Infrastructure Planning in an Uncertain Environment: The Nation's Former Nuclear Weapons Production Sites

Long-term infrastructure planning is an ongoing challenge to all public and private sector organizations and can be made even more difficult if one is responsible for a complex that has an uncertain future and erratic funding. The authors apply five long-term capital asset planning principles to a major infrastructure project under consideration at the U.S. Department of Energy's former nuclear weapons production site at Savannah River Site, raise critical issues and questions that need to be addressed as part of this process, and provide a framework for planning and managing a facilities and infrastructure program in an uncertain environment. The objective is to use this project as a means of identifying the many issues and questions that need to be addressed within the scope of each of the planning principles put forth.