backlog for a number of systems, the surveillance
testing backlog actually increased for the majority of systems and
components during the five-year period from Fiscal Year (FY)
2000 to 2005.
Surveillance Testing conducted in the Surveillance Testing Program---laboratory tests,
flight tests, and component tests---as of September 30? 2005.
Laboratory tests are conducted on weapons' non-nuclear systems
to detect defects due to handling, aging, manufacturing, or
design. Flight tests involve dropping or launching a weapon,
with its nuclear components removed, to assess performance and
reliability. Component tests involve the destructive analysis of
the five primary weapon components: pits, secondaries,
detonators, cable assemblies, and the gas transfer valves systems
to identify defects or failures. Although it made progress in
reducing the backlog for a number of systems, the surveillance
testing backlog actually increased for the majority of systems and
components during the five-year period from Fiscal Year (FY)
2000 to 2005.
Significant backlogs existed in each of the three types of tests
Surveillance Testing conducted in the Surveillance Testing Program---laboratory tests,
flight tests, and component tests---as of September 30? 2005.
Laboratory tests are conducted on weapons' non-nuclear systems
to detect defects due to handling, aging, manufacturing, or
design. Flight tests involve dropping or launching a weapon,
with its nuclear components removed, to assess performance and
reliability. Component tests involve the destructive analysis of
the five primary weapon components: pits, secondaries,
detonators, cable assemblies, and the gas transfer valves systems
to identify defects or failures. Although it made progress in
reducing the backlog for a number of systems, the surveillance
testing backlog actually increased for the majority of systems and
components during the five-year period from Fiscal Year (FY)
2000 to 2005.
Surveillance Testing conducted in the Surveillance Testing Program---laboratory tests,
flight tests, and component tests---as of September 30? 2005.
Laboratory tests are conducted on weapons' non-nuclear systems
to detect defects due to handling, aging, manufacturing, or
design. Flight tests involve dropping or launching a weapon,
with its nuclear components removed, to assess performance and
reliability. Component tests involve the destructive analysis of
the five primary weapon components: pits, secondaries,
detonators, cable assemblies, and the gas transfer valves systems
to identify defects or failures. Although it made progress in
reducing the backlog for a number of systems, the surveillance
testing backlog actually increased for the majority of systems and
components during the five-year period from Fiscal Year (FY)
2000 to 2005.
Significant backlogs existed in each of the three types of tests Surveillance Testing conducted in the Surveillance Testing Program---laboratory tests, flight tests, and component tests---as of September 30? 2005. Laboratory tests are conducted on w...
Drug Testing For Security Positions at DOE's Portsmouth and PaducahSites" (S051S036)
In 1993, both plants were leased to the United States Enrichment Corporation, a privately owned government created entity, to enrich uranium for sale to commercial nuclear reactors, currently, Paducah enriches and sells uranium.
Emergency Response Training at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Remediation of the Waste Burial Grounds at the Hanford Site
In 2005. ~ h cD epartment of Energy (Department) contracted with
WashingLon Closure tdanford to clean up over 210 square miles
acliacent to the Colur1~biaR iver. Part of this effort is to develop a
I-ernediation solution for the 6 18- 10 and 6 18- 1 1 burial grounds.
The Department and Washington Closure Hanl'ord are curl-ently
assessing various methods for exhuming these bur-ial g~.ounds,
including the potential implementation of the two nicthods funded
by the Department's research and development progl-am to retrieve
the waste: sleeve encapsulation and in-situ vilrification.
WashingLon Closure tdanford to clean up over 210 square miles
acliacent to the Colur1~biaR iver. Part of this effort is to develop a
I-ernediation solution for the 6 18- 10 and 6 18- 1 1 burial grounds.
The Department and Washington Closure Hanl'ord are curl-ently
assessing various methods for exhuming these bur-ial g~.ounds,
including the potential implementation of the two nicthods funded
by the Department's research and development progl-am to retrieve
the waste: sleeve encapsulation and in-situ vilrification.
The Bonneville Power Administration's Conservation and Renewables Discount Conservation and Rate Credit Programs