Savannah River National Laboratory Infrastructure Investment Plan · SRNL-MS-2019-00105 Revision 0 . 2019-05-28 Page . 4. of . 15. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . The purpose of this SRNL Infrastructure

Savannah River National Laboratory Infrastructure Investment Plan May 2019 2019-05-28 SRNL-MS-2019-00105

SRNL-MS-2019-00105 Revision 0

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CONTENTS ACRONYMS .............................................................................................................................................................3

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................................4

1.0 SRNL INFRASTRUCTURE BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................5

2.0 SRNL APPROACH TO TARGETED INVESTMENT .......................................................................................6

3.0 MISSION ASSUMPTIONS AS INPUT TO ANALYSIS ...................................................................................6

4.0 RESULTS OF SRNL INFRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS ..................................................................................6

5.0 SRNL STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE VISION ..........................................................................................7

6.0 CURRENT SRNL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT PROGRAMS/PROJECTS ......................................8

7.0 CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................................. 11

8.0 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................... 11

9.0 ATTACHMENTS .............................................................................................................................................. 11


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ACRONYMS AMC Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative DOE Department of Energy DOE-SR DOE-Savannah River Operations Office DOE-EM DOE Office of Environmental Management DSA Documented Safety Analysis ESS SRS Essential Site Services IGPP Institutional General Plant Projects NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA-SRFO NNSA Savannah River Field Office ROM Rough Order of Magnitude SRNL Savannah River National Laboratory SRNL-IRP SRNL Infrastructure Revitalization Program SRS Savannah River Site SRTE Savannah River Tritium Enterprise


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this SRNL Infrastructure Investment Plan is to describe the initiatives currently in progress to revitalize the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) infrastructure necessary to support SRNL’s critical national missions. SRNL Program growth projections are discussed in the SRNL Institutional and Program Plans. Those plans project that we will continue missions supporting the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and other federal agencies related to national security. Comments from the most recent Nuclear Posture Review are directly applicable to SRNL at the present. Even if there is no growth of SRNL missions in the coming decades, it is recognized that infrastructure must be revitalized, or our current missions are at risk of failure. SRNL has recently developed a collaborative approach to funding infrastructure revitalization, which has been endorsed by DOE-Savannah River and the NNSA Savannah River Field Office. This Plan provides the context behind that approach and the investment plans which have been proposed for approval.

“NNSA’s ability to achieve its vital national security missions is dependent on safe and reliable

infrastructure. If not appropriately addressed, the age and condition of NNSA’s infrastructure will put NNSA’s missions, safety of its workers, the public,

and the environment at risk.”

2018 Nuclear Posture Review


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Maintenance Investment Index continues to lag the Department goal for annual reinvestment as a ratio of Replacement Plant Value (Reference 4). Driven by the desire to find a successful investment strategy, SRNL developed a new approach to infrastructure renewal. 2.0 SRNL APPROACH TO TARGETED INVESTMENT SRNL Leadership identified two overarching goals in early FY19: 1) Understand and clearly articulate the most impactive infrastructure investments which need to be made. 2) Develop a funding approach that is primarily manageable within forecasted SRS Site budgets to minimize

requests for incremental “new” funds from DOE-Headquarters and/or Congress.

Driven by these goals, leadership performed an analysis to identify how individual facilities/systems correlate to “net positive mission impact”. Directorate leaders mapped program work activities to the physical facility in which the work is performed. Operations leaders identified the actual costs incurred to operate and maintain those facilities. This data yielded a relatively simple revenue/cost ratio giving insight into the relative importance of various facilities and systems in the SRNL portfolio. The data was then augmented with “five-year look ahead” projections for program revenue growth and required infrastructure investment to attain the predicted program growth. This led to a forward-looking Revenue/Cost ratio which ensures that focused infrastructure investments are being applied to the highest mission need. The findings from the analysis and the funding approach selected are discussed below. 3.0 MISSION ASSUMPTIONS AS INPUT TO ANALYSIS Review of the most recently published DOE-EM and NNSA strategic plans led to the following assumptions: • SRNL will continue DOE-EM support functions until FY2065 • SRNL will continue NNSA support functions in perpetuity • SRNL will continue other National Security support function in perpetuity 4.0 RESULTS OF SRNL INFRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS Summary findings of the analysis were: • Radiological Facilities (i.e. – 773-A and nuclear support systems) must endure through FY2065

o Radiological facilities are vital to our core missions; they relate directly to the intellectual capabilities which SRNL present to our customers.

o The nuclear “backbone” of the SRNL complex will not meet mission needs absent a notable investment in the coming decade.

o Large scale nuclear facility replacement is cost prohibitive in the current DOE budget climate; revitalization of the existing infrastructure is the only available option.

• SRNL’s Non-Radiological Laboratories are essential to our perpetual missions o Many of our non-radiological laboratory facilities are well past normal design life and suffer from a

dearth of investment over the last 20+ years. o Unlike the radiological facilities, the non-radiological facilities revitalization approach can be driven by

economic comparison of revitalization vs. replacement. • Administrative Facilities present a high revenue/cost ratio where knowledge-based work scope is growing


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• The ten-year program will ensure relatively level resources in the Engineering, Design, and Construction forces needed to support the effort. Level resources over the program duration will help minimize total cost over the program duration.

• The scopes included in the SRNL-IRP will be identified at the beginning of the program for agreement among appropriate stakeholders.

• It is expected that emergent events will occasionally lead to scope changes. Program scope fidelity will be maintained through periodic (at least annual) confirmation of program scope content with DOE-SR and NNSA-SRFO

• The total SRNL-IRP scope has a ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) estimate of approximately $110M. ROMs are based on parametric experience with similar scopes in the recent past in SRNL. Detail estimates are performed when design content is advanced to at least 10% to 30% scope definition (usually when a Conceptual Design package is completed). Details on the ROMs are provided in the Attachments.

A key feature of the collaborative plan is the funding strategy. Due to the current Federal budget scenarios for DOE at the complex level, it is important that the funding strategy be predominantly controllable at the SRS Site level. In other words, requests for new incremental funds above current Site funding levels have lower probability of success. Therefore, SRNL, DOE-SR, and NNSA-SRFO agreed upon the following general guidelines for funding the ~$110M program (i.e. - ~$11M per year for ten years).

Funding Source Amount (Per Year) Institutional General Plant Projects (IGPP) $2.0M SRS Essential Site Services (ESS) $6.0M Funding Source TBD $3.0M

Funding at the above levels is targeted to begin in FY21. Preparatory funding for engineering staff is targeted to begin in FY20. IGPP – With DOE concurrence, SRNL currently authorizes approximately $4.4M per year for IGPP projects. IGPP projects are typically used to advance the effectiveness of SRNL as an institution – which typically means investments in scientific capabilities and/or quality of work place issues. For the SRNL-IRP, SRNL is committing approximately $2.0M per year of the IGPP total allotment to infrastructure “back bone” type projects to extend the life of our facilities and systems. IGPP is funded out of SRNL overhead through SRNL rates charged to customers. As the IGPP budget is within SRNL control, this funding commitment is being built into our annual plans. DOE-SR concurrence of this funding will be required on an annual basis. ESS – The operation of SRNL facilities is currently funded by ESS. Over many years, SRNL has implemented various required changes and programs—such as Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) upgrades and legacy risk reduction—through annual “plus ups” to the base ESS budget for SRNL. SRNL-IRP is proposing that a dedicated $6.0M per year “plus up” be specifically included in ESS planning budgets for the ten-year program. This will provide level funding needed for a cost-effective IRP while imposing minimal change on current site budget projections. This funding request is currently in the FY20 and outyear budget for approval later this year. DOE-SR and NNSA approval of this budget will be subject to annual review and approval. Funding Source TBD – DOE-SR and NNSA-SRFO have agreed to pursue an incremental $3.0M in annual funding to provide the balance of the ~$11M annual need to fully fund SRNL-IRP. One concept under consideration is to demonstrate effectiveness under the ESS option above and increase the ESS “plus up” from $6M to $9M on an annual basis. A final decision on the approach to this part of SRNL-IRP funding is pending decisions on future site


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missions and the ESS rate structures which may result. A decision on this funding source does not have an agreed upon target date but should be taken by early FY20 to ensure the SRNL-IRP is fully funded. However, the pace of decision making on this portion of SRNL-IRP funding should not be allowed to affect decisions on the two sources discussed above. SRNL-IRP Scope Approximately 30 distinct infrastructure scopes have been proposed for the SRNL-IRP. Examples of these scopes include radioactive exhaust filter housings and supply air, fire alarm systems, electrical substations and distribution equipment, elevators, roofs, etc. Attachment 3 shows the proposed scope titles sorted by funding category. Attachment 4 shows the scope titles with projected timing across the ten-year program. It is important to note that SRNL expects that emergent events (unanticipated equipment failures, etc.) will come into play and changes to scope inclusion may need to be made at various times. Actual costs for scopes may differ materially from the ROMs shown which would necessitate changes to priorities and or sequence of performance. It is also possible that some scopes will qualify as either IGPP or ESS, and thus the funding categories shown today are subject to change to improve efficiency or timing of projects. Finally, it is imperative that the SRNL Facility Engineering and Design Engineering functions be adequately staffed to support the SRNL-IRP. The projected SRNL ESS budget for FY20 currently includes three additional facility engineers to be dedicated to the SRNL-IRP. Those positions are essential to the effectiveness of the Program. 6.3 Replacement of Selected Non-Radiological Tritium Support Laboratories SRNL provides a large range of support functions to NNSA-Defense Programs Tritium missions. Non-radiological Tritium support laboratories are particularly at risk due to the aging structures in which the functions reside. In FY2017, SRNL and the Savannah River Tritium Enterprise (SRTE) completed an SRNL Infrastructure Risk Assessment. The assessment confirmed that tritium related SRNL infrastructure must be revitalized to ensure mission support in perpetuity. An example of the buildings of concern is shown to the right. Building 723-A (shown) is over 65 years old and is not a viable candidate for economic refurbishment. At the request of NNSA-SRFO and SRTE, SRNL is pursuing Concept Design and Class 3 estimates for multiple new replacement buildings which will nominally replace 723-A, 781-A, and 730-A. The vision is an NNSA funded set of buildings which eliminates the infrastructure threat posed to SRNL support of the tritium mission. The goal is to complete a design concept and Class 3 estimate by the end of FY2019. The Class 3 estimates will be used for entry into the NNSA FY2022 budget planning baseline. The facilities envisioned under this effort will be funded through NNSA and are not related to the SRNL-IRP investment plan discussed above.


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6.4 Enhanced Tritium Handling R&D systems SRNL and the NNSA Enterprise have insufficient radiological capability to develop and demonstrate new tritium processes and systems. Even though the current DSA for SRNL Technical Area (i.e. – A-Area) would allow it, current SRNL glovebox systems do not enable handling even small quantities of tritium. This state of nature inhibits the contribution SRNL can make to the Tritium enterprise. SRNL continues to work with SRTE and the NNSA-SRFO to provide the necessary tritium handling capability. Each of these capabilities are envisioned to be in H-Area. They are: • An interim capability (up to ~ 30-gram tritium system) is needed as soon as possible to fill a gap in current

SRNL tritium development and materials testing capabilities. This capability is being proposed for existing space in the Tritium Extraction Facility.

• In the long term, a ~ 100-gram tritium development laboratory is needed to fully support the SRTE Roadmap assumptions for Tritium extraction capability in 20 – 25 years. Establishing a ~100g laboratory capability is essential to achieving a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 7 or higher for the next generation Tritium production facility at SRS.

The enduring nature of all Tritium functions dictate that these capabilities be established. This Infrastructure Plan would be incomplete without mentioning the importance of these tritium handling capabilities to future SRNL missions. The funding of these radiological laboratory needs is not related to the SRNL-IRP discussed above. 7.0 CONCLUSION

After 65 years of service, SRNL stands at a crossroads. Aging buildings and critical support systems, along with major utilities and services must be revitalized or replaced. Approaches to many of these needs have been agreed upon by SRNL, DOE-SR, and NNSA-SRFO stakeholders. Projected funding needs must come to fruition to ensure that infrastructure investment is completed at the lowest practical cost and with best value to the government and taxpayers.

8.0 REFERENCES 1) Savannah River National Laboratory Infrastructure Plan (FY2010 to FY2020), SRNL-L0000-2009-00076),

July 29, 2009 2) Infrastructure Consolidation Roadmap and Transition Strategy, SRNS-MS-2015-00194, Rev. 0, September

29, 2015 3) Savannah River National Laboratory Ten Year Infrastructure Plan, SRNL-RP-2016-00664, Rev.0,

September 2016 4) Department of Energy, State of Facilities Annual Report, Office of Asset Management, September 2018

9.0 ATTACHMENTS Attachment 1 – SRNL Strategic Infrastructure Vision – February 2019 Attachment 2 – SRNL Strategic Facilities - Location Key Attachment 3 – SRNL- IRP – Proposed Scopes w/ Funding Source Attachment 4 – SRNL-IRP – Proposed Scopes w/ Ten Year Funding Profile


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Attachment 1. SRNL Strategic Infrastructure Vision – February 2019


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Attachment 2. SRNL Strategic Facilities - Location Key


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Attachment 3. SRNL- IRP – Proposed Scopes w/ Funding Source


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Attachment 4. SRNL-IRP – Proposed Scopes w/ Ten Year Funding Profile

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Savannah River National Laboratory Infrastructure Investment Plan · SRNL-MS-2019-00105 Revision 0 . 2019-05-28 Page . 4. of . 15. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . The purpose of this SRNL Infrastructure