DRC-2025-001898

June XX, 2025
Vern Rogers, Director of Regulatory Affairs
EnergySolutions, LLC
299 South Main Street, Suite 1700
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
RE:Radioactive Materials Licenses No. UT2300249;
Inspection Module 13, Liquid Management
Dear Mr. Rogers:
OnFebruary25, 2025, representatives of the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control (Division), opened Health Physics Inspection Module 13, Liquid Management. The inspection
was a verification of compliance with Utah Radiation Control Rules and the conditions of your Radioactive Materials Licenses as they relate to radiological safety at the Clive Facility.
The inspection consisted of reviewing EnergySolutions’operations associated with liquid waste and unanticipated liquid waste management.
There are no apparent violations that the Director will be pursuing in association with this inspection. However, the Director has some concerns in how EnergySolutionsverifies unanticipated
liquids within a shipment.
On March 3, 2025, Division staff observedEnergySolutions’management of aleaking waste shipment from the generator; CH2M HILL B&W West Valley, LLC(Shipment 9088-30-0214). Subsequently,
ComplianceAdvisory No. 2504003 (DRC-2025-001311) was issued by the Division Director (Director) on May 14, 2025. The Director received EnergySolutions’ response to Compliance AdvisoryNo.
2504003on June 2, 2025 (DRC-2025-001754)
The rational for managing unanticipated liquids on the Class A West Disposal Cell is provided in the response to Compliance Advisory No. 2504003 by stating that, “Freeliquids may enter
the embankment via precipitation, dust suppression water,compaction water…”. These examples of liquid additions to the Class A West Disposal Cell are planned or anticipated which differ
from unanticipated liquids within a waste shipment. Additionally, TheClass A West Disposal Cell is a permeable surface making it difficult to accurately assess the amount of liquid that
has left a waste container and that unanticipated liquids greater than 1% are properly being removed from the Cell.
Please take the time to review internal procedures associated with unanticipated free liquids management and make edits as necessary to address the Director’s concerns.
If you have any questions regarding this inspection, please contact Bryan Woolf at [phone].
Sincerely,
Lawrence Kellum, Low Level Radioactive Waste Section Manager
Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control
LTK/BMW/
c:EnergySolutions General Correspondence Email
LLRW General Correspondence Email
Taylor Palmer, Tooele County Health Department