D&D Support to Outside Customers

Argonne National Laboratory’s D&D Projects Group has been providing technical support to various DOE organizations, including:

• Tokomak Fusion Test Reactor at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory,
• Los Alamos National Laboratory,
• Brookhaven National Laboratory,
• Savannah River Site,
• Mound Site,
• Battelle Columbus Laboratories,
• Hanford N Reactor,
• Fernald,
• West Valley Demonstration Project.

Additionally, the Argonne D&D Projects Group provides technical support to various non-DOE organizations, including:

• The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) for the decommissioning of a research reactor at their Plum Brook Research Facility,
• the International Atomic Energy Agency,
• the OECD/NEA Technical Advisory Group on Decommissioning,
• the U.S. Army Aberdeen Fast Pulsed Reactor Facility, and
• other foreign reactor facilities.

NASA-Plum Brook Reactor Facility Decommissioning Project

A team of Argonne D&D subject matter experts have been assigned to the decommissioning of the NASA Plum Brook Reactor Facility (PBRF) for over the last 5 years, providing direct technical support to NASA in the areas of construction management, radiation safety, licensing and quality assurance oversight, and industrial safety.

In addition, two D&D training courses were developed and taught at the NASA project site, several years apart, as part of the training of newly assigned project personnel.

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