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Departmental Representative to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
2025
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- June 18, 2025, Board letter providing its review of WIPP shafts and escapeway hoists and establishing a 120-day reporting requirement for a briefing and report for: (1) the timeline and plan to reduce the risk from degraded escapeway hoists to facility workers, including any interim compensatory measures necessary to ensure the safety of ongoing operations, and (2) an evaluation of the adequacy of existing site aging infrastructure management processes based on recent experiences with degraded shafts and escapeway hoists.
- June 12, 2025, Board letter recognizing Mr. Tim Yeh of the Hanford Field Office upon being awarded the 2024 Safety System Oversight Engineer of the Year.
- June 12, 2025, Board letter recognizing Mr. Joseph Smith of the Savannah River Operations Office upon being awarded the 2024 Facility Representative of the Year.
- June 12, 2025, Board letter providing its review of decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) work planning and control at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Plutonium Facility for DOE's use and information.
- June 12, 2025, Board letter providing its review of the Safety Integrity Level for 242-A Evaporator at the Hanford Site and establishing a 90-day reporting requirement for a report and a briefing on 1) DOE's path forward for improving the reliability of the seismic dump system to ensure protection of the workers, and 2) DOE's approach for providing guidance and requirements for design of safety significant instrumentation and control systems for an existing facility when the design is not a major modification.
- May 28, 2025, Board letter closing Recommendation 2012-1, Savannah River Site Building 235-F Safety, and revising its reporting requirement which now requests DOE to provide three annual reports regarding the safety status and progress at Building 235-F.
- May 21, 2025, Board letter transmitting its report, Facility Worker Safety at the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility, for DOE/NNSA's use and information.
- May 20, 2025, Department extension letter to provide response to the Board's January 30, 2025, letter regarding B61 Hazard Analysis Report.
- May 8, 2025, Department extension letter for three deliverables (5.2.3, 5.3.2, and 5.5.2) of the Implementation Plan (IP) for Recommendation 2020-1, Nuclear Safety Requirements.
- May 6, 2025, Board letter providing its report summarizing the Board's observations from emergency exercises at DOE sites conducted over the past three years for DOE's information and use.
- May 5, 2025, Department letter and annual report regarding progress and status of safety improvements of the Savannah River Tritium Enterprise.
- March 28, 2025, Board letter providing its review of DOE Corporate Operating Experience Program Implementation for DOE's use for program improvement.
- March 25, 2025, Board letter providing its report on the efficacy of project reviews conducted by NNSA for DOE/NNSA use and information.
- March 20, 2025, Department letter transmitting the FY2024 Annual Nuclear Criticality Safety Program Metrics.
- March 17, 2025, Board letter providing its review of three nuclear criticality safety programs (at LANL, Y-12, and SRS) within the DOE complex.
- March 14, 2025, Department letter responding to the Board's August 13, 2024, letter regarding lithium-ion batteries use in DOE and specifically the use with the uninterruptible power supplies at NNSS Device Assembly Facility.
- January 31, 2025, Board letter providing its review of the draft DOE Order 414.1E, Quality Assurance, and offering insights to assist DOE in enhancing its quality assurance programs.
- January 30, 2025, Board letter providing its review of the B61 Hazard Analysis Report and establishing a 120-day reporting requirement for a report on (a) any actions taken or planned for these remaining open safety issues and observations and (b) implementation of these actions across the other appropriate weapon programs. In this letter, the Board also closed Recommendation 2019-1, Uncontrolled Hazard Scenarios and 10 CFR 830 Implementation at the Pantex Plant.
- January 2, 2025, Board letter providing a summary of its reviews of DOE safety directives and technical standards in FY 2024 and providing a listing of safety directives and technical standards the Board plans to review in FY 2025.
