Summary
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for Off-site Depleted Uranium Manufacturing (DOE/EA-2252). The EA assesses the potential environmental impacts of conducting supplemental depleted uranium (DU) manufacturing in three commercial facilities:
- The Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) Test and Demonstration Facility (TDF), located at 350 Centrifuge Way in Oak Ridge, approximately 0.75 miles northeast of Y-12;
- The Manufacturing Sciences Corporation (MSC) facility, located at 804 S. Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge, approximately 0.7 miles northeast of Y-12; and
- The Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee (AOT) facility, located at 1367 Old State Route 34 in Jonesborough, Tennessee, approximately 100 miles east of Y-12.
NNSA subsequently issued a supplemental EA for the Construction to Support Initial Production of High-Purity Depleted Uranium Project (DOE/EA-2252-S1).