Projects
Experience / Completed Projects
The 1,050-acre Fernald site was a former uranium processing facility located near Cincinnati, Ohio. Fernald's operations supported Cold War era U.S. weapons program. Once weapons operations shut down, the DOE was tasked to focus on environmental compliance, radioactive and mixed waste management and site remediation.
As an integrated Fluor Fernald clean-up team member, EnergySolutions led the waste management and mixed waste projects, providing project management and environmental expertise for site-wide waste retrieval, sorting and segregation, packaging, shipping and transportation for radioactive and hazardous materials disposition. A majority of the low-level radioactive waste removed from Fernald was transported to and disposed of at our Clive facility.
EnergySolutions provided management and technical staff and supervised more than 300 dedicated professional and technical employees of the DOE at the site. As an integrated team member, EnergySolutions also provided services including processing design, logistics and transportation systems.
In January 2007, Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman officially recognized the successful completion and closure of the Fernald site.
EnergySolutions (through its acquired companies, BNG America and Duratek) was awarded multiple contracts to support the D&D of Consumers Energy's Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant in Charlevoix, Michigan, the longest-running nuclear reactor in the United States.
This monumental D&D project also involved the engineering, design, licensing and fabrication of spent fuel storage containers and handling equipment. Various engineering and consulting tasks supported spent fuel management and pool-to-pad operations. The removal, transportation, processing and final disposal of large reactor components, structure and system decontamination, building dismantlement and on-site waste management, shipment and processing of LLRW and MLLW were also provided for approximately 100 million pounds of waste using our LLRW disposal operations in Barnwell, South Carolina and Clive, Utah.
For the Big Rock Point project, we successfully developed, licensed and deployed the FuelSolutions™ cask system, the first system capable of accommodating highly-enriched, high-burnup pressurized water reactor and boiling water reactor fuel assemblies, as well as damaged fuel and fuel debris cans.
We also provided the single-source solution for the removal of Big Rock Point's large components, including the reactor vessel. Our services in this regard included the design, licensing, fabrication and implementation of the first fully NRC-compliant Type B package for shipping a reactor in one piece. The major component removal contract also provided for the provision of decontamination and building dismantlement services, including with respect to the turbine building, stack and various auxiliary buildings and structures.
Furthermore, we provided licensing and project management support for the implementation of a comprehensive on-site and off-site waste management program. Restoration of the site was completed in August 2006.
The Rocky Flats site was formerly a DOE Weapons Production Site encompassing nearly 4,000 acres approximately 16 miles northwest of downtown Denver. Historically, Rocky Flats made components for nuclear weapons using various radioactive and hazardous materials, including plutonium, uranium and beryllium. Nearly 40 years of nuclear weapons production left behind a legacy of contaminated facilities, soils and ground water before being designated by the EPA as a Superfund clean-up site.
DOE designated Kaiser-Hill Company, LLC to manage the clean-up and closure of the Rocky Flats site. EnergySolutions' rail-accessible Clive facility was used as the major disposition path for the transportation and disposal of low-level radioactive waste, mixed low-level waste and other contaminated materials from Rocky Flats.
The clean-up of Rocky Flats was declared complete by the DOE in October 2005 and has since been designated for use as a National Wildlife Refuge.
Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning
We have performed decontamination and decommissioning services at the following commercial nuclear power plants:
- Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Generating Station
- Humboldt Bay Power Plant Unit 3
- Shoreham Nuclear Power Station
- Rancho Seco Nuclear Station
- Trojan Nuclear Power Plant
- Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company
- Connecticut Yankee’s Haddam Neck Atomic Power Plant
We performed decontamination and decommissioning services at over 60 facilities worldwide, including major scopes of work at two nuclear power plants which have been completely decommissioned to NRC requirements.
Through its transportation and commercial waste processing operations, the Company offers its customers a comprehensive solution to their site decontamination and decommissioning challenges.
