# Presentation: 591271

## NNSA Mission & Safety

**NNSA Mission & Safety**
**Update**
**Frank B. Russo**
**NNSA Senior Advisor for **
**Environment, Safety and Health**
**DOE Facility Representatives Workshop**
**May 16, 2007**

## NNSA Organization

**NA-10**
**Defense **
**Programs**

**NA-20**
**Defense Nuclear **
**Nonproliferation**

**NA-30**
**Naval Reactors**

**NA-40**
**Emergency **
**Operations**

**NA-50**
**Infrastructure &**
**Environment**

**NA-60**
**Management &**
**Administration**

**NA-70**
**Defense Nuclear**
**Security**

**NA-1**
**William C. Ostendorff (Acting)**

_**NA-1 Staff**_
**Senior Advisor for ES&H **
**Defense Nuclear Safety **
**Defense Nuclear Security**
**Others**

**NA-2 Principal Deputy**
**William C. Ostendorff**

**Los **
**Alamos **
**Site Office**

**Livermore**
**Site**
**Office**

**Kansas **
**City **
**Site Office**

**Nevada **
**Site**
**Office**

**Pantex **
**Site**
**Office**

**Y-12 **
**Site**
**Office**

**Savannah**
**River**
**Site Office**

**NNSA**
**Service Center**

**Sandia**
**Site**
**Office**

**Notes:**
Shaded boxes are involved line managers involved in Fac Rep program.

All NNSA Fac Reps are part of NA-10. This presentation will highlight that organization.

Summary of NNSA Fac Reps:

## NA-10 Defense Programs Mission

**NA-10 Defense Programs Mission**

**Ensure the safety, reliability, and performance of nuclear weapons without underground nuclear testing.**
** ****Provide an infrastructure and the intellectual capability to maintain the nuclear weapons stockpile, including replacing limited life components and assuring an adequate supply of tritium. **
**Provide the ability to reconstitute underground nuclear testing and nuclear weapons production capabilities as required to meet future national security requirements.**

## Today’s nuclear stockpile provides flexibility to respond to changing geopolitical conditions

**W80**

**TLAM-N**

**W80**

**ACM**

**W87**

**PK**

**W80**

**ALCM**

**B61, W80, B83**

**B-2A**

**W76, W88**

**D5**

**SSBN**

**W62, W78**

**MM III**

**B61**

**F-16**

**B61, B83**

**F-15E**

**B-52**

**B61, W80, B83**

**Peacekeeper**

## Complex 2030 Transformation Goals

**Enable credible future deterrent with appropriate balance between stockpile and infrastructure.**
**Sustained long-term confidence in stockpile reliability.**
**Enhanced safety and security of the stockpile and infrastructure.**
**Responsive, fully capable, warhead manufacturing facilities. **
**Exercise key nuclear design and manufacture capabilities to ensure responsiveness.**
**Ensure capability to respond on appropriate timescales to geopolitical change, to technical problems in the stockpile, and to guard against technological surprise.**
**Enable smallest possible stockpile consistent with national security.**
**Reduced likelihood of future underground nuclear tests to certify warheads or address a safety or reliability concern.**
**Reduced long-term DOE and DoD ownership costs for nuclear forces. **

**Notes:**
See NA-1 testimony for background.

## Reliable Replacement Warhead Concepts and a Responsive Infrastructure are Enablers of Transformation

**Reliable Replacement Warhead Concepts and a Responsive Infrastructure are Enablers of Transformation**

**Future**

**Stockpile Based**
**To **
**Capability Based Deterrent**

**Notes:**
See NA-1 testimony for background. 

## What Does TransformationMean to NNSA Fac Reps?

- Programmatic changes coming:
- New facilities: HEUMF, UPF, CMRR
- Modifications to existing facilities: TA-55, CEF
- Facilities moving: TA-18 to Nevada CEF
- Accomplishing NNSA mission while transforming the complex - possible conflicts at the facility level.
- Fac Reps need to have at least a basic understanding of programmatic drivers and priority work.  Why? To understand the potential for schedule pressures to affect safety considerations.

**Notes:**
Programmatic Changes:
HEUMF: Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility at Y-12 –  primarily for the storage of HEU. Assigned Fac Rep is Jerry Lipsky
UPF: Uranium Processing Facility at Y-12 – still in design. A FR at SO, Steve Wellbaum, participated in design reviews and made significant contributions to design. 
CMRR: Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Project at LANL. 
TA-55: Improvements to the facility to support the Pit Manufacturing and Certification Campaign. (see attached one-page summary)
CEF: Critical Experiments Facility at Nevada – converting a portion of the Device Assembly Facility to perform the critical experiments once done at LANL TA-18

Accomplishing the NNSA mission (i.e., getting the work done) may conflict with changes to facilities and infrastructure that occur as part of transformation. For example, safety systems may be impacted during modifications. Also, maintenance budgets may decrease in facilities that are moving. 

Understanding programmatic importance of work always helps understand the external pressures that may exist to getting the work done. Application of Human Performance Improvement principle here: error-likely situations are predictable, manageable, and preventable.  

## How Do We Ensure Change Is Accomplished Safely?

- Establish Clear Expectations & Requirements
- Conduct Proper Oversight
- Communicate & Resolve Issues
-  Safety Conscious Work Environment
-   Issues Tracking
-   Notification Guidance

**Notes:**
Notes: 
Establish Clear Expectations & Requirements:
 Continue to effectively implement ISM, taking it to the next level by applying concepts like Human Performance Improvement; strive for operational excellence; 
 Contracts with clear expectations for Contractor Assurance Systems and safety requirements (i.e., List B’s)
 List B’s are maintained current and  updated regularly

Conduct Proper Oversight
 Oversight in accordance with DOE O 226.1
 Develop oversight plans, conduct assessments, shadow contractor, obtain data & information from contractor

Communicate & Resolve Issues
  Safety Conscious Work Environment - NNSA strongly supports and encourages the concept of safety conscious work environment:

The safety-conscious work environment is a work environment in which employees at all levels are able and willing to recognize and discuss conditions that could be adverse to safety. This, of course, has two aspects. The first is that the employees are willing and able to recognize such issues. The second is that they are willing and able to discuss such issues.

FRs are often in the position of discovery of conditions. 

Differing Professional Opinion. 

## Activation of EOC at ALERT level or higher
Potential Type A or Type B Accident
Security incident that involves: potential loss or compromise of classified or nuclear material; or a potentially dangerous material or package
Significant transportation incident or accident
Fires on-site or off-site that have the potential to affect NNSA operations, facilities, or off-site communities
Significant Near Miss or Management Concern you believe warrants attention to Headquarters
Cyber Security/PII that involves cyber attack, compromise of computer security or potential loss of personal identity information
Human Resource/Contract issues that potentially involve performance, labor relations, reduction-in-force, or disruption of services and deliverables

**Potential Type A or Type B**** Accident**
**Security incident**** that involves: potential loss or compromise of classified or nuclear material; or a potentially dangerous material or package**
**Significant transportation incident**** or accident**
**Fires**** on-site or off-site that have the potential to affect NNSA operations, facilities, or off-site communities**
**Significant Near Miss ****or Management Concern you believe warrants attention to Headquarters**
**Cyber Security/PII**** that involves cyber attack, compromise of computer security or potential loss of personal identity information**
**Human Resource/Contract**** issues that potentially involve performance, labor relations, reduction-in-force, or disruption of services and deliverables**

**Notification and Information Guidance – Topics**

## New Notification and Information Guidance - Contacts

## New Notification and Information Guidance Additional Info

- Who Should Notify HQ?
- Expectation: the Site Office Manager or Deputy, or if necessary, an Assistant Manager
- Timeframe for Notification?
- Expectation: reports in a “timely” manner
- _Note_: Site Office Managers were briefed on this guidance at the Field Management Council Meeting on May 10, 2007

## Questions?