SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Treat Hanford Contact-Handled Transuranic Tank Waste - Request for Interest
- Notice Date
- 7/11/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Washington River Protection Solutions, LLC., Office of River Protection, 2440 Stevens Center Place, MSIN H6-16, Richland, Washington, 99354, United States
- ZIP Code
- 99354
- Solicitation Number
- WRPS_55519_CH_TRU_RFI
- Archive Date
- 8/30/2013
- Point of Contact
- Tess Klatt, Phone: 5093764489
- E-Mail Address
-
Tess_A_Klatt@rl.gov
(Tess_A_Klatt@rl.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Request for Expression of Interest Hanford has generated a variety of solid and liquid radioactive waste streams over its many years of operations. Waste streams associated with the earliest bismuth-phosphate spent fuel separations process, primarily in the 1940's through 1950's, have been stored within two SST tank farms: 241-B and 241-T. Pumpable liquids have been removed from these tanks, so that only solid sludges remain, with various concentration of water. These sludges contain minimal high-dose radioactive isotopes compared to high-level waste (e.g., cesium-137), but do contain sufficient quantities of long-lived transuranic (TRU) elements to qualify for disposal at WIPP as contact handled (CH-TRU). Chemical contents of the tanks are not uniform, both within tank layers and between tanks, however all tanks generally have a high concentration (typical E+04 micrograms per gram) of the following anions and cations: bismuth, carbonate, iron, lanthanum, manganese, sodium, nitrates, and phosphates. The DOE/ORP initiated a project in 2003 to retrieve, package, characterize, and ship this waste to WIPP. The project was halted in 2005 to wait for completion of a revised National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) permitting approach. The primary NEPA document for moving forward with this project is the Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement, which was issued in December, 2012. Subsequently, DOE announced in the Federal Register Notice (FR Vol. 78 No. 47) the selection of WIPP as the preferred alternate for this waste's disposal and its intent to issue a Record of Decision, formally qualifying the NEPA approach. Four of these eleven tanks have been previously identified over the last several decades as either having leaked or assumed as having leaked tank contents to the soil. Recent evaluations of tank levels as part of the tank integrity program have identified the potential additional leakage from a previous leaker, T-111, and the potential for leakage from two new CH-TRU tanks. The ongoing successful resolution of NEPA coverage and increased environmental damage from leaking tanks has triggered the reactivation of project planning.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Hanford Site, Richland, Washington, 99354, United States
- Zip Code: 99354
- Zip Code: 99354
- Record
- SN03113261-W 20130713/130711234631-8115e93fa7fd1b150093fdf34e0e372c (fbodaily.com)
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