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Appendix F: High-Risk Items Within the Risk and Opportunity Analysis Report
Pages 145-149

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... of pit material in classified amounts in a licensed Type B package under a classified schedule to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
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... LANL also plans to deploy several muffle furnaces and direct metal oxidation furnaces for the oxide production needed to meet the dilute and dispose plan throughput.b Efficiencies will also be gained by the use of new containers at LANL for shipment of the plutonium oxide to the Savannah River Site (SRS)
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... . Los Alamos National Laboratory There are several scale-up risks for operations at LANL that are ranked as high risk to program schedule and cost.
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... That is, use of the 3013 instead of the SAVY container may slow down the operations, thus diminishing concerns about scale-up but extending program completion beyond the 2049-2056 time frame. • Lower than planned oxide production rate.
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... 2018. "ARIES Oxide Production Program Dilute and Dispose LCCE Overview, Material Management and Minimization Program," LA-UR- 18-28648, Independent Validation Review, August 28–30, 2018.
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  • roar document
  • savannah river
  • oxide production
  • plutonium disposition

  • dispose plan
  • security administration
  • program dilute
  • nuclear security
  • operations data

  • box figure
  • nuclear solutions
  • river nuclear
  • disposition program
  • government accountability

  • pilot plant
  • river site
  • waste tracking
  • dispose program
  • national nuclear

  • proposed dilute
  • isolation pilot
  • schedule risk
  • program plan
  • waste isolation

  • underlying operations
  • anomalous events
  • production rate
  • cost estimate
  • ceramic insulation


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