Insei - Project Summary

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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
Insei is a qualified and reputable supplier of nuclear facility software applications to Washington TRU Solutions (WTS), who is the prime contractor to the Department of Energy for managing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) located in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Insei maintains a WIPP Quality Assurance certification for our Quality Assurance Program and continues to perform all work in a best practices manner, which is IEEE compliant and meets or exceeds compliance with the WIPP prescribed NQA-2a 1990, Subpart 2.7 - Quality Assurance Requirements of Computer Software for Nuclear Facility Applications.

WTS selected Insei because of Insei's:

Best practices approach to software engineering with compliance to ASME NQA and IEEE
Successful Delivery of the Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) Waste Tracking System modules contracted to Insei
Nuclear waste management domain experience
Successful track record for delivering software systems that meet the client's requirements
Ability to assemble teams of IT practitioners who have the right skills
Unconditional commitment to develop software with full customer integration and input

WIPP TRAMPAC Evaluation Software (WTES)

Engineering of the WIPP Transuranic Waste Authorization Methods for Payload Control (TRAMPAC) Evaluation Software System. In March of 2004 WTS awarded to Insei the contract to reengineer the WIPP TRAMPAC Evaluation Software application (formerly e-TRAMPAC). This is a full lifecycle software engineering initiative that requires strict adherence to best practices software quality assurance and compliance to ASME NQA requirements. This software is used throughout the DOE Complex by the prime contractors of DOE sites and facilities for qualifying transuranic waste shipment configurations for assembly within the Transuranic Package Transporter-II (Shipping Cask) with the destination of the WIPP permanent waste storage facility.

Insei is currently scoping the effort to develop the electronic remote handled (RH) TRAMPAC Evaluation Software - with development scheduled to begin in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2006.

WTES Operations and Maintenance

With the successful on target scope, schedule, and budget delivery of the WWIS TRAMPAC Evaluation Software, Insei has maintained this application for Washington TRU Solutions since it was placed into production. Key Insei personnel and best practices are trusted by the WWIS team to keep this critical DOE Transuranic Waste Management application synchronized with the WWIS and functioning in a highly congruent manner with the systems and processes used by the DOE Laboratories processing and shipping waste to WIPP.

WWIS TRAMPAC Evaluation Software operation and maintenance (O&M) responsibilities include "technical support" for the application. Insei has the key personnel who maintain and troubleshoot all aspects of the WWIS and the TRAMPAC Evaluation Software, which includes intimate working knowledge of the WWIS and TRAMPAC guidance and directive documentation that includes the associated attachments and appendices (DOE/WIPP-02-3122, NRC Docket 71-9218, DOE/CBFO 97-2273), WIPP Permit (NM4890139088-TSDF), Safety Analysis Report (NRC Docket 71-9212) Quality Assurance, Radioactive Decay and Accumulation Code (ORNL/TM-12380), TRUPACT-III (NRC Docket 719305), TURPACT-II (TRUPACT-II SAR), and how these directives are used to accomplish transuranic shipments to WIPP by the various DOE Laboratories.

TRUCON Normalization

Insei has taken the TRUCON Normalization project through implementation. The goal achieved with the TRUCON Work Package associated with the WTES M&O phase is the normalized TRUCON reference data tables updated for the WTES. This improves the accuracy of confinement layer/resistance-based calculations.

The TRUCON Table Work Package activity afforded the opportunity to produce several items that will benefit the WWIS operations. During the work effort, Brad Day and Dick Lipinski brought to the attention of the team the lack of detail in the requirements surrounding the use of the filtration specified in the container record versus the filtration specified by the container TRUCON/Shipping category combination. The team worked through all relevant portions of the requirements, and the results of the effort included the requirement changes for the overpack and payload configuration evaluations, the change to the determination of the overpack layer resistance, the addition of detailed comments to some of the AltMeth requirements, and the proposal of a new set of requirement covering the details of the calculation of the packaging layer transport characteristics for the prediction factors portion of the MLEL sub-component of the container flammable gas/VOC concentration evaluation.

Automated Shipping Category and Forms Reporting

Insei has taken the Automated Shipping Category and Forms Reporting (ASC) application through the first two phases of the software lifecycle, requirements engineering and design. The scope of this project encompasses the software forms used to automate the shipping category form, as well as various reporting features for the TRUCON/Shipping Category data. The system is intended for integration into the WWIS software system. The software enables authorized users to create shipping categories, based on the parameters describing container layers of confinement, payload container type, and load type. The user can save the shipping category with either an Unapproved status (used for planning purposes) or an Approved status (shipping category is listed in the CH-TRUCON document). Only TRUCON/Shipping Category records with an Approved status are available for sites to utilize in shipments within the WWIS.

The ASC software also provides several useful report functions, including a report that displays the shipping category reference data in the form of the Shipping Category Worksheet of Section 2.2 of the CH-TRU Payload Appendices, a report that summarizes the total resistance (ZZZZ factor) calculation, and an ad-hoc report that provides the user with flexibility to query the existing, approved TRUCON/Shipping Category records.

Barcode Scanner and Magnesium Oxide Emplacement Tracking
(IEEE 802.11 Wireless Barcode Scanner Application)

The WIPP Emplacement Tracking Software consists of three distinct functional modules for accomplishing the recording and reporting needs during the emplacement process. The first two modules provide a user interface design for user on wireless barcode reading capable mobile computers. The user interface provides functionality for the entering, reviewing, and recording of location data for emplaced waste containers and emplaced MgO sacks. The third module provides reporting capabilities through the WWIS application to assist in the monitoring and declaration of MgO quantities in the WIPP repository.

The intimate familiarity with the Magnesium Oxide Emplacement process allows for the immediate use of Insei by WTS for updating the stand alone database and accomplishing the eventual integration of this data into the WWIS.

Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC)

Insei has taken the Waste Acceptance Criteria project through the first phase of the software lifecycle, which is the requirements engineering phase. The scope of this first phase encompassed the WWIS software modules used to evaluate the CH-TRU Waste Acceptance Criteria (CH-WAC) compliance of CH-TRU waste data associated with payload containers, payloads, and the WIPP repository. Payload containers in this context include direct-load waste containers, as well as overpack containers and their component inner containers.

Waste Analysis Plan (WAP)

Insei has taken the Waste Analysis Plan project through the first phase of the software lifecycle, which is the requirements engineering phase. The scope of this project encompasses the software modules used to evaluate the WAP compliance of CH-TRU waste data associated with waste streams, containers, shipments, and the WIPP repository. Containers in this context include direct-load waste containers, as well as overpack containers and their component inner containers.