Independent Assessment of the Fire Protection Program at the Idaho National Laboratory Transient Reactor Test Facility
Office of Enterprise Assessments
August 8, 2023
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August 2023,
Independent Assessment of the Fire Protection Program at the Idaho National Laboratory Transient Reactor Test Facility
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) conducted an independent assessment of the fire protection program (FPP) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) from March to April 2023. INL is managed and operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) for the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy and is overseen by the DOE Idaho Operations Office (DOE-ID). TREAT is designed to study the response of material exposure to high neutron fluxes and extreme transient events, such as power excursions. This assessment included the evaluation of overall FPP implementation as well as FPP documentation, design documentation, and inspection, testing, and maintenance (ITM) performance.