Skip to main content

Nuclear Weapons: Design Reviews of DOE's Tritium Extraction Facility

RCED-98-75 Published: Mar 31, 1998. Publicly Released: Apr 30, 1998.
Jump To:
Skip to Highlights

Highlights

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) plans to build a Tritium Extraction Facility at its Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the reports of three different teams responsible for reviewing the project's conceptual design and related products, focusing on: (1) the major comments raised by the three reviews; and (2) the process used by DOE to respond to those comments.

Recommendations

Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Energy The Secretary of Energy should establish guidelines for formally responding to and reaching closure within a reasonable time frame on comments made during future independent design reviews of the Tritium Extraction Facility project.
Closed – Implemented
DOE has agreed to the recommendation as written.

Full Report

Office of Public Affairs

Topics

Atomic energy defense activitiesFacility constructionNuclear fuel reprocessingNuclear weapons plantsProjectionsNuclear weaponsConstructionEngineeringWeaponsArmed Services