EnergySolutions Overview. All you need in radioactive and hazardous waste management

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1 EnergySolutions Overview All you need in radioactive and hazardous waste management

2 Safety Is Our Core Value EnergySolutions instills in its employees a world-class safety culture EnergySolutions provides resources necessary to operate safely at all of our facilities and protect the general public in the packaging, transportation, and disposal of radioactive and hazardous materials EnergySolutions protects and preserves the environment by adhering to the highest standards of compliance & safety Systematic process for working safely 1. Human Performance Improvement 2. Traffic 3. Body Mechanics and Tools 4. Protective Equipment 5. Work Permits 6. Lifting Operations 7. Powered Systems 8. Confined Spaces 9. Excavation Work 10.Work at Height 11.Change Management 12.Simultaneous Ops or Co-Activities 2

3 Who is EnergySolutions? EnergySolutions is a proven nuclear services and radioactive materials management company operating in the nuclear fuel cycle FUEL AND POWER GENERATION 1. Uranium Mining & Fuel Fabrication 2. Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Power Generation MAINTENANCE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT 3. Maintenance Services & Plant Engineering 4. Onsite Waste Mgmt. Including Spent Fuel 5. Logistics Transportation, casks, etc. 6. Offsite Recycling & Processing 7. Decontamination & Decommissioning (D&D) 8. Disposal 3

4 Fuel-Cycle Maintenance & Waste Management Services Overview EnergySolutions is a leading provider of specialized, technology-based solutions addressing the lifecycle of commercial nuclear facilities Liquid Waste Processing/Fuel Pool Services Spent Fuel Services Logistics Decontamination & Decommissioning Processing and Disposal Processed more than 1 billion gallons of water since 1979 using patented, technologically advanced processing equipment Operation Liquid Waste Processing Systems at over 30 US Nuclear Power Reactors Recently Commissioned the 3-60B Cask for Irradiated Hardware Transport 20+ years of experience working with spent fuel pools in boiling water reactors and pressurized water reactors EnergySolutions Licensed Dry Fuel Cask System Completed largest Dry Fuel Storage Project in US History at Zion Operates Hittman Transport the largest Class 7 Trucking company in the US Owns and operates the largest radioactive material transport cask fleet in the US Largest fleet of Radioactive containers and railcars in the US Strong Northeast US waste transload network Broad range of experience developed over 20+ years for managing all aspects of D&D License Stewardship Contracts with Exelon/Zion and Dairyland/LaCrosse Recent Successes with Zion Dry Fuel Storage and Reactor Pressure Vessel Disposal Life-of-plant contracts with commercial power and utility customers International Metal Recycling Programs, including processing and return Extensive LLW and MLLW Processing integrated with disposal 4

5 Products & Services 5

6 Products and Services Fuel Pool Services Containers Liquid Processing Equipment Dewatering Systems 6

7 Logistics - Shipping Casks 86 Casks in fleet. Easy to use/proven experience. EnergySolutions owns 90% of casks currently in use. Logged more than 70 million safe driving miles without a loss or spill of radioactive materials. 2 new 8-120A & 2 new casks in new 8-120B casks added in 2014 (total of 8). 1 new 3-60B being added in New 8-120B during Fabrication Now in Service 7 7

8 Processing 8

9 US-Based Facilities Over 200 years of combined facility operations Clive, UT Disposal Site Bear Creek Operations, Oak Ridge, TN Worcester, MA Transload Dunphy, NV Transload North Bergen, NJ Transload Memphis Operations, Memphis, TN Erwin ResinSolutions Erwin, TN Parker, AZ Transload Heritage Center Industrial Park Oak Ridge, TN Transload Gallaher Operations Kingston, TN Barnwell Processing Facility Barnwell, SC Barnwell Disposal Barnwell, SC 9

10 Radioactive Materials & Waste Management Specialized services for a wide customer base including government agencies, commercial customers, and major engineering and construction companies Compaction/Volume reduction Incineration Spent ion-exchange processing High-activity filter processing Water, Oils, liquids and sludges Biological wastes Mixed wastes (both hazardous & Radioactive) Decontamination Bulk Survey for Release (BSFR) Metal melt for beneficial reuse Lead & Lead Encased Metals Solidification/Encapsulation Large Components Metals and Dry Active Waste (DAW) Disposal site commercial certification 10

11 Bear Creek Facility Oak Ridge, TN Two incinerators Compactor Metal melt furnace 5-year storage permit Two radioactive materials licenses Mixed waste treatment permit TN-OSHA VPP SITE since

12 BCO VPP Status Bear Creek Operations continues under TN Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) status the drive to continuously improve your world class safety and health program is most definitely alive and well. it is appropriate that Energy Solutions located at 1506 Bear Creek Road in Oak Ridge, TN be granted a 2-year extension on the sites current Volunteer STAR certification. I anticipate conducting the next Energy Solutions-Oak Ridge on-site evaluation in the first quarter of

13 Bear Creek Central Facility Layout (170,000 ft 2 or 15,800 m 2 under roof) RMS Admin Bld CVRF/Press Containers Incinerators P4/RCRA Metals and Commercial Certification LVRF Instrumentation Over 13,000 tons per annum of Processed Radioactive Material 13 13

14 Incineration Only 2 commercially available in U.S. Unit A constructed in 1989 Unit B constructed in 1995 Incineration of rad waste solids, liquids, oils, & sludges Throughput of 1,600 lbs (720 kg) per hour or 38,400 lbs (17,400 kg) per day Typical annual throughput 7M lbs (3.2M kg) per year Incineration 14

15 Ferrous Metal Recycling Metal Melt Metal melt furnace jouleheated metal induction furnace for recycling Constructed in 1991 Produces 10-ton (9.1 tonnes) shield blocks for high energy physics labs Typically tons ( tonnes) per melt campaign Capacity of ~6,000 tons (5,400 5,500 tonnes) per year Shield Blocks 15

16 Shield Blocks Beneficial Reuse Within the Nuclear Industry Shield blocks are used at high energy physics labs, accelerators and container clients for cost savings and environmental concerns Shield Blocks The following is a listing of where shield blocks have been sent to and all are facilities with radioactive materials licenses 1. DOE - Brookhaven National Laboratory 2. DOE - Fermi National Laboratory 3. DOE - Los Alamos National Laboratory 4. DOE - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) - DOE 5. DOE - UT-Battelle (operator of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory) 6. DOE - Bechtel Jacobs / X-10 Oak Ridge Nuclear Laboratory 7. DOE - Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility; Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) 8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9. Michigan State University 10. The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization known as KEK in JPARC 11. TRIUMF (Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics) Currently shield blocks are in higher demand than EnergySolutions can supply; demand is expected to continue 16 16

17 Compaction Largest compactor in U.S. constructed in 1985 Compacts drums and boxes Compaction force of 10M lbs Operating throughput of 80 cycles per day Typical VR 2:1 5:1 Compaction Compacted Pucks 17

18 Lead Recycling Lead recycling into various types of shield containers and devices Products for sale to the nuclear industry: DOT Type A Packages Process Shields for Liners Specialty Shields for Accelerators Transfer Bells LS3 Shield Security Barrier Overpack Drum Shields 18

19 Container Management BCO maintains an inventory of approximately 1,800 containers which include sealands, intermodals, tankers, water express, oil express, various shielded sealands, sealand overpacks and other specialty containers Inspections, repairs and painting conducted as necessary Containers are shipped to customers as demanded New gaskets, netting and tie downs provided as requested Excluding cask shipments over 2,100 outbound containers per year 19

20 Radioactive Materials Solutions (RMS) Advanced characterization, interim storage and staging for enhanced industry optimization of high activity wastes. Storage license for up to 5-years The waste streams include the following: Solidified and Reformed Process Residues Resin and water processing media Mechanical Filtration Sludge or sludge like waste forms DAW and Metals Sealed Sources and Standards 20

21 Gallaher Road Facility Bulk Waste Assay Program (BWAP) including Green is Clean (GIC) BWAP 21

22 BWAP also referred to as Bulk Survey for Release (BSFR) Review Rad Data Truck Monitor Monitor Dose Rate Bulk Assay Assay Facility Meets Limits? Yes No Send to Processing Sample & QC Load Truck & Monitor Clean Landfill Disposal Licensed Landfill Box Assay System 22

23 BWAP - Gardian Assay System At Customer Site At Gallaher Road Operations 23

24 Materials Processed As of Feb 2016 Compaction, 70,300 ton, 15.4% Erwin resins, 12,000 ton, 2.6% Materials Processed ~455,600 ton (413,328 tonne) BWAP/BSFR, 136,100 ton, 29.9% Incineration, 77,100 ton, 16.9% Metals, 92,800 ton, 20.4% Metal Melt, 67,300 ton, 14.8% 24

25 Instrumentation Service Product Lines: Calibration/Repair of Customer Owned Equipment Rental of EnergySolutions Provided Equipment Our site can be directly accessed at or via the company home page (via Customer Portal/Instrumentation at 25

26 Memphis Operations Memphis, TN Barge, Rail, Road Access Safeshop Customer Hotshop Rental Rad Equipment Storage Outage Equipment Service Center EnergySolutions Project Service Center Equipment Decontamination Container Decontamination Tank Segmentation Large Component Staging 26

27 Erwin ResinSolutions, LLC Thermal Organic Reduction (THOR) technology for processing of ion exchange resins THOR uses heat to reform resins into a compact, homogeneous, stable waste form called reformed residue THOR Organic Resin Reform Residue (RR) 27

28 Barnwell Processing Facility (BPF) and Barnwell LLRW Disposal Facility, SC Barnwell Processing Facility High Activity Filter Processing Resin Dewatering Sort/Segregate/Compact Decontamination Large Component Work Recycling Barnwell Disposal Facility Class A, B, and C wastes from the Atlantic Compact Including Large Components 28

29 EnergySolutions Commitment Maintaining safe, reliable and efficient waste management and dispositioning operations EnergySolutions understands that customers have options for waste with decontamination, recycling, storage and disposal. EnergySolutions remains committed to provide the nuclear industry with long-term full and complete solutions for radioactive materials management 29