Nuclear Services

ATL provides extensive nuclear services for multiple U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) offices and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as well as other government and commercial customers. The following category listings illustrate our areas of expertise.

Engineering and Licensing

• Structure/Civil Mechanical, Electrical, and Systems engineering
• Seismic, fatigue, and aging anlayses
• Licensing support and environmental and safety reviews of fuel cycle facilities
• Safety and environmental reviews for NRC or Agreement State re-licensing
• License renewal support of nuclear generation plant safety programs concerning structural, mechanical, electrical, fire, metallurgical, and other integrity in support of a license renewal application and aging management
• Evaluation of exemptions from licensing in 10 CFR Parts 30 and 40 for products and materials and to evaluate the potential exemption of five categories of devices currently used under general license
• Environmental and safety reviews for new reactors

Emergency Preparedness – Terrorism

• Nuclear accident emergency preparedness
• Technical review of emergency management hazards assessments and emergency event classification criteria
• Regulatory analysis of Federal rules and directives
• Assessments/analyses of nuclear facility operations, hazardous materials accidents, electric power distribution, radiological dose projections, and overall emergency management
• Radiological waste and nuclear weapons transportation exercises
• Inter-agency exercise for nuclear weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
• Technical, management, administrative and outreach support to the Subcommittee on Consequence Assessment and Protective Actions (SCAPA) program
• U.S. EPA Risk Assessment Methodologies and EPA Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
• Temporary Emergency Exposure Levels (TEELS) and Health Codes development and improvement
• Regulatory Guides applicable to Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards facilities
• Radiological engineering and site characterization
• Operational, quality assurance, and health & safety plans and procedures

Nuclear Criticality

• Development, issuance, and maintenance of nuclear safety standards
• Corrective action plans and implementation
• Criticality safety assessment and analysis
• Probabilistic risk assessments and risk management plans
• Technical safety requirements
• Authorization basis documentation
• Mentoring programs, training activities, seminars, and meetings
• Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations (ISFSIs)
• Transportation and spent fuel storage cask design and manufacturing evaluations
• Waste treatment and solidification plant sites listed under the SDMP
• Regulatory Guides, NUREG documents, Standard Review Plans, and nuclear safety analysis documents
• Laboratory analytical and hot cell capabilities

Safety and Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment and Management

• Life-cycle risk management program for waste management functions
• Semi-quantitative risk assessment and system analysis methodology
• Guidance for developing Risk Data Sheets (RDSs)
• Compilation of risk information, established integrated program priorities, and enhanced the prioritization process by the use of a Qualitative Evaluation Matrix
• Evaluation of technical requirements and materials related to environmental restoration, nuclear material facility management, and waste and spent nuclear fuel management
• Health physics and nuclear engineering for DOE leasing cesium capsules to commercial entities
• Evaluation of technical basis for compensation claims
• Evaluation and development of safety analysis, strategies, and plans for cesium/strontium capsules and their associated facilities and the potential for process, transfer, storage, reuse and/or recycle

Exposure Assessment

• Estimation of radiological dose, from radionuclide emissions to air, to maximally exposed individual within the site boundary (using CAP88-PC computer model)
• Environmental radiological dose reconstruction project, involving the risk analysis computer packages Crystal Ball 2000 and @RISK and client software

Safety Basis and Documented Safety Analysis

Radioactive Waste Management and Operational Safety

• Cost recovery for the deactivation of actinide-beryllium neutron sources from commercial licensees
• Off-site source preparation, batching, and shipping consolidation procedures
• Regulatory and cost-benefit analysis
• Risk evaluation system development and risk analysis
• Public outreach and elicitation
• Nuclear byproduct systems and related safety analysis
• Hazard analysis or safety documentation
• Reactor testing, fuel movement monitoring, and cold start up testing
• Planning, coordination, and execution of emergency recoveries of radioactive sources

Performance Assessments

• Limited Scope USQ Process Review Assessment Plan
• Collection and analysis of operating experience data, events monitoring and analysis, dissemination of lessons learned information
• Analysis tools and techniques for evaluating operating experience data
• Operational Readiness Reviews (ORRs) and bringing to life construction projects

Environmental Waste Management

• Environmental impact statements (EIS) and environmental assessments
• Evaluation of spent nuclear fuel transportation and storage casks
• Regulatory Guides and NUREGs associated with 10 CFR Part 71 and 10 CFR Part 72
• Formulation and implementation of policies and plans for management of the treatment, storage, transportation, and disposal of radioactive, hazardous mixed, and sanitary wastes
• Laboratory analysis for waste disposal, waste minimization, and for the protection of workers, the public, and the environment
• Preliminary radiological standards development for OSHA
• Analyses of occupational exposure data to ionizing radiation
• Site characterization and remediation
• Decontamination and decommissioning assessments
• NAQ-1 training, auditing, and compliance

Safeguards and Security

• Support to Safeguards and Security functional area initiatives, including Protection Program Operations, Information Security, Personal Security, Nuclear Materials Control & Accountability, Emergency Management, and Cyber Security
• Maintaining information in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Safeguards and Security Information Management System
• Corrective action management and resolution of findings
• Safeguards and Security surveys/inspections and assessments, including assessing compliance with client regulations and requirements
• Program management support including budget and financial management
  Vulnerability assessments
• Strategic and tactical planning activities
• Developing and assessing safeguards directives, plans, processes, and procedures
• Developing, conducting, and participating in all phases of performance testing activities Assisting in the development of cyber security policy and implementing programs
• Analysis and resolution of security incidents
• Conducting administrative security functions that include:
• Maintaining and managing classified document inventory and control systems

Technology Deployment

• Establishment of performance baselines for unit costs, life-cycle costs, schedule, technical performance, and risk
• Improvement of selected remediation technologies and facilitated process definitive testing (PDT) to examine the potential for performance enhancements