Title: PERFORMANCE MEASURES IN THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL AND FACILITY STABILIZATION AND THEIR DEPENDENCY ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Abstract: The Office of Nuclear Material and Facility Stabilization plays a key role in the Nation’s nuclear weapons cleanup program. The mission of the Office of Nuclear Material and Facility Stabilization is to first achieve stabilization of the nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuel that our program is responsible for and then prepare both for eventual disposal. Deactivation of the buildings is also a major goal within our program since a building must be deactivated before it can be finally decommissioned. Effectiveness in these roles has become increasingly important to the Environmental Management (EM) program because stabilizing, monitoring, and maintaining the large quantity of nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuels and deactivating excess facilities, thereby reducing the risks and associated “mortgages,” is one of the most urgent tasks in the EM Program. Nuclear material and spent nuclear fuel stabilization activities and deactivation activities support the Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Quality strategic objective to, “Reduce the most serious risks from the environmental legacy of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex first.” The Office of Nuclear Material and Facility Stabilization’s performance measures have been developed to clearly demonstrate the program results achieved for the resources requested. They also serve as a management tool and measure mission effectiveness. This paper describes current performance measures used in our program and demonstrates how science and technology plays a major role in contributing to the success of achieving the performance measures that have been developed to correlate to key areas of our mission--stabilization, disposition, and deactivation.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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