List of Figures
List of Tables
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Correction Sheet
Foreword
S.1.1 Background
S.1.2 Alternatives Analyzed in this Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
for Stockpile Stewardship and Management
S.1.3 National Environmental Policy Act Strategy for Stockpile Stewardship and Management
S.1.4 Related Recently Completed National Environmental Policy Act Actions
S.1.5 Other Department of Energy Ongoing National Environmental Policy Act Reviews
S.1.6 Public Participation
S.2.1 National Security Policy Considerations
S.2.2 Safety and Reliability of the United States Stockpile
S.2.3 Purpose and Need
S.2.4 Proposed Action and Alternatives
S.2.5 Nonproliferation
S.3.1 Development of
Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program Alternatives
S.3.2 Stockpile Stewardship
S.3.3 Underground Nuclear Testing
S.3.4 Stockpile Management
S.3.5 Alternatives Considered but Eliminated from Detailed Study and Related Issues
Figure S.1-1 Current Stockpile Stewardship and Management Sites
Figure S.1.1-1 Nuclear Weapons Design.
Figure S.1.6.1-1 Public Hearing Locations and Dates, 1996.
Figure S.2-1 Policy Perspective of the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program.
Figure S.2-2 Stockpile Perspective of the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program.
Figure S.3.1-1 Nuclear Weapons Complex Sites and Stockpile Stewardship and Management
Alternatives.
Table S.2.2-1 Summary of Distinct and Actionable Findings Since 1958
Table S.3.2-1 Stockpile Stewardship Enhanced Experimental Capability Alternatives
Table S.3.4-1 Stockpile Management Alternatives
| A/D | assembly/disassembly |
| AHF | Advanced Hydrotest Facility |
| ARS (X-1) | Advanced Radiation Source |
| BEEF | Big Explosive Experimental Facility |
| CEQ | Council on Environmental Quality |
| CFF | Contained Firing Facility |
| Complex | Nuclear Weapons Complex |
| CTBT | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
| DARHT | Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test |
| D&D | decontamination and decommissioning |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DP | DOE Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs |
| EIS | environmental impact statement |
| FXR | Flash X-Ray |
| HE | high explosives |
| HEPPF | High Explosive Pulsed Power Facility |
| HEU | highly enriched uranium |
| KCP | Kansas City Plant |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
| NIF | National Ignition Facility |
| NLVF | North Las Vegas Facility |
| NPR | Nuclear Posture Review |
| NPT | Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty |
| NTS | Nevada Test Site |
| NWSM | Nuclear Weapon Stockpile Memorandum |
| NWSP | Nuclear Weapon Stockpile Plan |
| ORR | Oak Ridge Reservation |
| Pantex | Pantex Plant |
| PDD | Presidential Decision Directive |
| PEIS | programmatic environmental impact statement |
| R&D | research and development |
| ROD | Record of Decision |
| SNL | Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico |
| SRS | Savannah River Site |
| START | Strategic Arms Reduction Talks |
| Y-12 | Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge Reservation |