Sandia Field Office Analytical Services Program Workshop

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Sandia Field OfficeAnalytical Services Program
Workshop
Geoff Beausoleil, SFO
September 16, 2014
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Sandias Sites
Livermore, California
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Pantex Plant,Amarillo, Texas
Kauai, Hawaii
Tonopah,Nevada
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,Carlsbad, New Mexico
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Sandias Discipline-Based Research Foundations
Computing science
Materials
High energy density physics
Engineering sciences
Bioscience
Microelectronics
Geoscience
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Sandias Capabilities

• High-reliability engineering
• Sensors and sensing systems
• Cyber technology
• Reverse engineering
• Micro- nano- electronics and systems
• Modeling simulation and experiment
• Natural and engineered materials
• Pathfinders
• Safety, risk, and vulnerability analysis

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Sandias Operations

• 45 major test facilities
• 2,718 labs spanning over 39 of our square
  footage
• 1,958 light labs
• Wide-range of hazards including
• Radioactive/nuclear
• Explosives/ammo
• Chemicals
• And of course slips, trips and falls

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Major Facilities and Tools

• Inertial Test Lab
• Abnormal Thermal Environment Lab
• Climatic Lab
• Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR)
• Blast Tube
• Inertial Test Lab
• Centrifuge Complex
• Weapons Evaluation Test
• Cross-Flow Test Fire Facility
• Aerial Cable Facility
• Drop Tower Facility
• Light Initiated High Explosive Facility
• Electromagnetics Test Facility (TEMPEST)
• Climatic Lab (TEMPEST)
• Environmental Lab (TEMPEST)

• Explosive Machining Facility (TEMPEST)
• FARM (Facility for Antenna and RCS Measurements)
• Thermal Test Complex Burn Facility
• Tonopah Test Range Flight
• Tonopah Test Range Ground Penetration
• Weapons Evaluation Test
• Flight Test Assembly
• Gamma Irradiation Facility
• Mobile Gun Complex
• Shock Thermodynamics Applied Research Lab
• Modal/Vibe/Shock Vibration Lab
• Water Impact Facility
• Normal Thermal Environment Lab

• Aerospace laboratories (High Altitude Chamber,
  Ion Beam Lab, Lightning Effects Facility, Mass
  Properties Lab, Modal and Structural Dynamics,
  Structural Mechanics Lab )
• Radiant Heat Test Cell
• Radiation Metrology
• Non Destructive Evaluation Lab
• RF and Optics Microsystem
• Z Pulsed Power Facility
• Hermes-III Gamma-Ray Facility
• Saturn
• SPHINX
• Solid Mechanics Lab
• Mechanics of Materials
• Terminal Ballistic Facility
• Centrifuge Complex Vibration Lab

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Types of Hazards

• Mechanical
• Electrical
• Chemicals
• Fire Protection/Thermal Hazards
• Pressure/Vacuum
• Radioactive/Fissile/Nuclear
• Biological
• Ozone Depletion
• Drinking Water
• Beryllium

• Noise
• Lasers/Non-Ionizing Radiation
• X-Ray Devices
• Explosives Ammunition
• Confined Space
• Working at Heights
• Heavy Object Ergonomics Lifting

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SNL Need for Analytical Services

• Similar to other DOE sites, there is a need to
  have access to analytical services
• Within the DOE family, it makes sense to leverage
  resources (and contracts)
• Use of external laboratories provides an
  independent analysis, enhancing credibility with
  regulators and the public
• For smaller sites such as SNL, outsourcing
  analyses can be more cost-effective than
  developing and maintaining internal analytical
  capabilities

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SNL Analytical Services

• SNL has four contractual agreements for off-site
  commercial analytical laboratory environmental
  data services (560K total). Each affects
  multiple DOE Users
• GEL Laboratories, Charleston SC
• Test America Laboratories, Richland WA
• Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio TX
• Hall Analysis Laboratory, Albuquerque NM

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Importance of Knowing Analytical Data is
Defensible

• DOE must have confidence and understanding of
  data pedigree
• Having defensible environmental data to support
  our field decisions is imperative to our
  operational activities, and maintaining public
  trust and credibility.
• Really dont want to find out our data is suspect
  from our stakeholders or the media
• DOECAP efforts helps leverage resources across
  the DOE to perform reviews and assessments

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Example of DOECAP Help

• Several years ago the American Radiation Services
  (ARS) Albuquerque laboratory which had gone
  bankrupt
• ARS supported several DOE sites (Portsmouth, SNL,
  LANL, and INL)
• They had several thousand environmental
  samples/waste that needed to be preserved
• DOECAP provided excellent assistance to secure
  samples and fostering field managers risk
  reductions

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Example of DOECAP Help Benefits to Sandia of
ICPT BOA

• Reduction in procurement times
• Guaranteed affordable pricing for analytical
  services
• Securing contracts with high-performing
  laboratories
• High-quality data that meets regulatory
  requirements

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Example of Site-Specific Benefit Sandia
Groundwater Program

• DOECAP audits laboratories at the system level,
  enhancing credibility
• This allows Sandia to focus oversight efforts on
  unique, programmatic, and site-specific data
  quality and regulatory issues (chasing the
  ghosts)
• Complex combination subsurface environment and
  wide range of constituents
• High public visibility with respect to quality of
  data
• Data and documentation must be legally and
  technically defensible, especially when results
  are at or near levels of detection
• Example Spurious toluene detections in wells
  across Sandia were found not to represent
  groundwater contamination after an extensive
  review of quality control data