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CHAPTER II
MATERIALS MANAGEMENT PLANS
1. PURPOSE. To provide guidelines for the uniform preparation of the field
office Materials Management Plans which are used by the Office of
Nuclear Weapons Management for the preparation of the DOE-wide Materials
Management Plan and strategic management plans for specific nuclear
materials.
2. GENERAL. A key component of any management system is the planning
function. Planning in nuclear materials management is particularly
important because of the strategic value of the materials and the high
costs of producing, processing, storing or disposing of the materials.
Within DOE, the plans for managing nuclear materials are formalized
annually in the DOE Materials Management Plan and other strategic
management plans. The DOE Materials Management Plan provides an
analysis of the nuclear materials available and the projected
requirements over the 11-year planning period (beyond the current fiscal
year). It presents plans for the management of nuclear material
reserves and other inactive materials, and addresses issues requiring
management attention by identifying risks and options that could affect
nuclear materials management. The DOE Materials Management Plan is the
only document that combines user and supply project requirements and
identifies the total demand for nuclear materials. The DOE Materials
Management Plan also addresses other nuclear materials-related
considerations such as the need for new production capability, shipping,
storage, processing and management problems.
3. FIELD OFFICE MATERIALS MANAGEMENT PLAN.
a. Content and Responsibilities. Field offices shall prepare
Materials Management Plans containing the following information, as
applicable:
(1) Projections of nuclear materials inventories and transactions
for each "supply" project for which the field office is
responsible. The following data shall be provided for each
supply project for each of the 11 fiscal years of the
designated planning period:
(a) Beginning Inventory;
(b) Receipts (identify other party);
(c) Removals (identify other party); and
(d) Ending Inventory.
(2) Projections of nuclear material inventories and transactions
for user projects involving weapon production or nuclear
materials production activities. This requirement is
applicable to any field office having programmatic
responsibility for weapon production or nuclear materials
production. The following data shall be provided for each
project for each of the 11 fiscal years of the designated
planning period:
(a) Beginning Inventory;
(b) Receipts (identify other party);
(c) Removals (identify other party); and
(d) Ending Inventory.
(3) Specific site issues related to nuclear materials production,
processing, storing, and management activities. Typical
issues would be: need for nuclear materials storage
capability; impact of lack of acceptable shipping containers;
need to maintain DOE nuclear materials processing/conversion
capability to meet current or future needs or for long-term
safe storage; and ways to minimize nuclear material wastes.
(4) A list of nuclear materials management and related analytical
studies being performed or completed during the previous year
by the field office or its contractors. The title and a brief
abstract of each study should be included.
b. Schedule. The field office Materials Management Plan shall be
provided annually to the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management by
6-15. /3
c. Materials Reported and Units. Materials and units to be included
in the Materials Management Plans, unless otherwise authorized by
the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management, are as follows:
Component Reporting
Material Reported Unit
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(Nearest)
Enriched Uranium U-235 isotope kilogram
Plutonium Total Pu (Wt.% Pu-240) kilogram
Uranium-233 U-233 (PPM U-232) kilogram
Heavy Water (D2O) D2O equivalent kilogram
Plutonium-238 Pu-238 (% Pu-238) gram
Tritium Tritium gram
Normal Uranium Total U metric ton
Neptunium-237 Np-237 isotope kilogram
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/3 If the Office of Nuclear Weapons Management delays in providing
planning assumptions and the nuclear materials withdrawals and returns
summaries for use in the field office Materials Management Plan (see
paragraph 3e below), the field office Materials Management Plan may be
delayed an equivalent number of days.
d. Assumptions. Each Materials Management Plan should contain the
important assumptions used to develop projections for materials
supply or user project inventories and transactions.
e. Coordination. Annually, by 4-1, the Office of Nuclear Weapons
Management will provide field offices with planning assumptions and
applicable nuclear materials withdrawals and returns summaries
(developed from field office requirements forecasts (Chapter I))
for use in preparing the field office Materials Management Plan.
Because resultant processing schedules developed by one field
office may be needed by another field office for use in developing
its Materials Management Plan schedules, it is important to
coordinate such schedules between field offices at the earliest
possible date so that the Materials Management Plan preparation
date can be met by all organizations.
4. DOE MATERIALS MANAGEMENT PLAN. Annually, by 9-30, the Office of Nuclear
Weapons Management will prepare and issue the DOE Materials Management
Plan. It will be based on information from nuclear material
requirements forecasts (Chapter 1), field office Materials Management
Plans, the latest Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Plan approved by the
President, and information developed from nuclear material strategic
management plans. The DOE Materials Management Plan will be provided to
appropriate DOE organizations and other Government agencies as a
comprehensive analysis of nuclear materials supply-demand during the
next 11-year planning period together with important nuclear materials
management issues.