DOE EM’s 2022 Priorities to Advance Cleanup Mission

Source: Energy.gov & EM Update | Vol. 14, Issue 2 | January 18, 2022

EM has established its key priorities for calendar year 2022, covering planned cleanup, project construction, acquisition and other important accomplishments to advance EM’s environmental and risk-reduction mission.

“Our many accomplishments in 2021 positioned EM to achieve an equally challenging slate of priorities in 2022,” EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White said. “Our 2022 priorities underscore our goals to accomplish cleanup that is safe and protective of our workforce, the public and the environment, and in a manner that is transparent to the communities that host and support our sites.”

MISSION STATEMENT:

To complete the safe cleanup of the environmental legacy brought about from decades of nuclear weapons development and govenment-sponsored nuclear energy research.

PRIORITY #1: ACHIEVE SIGNIFICANT CONSTRUCTION MILESTONES

Complete cold commisioning of the first WTP meter at Handford
Begin construction of K-East Reactor Cocooning Enclosure at Handford
Begin construction fo the AMC Facility at Savannah River
Complete all concrete placements for SDU-9 at Savannah River
Complete construction of New Filter Building for SSCVS at WIPP

PRIORITY #2: EXECUTE KEY CLEANUP PROJECTS

Begin tank waste pre-treatment at Handford through TSCR operations
Complete processing of 100 sodium-bearing waste containers at the IWTU at Idaho
Complete all Subsurface Disposial Area buried wast remediation at Idaho
Treat 4 million gallons of tank waste at Savannah River
Complete demolition of the X-326 process building at Portsmouth
Begin hot cell processing pf the high-activity uranium-233 inventory at Oak Ridge
Insta equipment to support Los Alamos transuranic waste removal for WCS
Complete 30 shipments of transuranis waste for Los Alamos to WIPP
Compete 50 Percent of West Access Drift Mining at WIPP
Begin demolition of Main Plant Process Building at West Valley
Complete demolition og remaining ancillary support facilities at West Valley
Diposition 1 million poundsof hazardous refrigerant from Paducah
Begin demolition of the TCC and EMAD facilities in Navada
Bein demolition of Building B251 at Lawerance Livermore National Laboratory
Complete remediation pf the D1G Ditch Area at Naval Reactors’ Kesselring Site

PRIORITY #3: REDUCE THE EM FOOTPRINT

Transfere former Biology Complex footprint at Oak Ridge to NNSA

PRIORITY #4: AWARD CONTRACTS THAT ENABLE ACCELERATED PROGRESS

Award new Handford Intergrated Tank Disposition Contract
Award new WIPP Management-and-Operations Contract
Award new Moab Cleanup Contract
Award new WIPP Transportation Contract

PRIORITY #5: DRIVE INNNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY AN IMPROVE PERFORMANCE

Issue 2022-2032 Update of EM Strategic Vision and New EM Program Plan
Impement EJ40 piolet project at Los Alamos
Complete EM-wide succession pane to build and develop diverse workforce
Update climate vulnerability assesments for all EM sites

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/EM-CY22-Priorities-One-Page-220106.pdf