DOE Awards Task Order to Northern New Mexico Small Business to Develop Documented Safety Analysis and Technical Safety Requirements Procedures

Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awarded a Task Order to Sigma Science Inc. (SSI), a Northern New Mexico Small Business, to develop the Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSR) procedures for Technical Area (TA) – 54 Area G at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The Task Order is for a period of two years and has an associated not-to-exceed value of just over $3.1 million.

DOE is responsible for performing safety analysis for nuclear facilities that meet the highest safety standards. Ensuring that all potential scenarios that could impact safe operations have been fully anticipated and mitigated through careful preparation and response planning is a key component of this process. Such a safety analysis is known as a Documented Safety Analysis (DSA). Within these DSAs are Technical Safety Requirements commonly referred to as TSRs, which set the limits, controls, and related actions that establish the specific parameters and actions for the safe operation of a nuclear facility.
LANL is approximately 36 square miles and subdivided into Technical Areas (TA) with sequential numbering. TA-54 is a located on the eastern edge of LANL on a finger mesa known as Mesita Del Buey. Area G, approximately 63 acres in size, is LANL’s low level radioactive waste disposal area and is located within TA-54. Area G contains shafts, pits and trenches is where low level waste has been disposed since the late 1950s. EM-LA is responsible for the large scale legacy environmental cleanup activities at the LANL, including those in TA-54 and Area G.

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