Site Selection for Concrete Batch Plant to Support Plutonium Disposition Facilities at the Savannah River Site.

[摘要] The purpose of this site selection exercise was to identify, assess, and rank candidate sites for an onsite concrete batch plant to support construction of the proposed plutonium disposition facilities (PDF) at Savannah River Site (SRS) in the vicinity of F-Area. The site is to be sized for concrete production to support the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility and the Pit Disassembly & Conversion Facility being constructed concurrently. In May 2001 NNSA directed WSRC to complete this site selection effort, but to stop work on plans to prepare the selected site. A decision on the need for building a concrete batch plant on the SRS to service the PDF has been delayed until execution strategy for constructing the facilities is finalized. A panel of nine members developed five exclusion criteria and initially selected five candidate sites. Fourteen ranking criteria were established and sites were scored for each criterion. Site 1 was not evaluated because it was discovered that it was crossed by power lines that would prohibit development. In order of highest to lowest score, the sites ranked as Site 3, Site 5, Site 4, and Site 2. It was concluded that Site 3 was the preferred site with Site 5 as an acceptable alternate. However, it is noted that all four sites appear to be acceptable for construction and operation of a batch plant. As this site selection study was being completed, the NNSA initiated a revision of the execution strategy for construction the PDFs. Should the final execution strategy for the PDFs alter the assumptions under which this siting study was conducted, then the siting recommendations should be revisited and revised accordingly.

[发布机构] Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

[学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）

[关键词] Plutonium disposition;Site selection;Ranking criteria;Assessments;Identification