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Pre-Decisional Working DraftComplex Transformation

Spring 2008 Environmental Management Roundtable May 22, 2008

Ted Wyka, NNSA

Pantex Plant Savannah River SiteKansas City Plant Y-12 Plant

Sandia Nevada Test Site Los Alamos Lawrence Livermore

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Pre-Decisional Working Draft

NNSA’s ChallengesCreate a smaller, safer, more secure, and less expensive enterprise that

leverages the scientific and technical capabilities of the workforce, and meets national security requirements.

While we are meeting security requirements today,

• The nuclear weapons complex is too big and too old and too costly.

• Capability and facilities required to support a large Cold-war era stockpile are no longer necessary or affordable.

• Without facility changes, more funding will be required for programmatic actions and facility maintenance and operations support.

• Special nuclear materials (SNM) are present at more sites then we believe are needed, and are more and more expensive to secure.

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Defense Programs M&O Contractor Employment

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Historical Changes

Weapons Complex Site Reductions Weapons Complex Footprint Reductions

Weapons Complex Employment Reductions

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NuclearPostureReview

2001

Weapons stockpile reduced by morethan 50% since 2001

Nuclear Posture Review

2006

ComplexTransformation

Draft SPEIS

2007

• Complex TransformationFinal SPEIS – August

• Complex TransformationSPEIS ROD - Fall

• Transform the nuclear weapons stockpile

• Transform physical infrastructure

• Employ best businesspractices

• Advance the science and technology base

ComplexTransformation Proposal

2008

2009

• Implement SPEIS ROD(s)o Restructure SNM Facilities

* Plutonium* Enriched Uranium* Assembly/Disassembly

o Restructure R&D and Testing Facilities

2012

2005

ImplementTransformation

Plans

Transformation Timeline

SEABDSB

KCRIMSNon- nuclear

Transformation

Strategy1,2,3,& 4

2018

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Strategy 1: StockpileDirected Stockpile Work participants are enabling stockpile transformation to

support a sustainable future stockpile, while fully supporting the safety, security, and reliability of today’s stockpile.

Science, Engineering and Production Programs Team are leading Defense Programs in:

– Balancing the enduring stockpile with emerging requirements.– Emphasizing first production of the W76-1 and ramp-up to full rate production.– Maintaining accelerated weapons dismantlement rates.– Reducing support for the W80 Stockpile Systems activities– Initiating B61 Refurbishment Study– Shifting from RRW program (closed out in FY 2008) to revitalized Life Extension

Options program to maintain the enduring stockpile.

Stockpile transformation will be very dynamic over the next few years:– Bipartisan commission established to provide a report on our national strategic

defense policy.– An updated nuclear posture review by the next Administration.– NNSA has a Complex that must be transformed to support ANY stockpile

strategy

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Strategy 2: Physical InfrastructureFocus on completing Complex Transformation Final SPEIS

and supporting 2008 Record(s) of Decision

Preferred Alternative = Distributed Centers of Excellence

Experiments

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Pre-Decisional Working DraftDraft SPEIS Restructure of SNM Facilities Alternatives

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Pre-Decisional Working DraftNo Action Alternative

• Continued implementation of decisions made pursuant to the SSM PEIS, site-wide EISs and EAs.

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• Main decisions are related to plutonium pit production:– Upgrade facilities at Los Alamos (2 upgrade options: up to

80 pits/year or 125 pits/year)– Build a new facility (125 pits/year)

• Los Alamos• Nevada Test Site• Pantex• Savannah River Site• Y-12

• Pantex would continue assembly/disassembly operations• Y-12 would continue enriched uranium operations (upgrade to

existing enriched uranium facilities)

Distributed Centers of Excellence Alternative

Pre-Decisional Working DraftConsolidated Centers of Excellence Alternative

• Consolidate plutonium pit production, enriched uranium operations, and assembly/disassembly at one or two sites – “Consolidated Nuclear Production Center” (CNPC)– “Consolidated Nuclear Centers” (CNC)

• Five sites assessed for facilities: Los Alamos, Nevada Test Site, Pantex, Savannah River Site, Y-12

• If Pantex or Y-12 are not selected as facility siting location for this option, weapons operations at those sites would cease

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Capability-Based Alternative

• Maintain basic capability for manufacturing components for all stockpile weapons, and laboratory capabilities to support stockpile decisions

• Reduce production facilities to “capability-based” capacity – capability to manufacture and assemble nuclear weapons at a nominal level

– No Consolidated Plutonium Center– Capacity of approximately 50 weapons/year– Reduced production capacities at Y-12, Savannah River

Site, and Pantex

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SNM Consolidation

• NNSA is pursuing SNM consolidation under all programmatic alternatives:

– Remove Category I/II SNM from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by 2012

– Consolidate Category I/II SNM from Zone 4 to Zone 12 at Pantex

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Pre-Decisional Working DraftDraft SPEIS Restructure R&D and Testing Alternatives

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Pre-Decisional Working DraftPreferred Alternative Restructure SNM Facilities

Pursue Distributed Centers of Excellence as follows:

• Plutonium Manufacturing and R&D – Los Alamos would provide up to 80 pits/year with upgrades to the Plutonium Facility (PF-4) and by construction and operation of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement - Nuclear Facility

• Uranium Manufacturing and R&D – Y-12 would continue as the uranium center. Independent of this SPEIS, NNSA is completing construction of a new storage facility and will consolidate highly enriched uranium storage in that facility; and can proceed with the preliminary design of a Uranium Processing Facility that could be located at any of the sites under consideration in this SPEIS

• Assembly/Disassembly/High Explosives (A/D/HE) Production and Manufacturing: Pantex would remain the A/D/HE production and manufacturing center

• Consolidation of Category I/II SNM: Consolidate Category I/II SNM at Pantex within Zone 12 and close Zone 4; and continue phase-out of Category I/II operations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Superblock by the end of 2012

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• HE R&D – Reduce footprint and number of test sites• Tritium R&D – Consolidate tritium R&D at SRS• NNSA Flight Testing – Cease NNSA operation of

TTR in 2009, use DoD facility, and no SNM in future tests

• Hydrodynamic Testing – Cease open air hydrotesting at LANL and LLNL in 2009; close CFF at LLNL in 2015; plan for DARHT replacement at NTS in 2025-timeframe

• Major Environmental Test Facilities – Consolidate at SNL/NM and use Category I/II SNM in campaign mode; move LLNL SNM environmental testing to Pantex by 2012; as SNL/NM facilities age plan to replace them at NTS

Preferred AlternativeRestructure R&D and Testing Facilities

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If NNSA decides to implement the current preferred alternative, as well as the vision for

Complex Transformation -NNSA Complex would:

– Eliminate redundancies and improve efficiencies by consolidating missions and capabilities:

• Consolidating special nuclear materials to 5 sites by the end of 2012, with a smaller footprint within those sites by 2017

• Ceasing NNSA operation of TTR and LLNL Site 300 • Closing or transferring weapons activities from about 600 buildings or

structures, many by 2010• Reducing footprint of buildings and structures supporting weapons

missions by about 9 million square feet– Reduce nuclear weapons personnel by 20-30%. These reductions are

expected through natural attrition and transfer of personnel to other positions supporting essential national security needs

Future Complex

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Pre-Decisional Working DraftDraft SPEIS 90-Day Public

Comment Period Extended to 4/30/08

• 20 Public Hearings (~85 hours)– 2400 people attended– 625 provided oral comments

• Approximately 100,000 plus email comments to date (largely from 22 campaigns)

• 15,000 petition comments

• Letters and cards coming in

• Several hundred thousand specific comments expected

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Draft SPEISPhase 1 BCAs

SPEIS = Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact StatementBCA = Business Case Analyses of economic costs, risk, and mission compatibility issuesNOA = Notice of Availability issued in Federal RegisterROD = Record of Decision

12/18/2007

Roll-Out

Public Comment Phase 2 BCAs

NOA1/11/2008

Final SPEIS

~ 8/29/2008

CY 2007

20Public

Hearings

CommentResponse

Documentation

Release to Publicof

Final SPEISand

Preferred Alternatives ReportOn Supplemental Information Supporting

Decisions Informed by the Final SPEIS

Minimum WaitingPeriod

30 Days

RODFall ‘08

CY 2008

Making Decisions Informed by Final SPEIS

NA-1

NA-1

July 2008 Briefings toSelect Final

Preferred Alternative

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Content of Draft SPEIS

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SPEIS Impact Assessments

• Land• Air Quality• Water Resources• Biotic Resources• Cultural Resources• Waste Management• Infrastructure

• Socioeconomics• Environmental Justice• Human Health• Accidents• Transportation• Cumulative Impacts• Intentional Destructive

Acts - Classified Appendix

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Strategy 3: Business Systems

Common ITArchitecture

PRIDENA-65

Program Mgt Initiatives

WFO CostRecovery

Svc Ctr Risk MgtSafety & SecurityNA-70

Supply ChainMgt Center

NA-63

RMI –Product

Realization

Indirect Cost

ReductionsSvc Ctr

ContractingStrategy

RFI 2NA-63

STRATEGY 3ACTIVITIES

Creating a lower cost, integrated,

and interdependent enterprise

requires many initiatives and the

partnership of many organizations

across NNSA.

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Pre-Decisional Working DraftStrategy 4: Science & Technology

• NA-10 Planning – Integration of Science, Engineering and ICF roadmaps

• Focus Area 4 – White paper signed by the Undersecretary for Science, the

Administrator and lab directors articulating a national securityscience vision for the NNSA laboratories

• Work with Others – Concept under development to streamline the WFO Program

for other federal agencies, non-Federal agencies, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, cooperative agreements, user facilities, and strategic alliances with mission partners

• Strategic Alliances – 5 topics for potential pilot strategic alliances with the DoD

DDR&E

• External Panel Study– “Leveraging National Laboratory S&T Assets for 21st Century

Security” – Stimson Center

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NNSA Sites

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Savannah River Site (SRS)

Center of Excellence for Operations involving large quantities of Tritium• Tritium production R&D and supply management facilities- R&D to support gas transfer system design

•Central Location for Processing of Surplus Weapons-Usable Special Nuclear Material- Fabrication of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies- Processing of plutonium and HEU at H-canyon

Transformational Changes• Few immediate changes to site infrastructure as currently planned• Over next decade, up to 5% fewer staff supporting nuclear weaponsactivities. These reductions are expected through natural attrition andtransfer of personnel to other positions supporting essential nationalsecurity needs.

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Y-12 National Security Complex

Transformational Changes• Special nuclear material consolidated• 90% reduction: high security area• 60% reduction: nuclear operations footprint• 50% reduction: total building footprint (~3.1 million GSF gone including Production Bldg 9201-

05 613K GSF; Production Bldg 9212 440K GSF; Production Bldg 9204-04 313K GSF)• Over next decade, up to 30% reduction of staff directly supporting nuclear weapons activities

2007

Future

Center of Excellence for Uranium and Canned Subassemblies• Highly-Enriched Uranium (HEU) storage with HEU Materials Facility (HEUMF)• HEU Production and R&D with Uranium Processing Facility (UPF)• Production of remaining non-HEU components with consolidated manufacturing complex (CMC)

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Pantex Plant

Existing now; gone in future Existing now and in future New in future

Center of Excellence forAssembly/ Disassembly; High Explosives (HE) Production & Machining

Non-destructive weapon/ pit surveillance with existing Weapons Engineering and Testing Lab (WETL) and new Weapons Surveillance Facility (WSF)• Updated HE machining and production facilities• Weapon and pit storage with new underground Zone 12 storage facility

Transformational Changes• Special nuclear material consolidated, enabled by Zone

4 closure• 45% reduction: high security perimeter• 25% reduction: total building footprint• Over next decade, from 5% to 10% reduction of staff

directly supporting nuclear weapons activities

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Nevada Test Site (NTS)

Center of Excellence for High-hazard testing• Large-scale, (confined and open-air) high-explosive testing (>10 kg) with BEEF• Hydrodynamic testing

Subcritical and plutonium experiments with U1A and JASPER

Criticality experiments and special nuclear material operations at the Device Assembly Facility

Transformational ChangesFew changes to site infrastructure as currently planned, however:

– Control Point 1 decommissioned and demolished– Facility operations transferred to NSTEC

• Over next decade, up to 20% reduction of staff directly supporting nuclear weapons activities as indirect & overhead efficiencies are achieved and work-for-others expanded.

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Kansas City Plant

NOTIONAL

2007 2012Center of Excellence for Non-nuclear Production and Sourcing• New GSA-leased facility to support ~40 major product lines (e.g., radars, reservoirs, fire-sets)• NNSA supply chain management center and increased component out-sourcing• Improved business practices and application of industry standards

Transformational Changes• 67% reduction: Weapons Account footprint by moving from 3.1M GSF Bannister Road facility

to ~1M GSF new GSA-leased facility• 15% increase: component outsourcing percentage• Over next decade, up to 30% reduction of staff directly supporting nuclear weapons activities

* Non-nuclear production is not included as a Draft Complex Transformation SPEIS. The Draft SPEIS addresses restructuring of SNM facilities and major R&D and testing facilities.

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Liquid WasteHandling

Pu Science

Solid WasteHandling

Pu Manufacturing

Solid WasteHandling

Solid WasteHandling

2007Nuclear Material Science

Pu Science &Manufacturing

For bothLANL and

LLNL

Pu Science &Manufacturing

For bothLANL and

LLNLNuclear Waste

HandlingNuclear Waste

Handling

~2017

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Center of Excellence for Nuclear Design and Engineering; Plutonium

• Supercomputing platform host site• Plutonium pit production and R&D with TA-55 including a Chemistry & Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR), Nuclear Facility • Detonator production and contained high explosives (HE) R&D• Materials research with Matter-Radiation Interaction in Extremes facility as potential science magnet

Transformational Changes• Special nuclear material consolidated to 2 sites, with only one requiring CAT I/II levels of security• 50% reduction: nuclear operations footprint• 20% reduction: total building footprint (~2 million GSF reduction including CMR 570K GSF;

Technology Complex 380K GSF; and Main Admin Bldg 309K GSF)• Over next decade, up to 20% reduction of staff directly supporting nuclear weapons activities

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Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia/New Mexico• Consolidate non-nuclear

components design and engineering and major environmental testing

Sandia/New Mexico• Consolidate non-nuclear

components design and engineering and major environmental testing

Sandia/California• Transition site to

multi-agency lab

Sandia/California• Transition site to

multi-agency lab

Tonopah Test Range• Cease NNSA operation

in 2009

Tonopah Test Range• Cease NNSA operation

in 2009

Transformational Changes• CAT I/II special nuclear material removed in 2008• Revised flight testing strategy for gravity weapons that opens Tonopah Test Range (179,000

acres) for other uses• Over next decade, up to 20% reduction of staff directly supporting nuclear weapons activities

Center of Excellence for Non-Nuclear Design and Engineering; Major Environmental Testing

Microelectronics & Engineering Science Applications (MESA) complex as engineering magnet

Weapons environmental testing with TA-3 and other NM facilities

Energetic Devices R&D with Explosives Test Facility

Neutron generator design and manufacturing facilities

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Pre-Decisional Working DraftLawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Center of Excellence for Nuclear Design and Engineering; High Explosive R&D Center• Supercomputing platform host site• HE R&D with High Explosive Applications Facility as Center for formulation, processing, and confined testing (<10kg)• High Energy Density Physics with National Ignition Facility as science magnet

Transformational Changes• CAT I/II quantities of special nuclear material removed from site by end of 2012 and down-

grading of “Superblock” buildings 332 & 334• 90% reduction: in acreage supported by Weapons Account with status change for Site 300• 30% reduction: buildings and structures supported by Weapons Account• Over next decade, up to 20% reduction of staff directly supporting nuclear weapons activities

Status Change

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Pre-Decisional Working DraftDefense ProgramsGetting the Job Done in FY 2008!

• Deliver limited life components and alteration kits to the Department of Defense and complete all scheduled surveillance activities.

• Down-select the W76 Life Extension Program (LEP) canned sub-assembly by June 2008.• Deliver B61-7/11 LEP units to the Air Force on time.• Exceed the scheduled weapon dismantlement quantities at Pantex and secondaries at Y-12, and approve

the W88 SS-21 Hazard Analysis Reports by September 2008.• Manufacture at least six new W88 pits and install equipment in FY 2008 to increase pit capacity to 80 pits

per year by the operational date of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) Replacement Nuclear Facility.

• Complete and apply the Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications (MESA) Project (2008), Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) Facility (2008), Omega Extended Performance (EP) (2008), Criticality Experiments Facility (CEF) (2010), and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) (2010) to support the science basis for warhead design, assessment and certification.

• Incorporate a new physics-based model to reduce uncertainty in weapons performance.

• Remove 11 metric tons of special nuclear material (SNM) from NNSA sites for disposition.• Complete the Final Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact

Statement by August 2008.• Complete construction of the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility (HEUMF) by August 2008.

February 2008

Complex Transformation Implementation:

Defense Programs is committed to managing nuclear weapons activities and costs more uniformly, including developing a National Work Breakdown Structure in FY 2008.

___________________________________________________Robert L. Smolen, Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs (NA-10)

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