Briefing, International Source�Removal Capabilities

National Transportation Stakeholders Forum

June 5, 2024

UNCLASSIFIED

STS Overview

Secured Transportation Services, LLC

is an Engineering and Transport Logistics company established in 2005.

Core Competencies:

• Handling and packaging of highly radioactive materials
• Engineering design of specialized tooling for handling highly radioactive materials
• Training and experience in radiological work
• Procedure and plan development
• Radiological control plans / risk mitigation
• Quality assurance of material handling and package loading
• “Type B” package licensing
• International regulatory approvals
• Transportation Logistics
• Transport security planning and implementation

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Team Capabilities

• DOE rad worker II trained
• DOT HAZMAT training
• Hot-cell experience
• Extensive RadCon experience – on staff HP technicians
• Mechanical, electronic, and electrical engineering
• Nuclear engineering support
• Computer modeling of shielding
• Project and program management
• Engineering procedural development
• Full 3D CAD modeling and design (autocad, inventor)
• Small to large scale fabrication
• Security analysis and vulnerability assessment

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Past Work - Background

• Extensive experience handling SNF and highly radioactive materials in both wet and dry transfer environments
• Developed radiation work packages for DOE approval
• Accustomed to quality assurance and DOE oversite requirements, radiation hazard mitigation steps, and safety hold points

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• SNF is handled with the same methods as high activity radioactive sources; shipments are commonly 100,000 Ci+
• Hazard mitigation protocols and safety are virtually identical to purely RAM sources.

Past Achievements & Experience

• DOE M3 Foreign Research Reactor Program – Prime Contractor
• Removal of highly radioactive materials from over 40 countries
• DOE/CNL High Level Material Return, 3-Year Shipping Campaign
• DOE Domestic Research Reactor Program
• Assembly/Disassembly of reactor components and fuel bundles
• Packaging and transport of U.S. domestic SNF and other radioactive materials
• Design, fabrication and operation of the BRR SNF Dry Transfer System
• BN-350 Operations (Kazakhstan)
• Hot cell packaging of BN-350 Fuel assemblies for transport
• DOE North Korea (DPRK) contractor
• Radiological Engineering support
• Packaging and disablement of reactor, fuel canning and stabilization and reprocessing facility disablement

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• ATF (Accident Tolerant Fuels) INL-ORNL
• MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor)
• MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) INL
• TPBAR (Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rods)

Of Note:

In December 2023, the US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and JAEA transported the remaining HEU from the JMTRC to the USA.

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Types of SNF Transports

Escort Railcars Have Evolved

Training Within the Scope of Transport

• STS supports Oak Ridge National Laboratory in conducting Transport Security Training, Workshops, and Tabletop Exercises within the NNSA Office’s of International Nuclear Security and Radiological Security in approximately 80 countries
• STS supported ORNL in standing up the TSUSG (Transportation Security UNIFIED Stakeholders Group)

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Training – Rail Force-on-Force(FoF) Exercise

• January 2022, STS supporting ORNL conducted a Rail FoF with agents of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) to include other SC agencies.
• The exercise utilized non-lethal ammunition, multiple scenarios during hours of daylight and darkness
• Exercise controllers provided observation and de-briefs

Supporting ORNL

• Integrated Security and Safety Management System (ISSMS)
• Rail Escort Operations and REV Systems Interface (Study and Research)
• Develop standards, procedures, and protocols: Compliance w/ NRC, DOT, DOE and FRA requirements (Study)
• ISSMS Safety Systems structural mounting devices (Fabrication)
• REV – Analysis and evaluation of security and surveillance systems

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Preparedness: �Shipment Protection and Response