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General Listing
Title of Listing:
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)
Category:
Federal/National - Agencies
Subcategory:
Other Government, All Listings
Date:
Document #:
Web Site:
http://www.dnfsb.gov/
Email:
mailbox@dnfsb.gov
Abstract:

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board reviews and evaluates the content and implementation of standards relating to the design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of defense nuclear facilities of the Dept. of Energy. The Board is responsible for independent, external oversight of all activities in DOE's nuclear weapons complex affecting nuclear health and safety. The Board's objective during decommissioning is identical to its objective during any other phase of a facility's life cycle: to ensure that DOE provides adequate protection of worker and public health and safety at defense nuclear facilities. Congress specifically tasked the Board with reviewing and evaluating the content and implementation of the standards relating to the design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of defense nuclear facilities of the Department of Energy (including all applicable Department of Energy orders, regulations, and requirements) at each Department of Energy defense nuclear facility. The Board shall recommend to the Secretary of Energy those specific measures that should be adopted to ensure that public health and safety are adequately protected.

          Thus, the Board's principal oversight function during the decommissioning phase of a facility is to ensure that appropriate nuclear safety rules, orders, and procedures are developed by DOE and then put in practice while the facility is being taken out of service.
Topics
Mixed/Radioactive Waste

Additional Topics/Tags/Keywords
Defense, Nuclear, Decommissioning, Health, Safety

Organization:
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Address:
625 Indiana Avenue NW
Suite 700
Phone:
DescriptionNumber
City:
Washington
1.
Primary (202) 208-6400
State/Province/Territory:
DC
2.
Zip/Postal Code:
20004-2901
3.
Country:
United States
4.
Fax:(202) 208-6518
Branch Locations: