The Department of Energy’s Office of Health, Safety and Security is moving up a planned visit to DOE’s Idaho site that is being conducted as part of a broader safety culture review across the DOE complex now underway, WC Monitor has learned. The schedule shift comes amid reports of technical issues and other concerns at Idaho’s Sodium-Bearing Waste Treatment Facility, for which a contractor-led Operational Readiness Review is now underway prior to the start of operation. The HSS team is now set to begin data collection activities at the Idaho site in May, instead of later this summer as previously planned. HSS is conducting the extent-of-condition review of the safety culture across DOE sites as part of the Department’s response to safety culture concerns identified at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant project. The SBWT Facility is one of several defense nuclear construction projects to be examined by HSS as part of the review.
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