Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

Nuclear fuel supplier Centrus Energy will report its 2016 earnings Tuesday afternoon and host its next quarterly earnings call with investors Wednesday. Centrus, the former U.S. Enrichment Corp., is decommissioning and decontaminating the industrial-scale uranium enrichment demonstration known as the American Centrifuge project in Piketon, Ohio. Centrus scheduled the call not long after Sens. Sherrod […]

Ohio’s U.S. Senate delegation this week formally invited newly minted Energy Secretary Rick Perry to tour the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, where the Energy Department is weighing big changes for a uranium cleanup that could take much longer than expected. “We would like to formally invite you to Piketon, Ohio, to see […]

Cleanup of the former uranium enrichment facilities at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, would slide into the 2030s under a new demolition plan DOE and site remediation contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth are discussing internally. According to the plan obtained by Weapons Complex Monitor, the agency and Fluor-BWXT would delay demolition of Portsmouth’s three […]

Cleanup of the former uranium enrichment facilities at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, would slide into the 2030s under a new demolition plan DOE and site remediation contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth are discussing internally. According to the plan obtained by Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, the agency and Fluor-BWXT would delay demolition of Portsmouth’s […]

Ohio’s U.S. Senate delegation this week formally invited newly minted Energy Secretary Rick Perry to tour the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, where the Energy Department is weighing big changes for a uranium cleanup that could take much longer than expected. “We would like to formally invite you to Piketon, Ohio, to see […]

By Dennis Carr Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth (FBP) prefers to operate DOE’s Portsmouth, Ohio, site with 100 percent appropriated funds from Congress. But that has not been the reality during the last six years when up to 75 percent, currently 30 percent, of funds to support the Ohio site’s 2,000 jobs carrying out the Energy Department’s D&D […]

The Energy Department could soon revise an Obama administration decision that bartering government-owned uranium to pay for nuclear cleanup at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, does not harm the domestic uranium market, a March 9 regulatory filing shows. “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is beginning the process to consider a new Secretarial Determination covering potential […]

Eight members of Ohio’s delegation to the House of Representatives on Monday urged new Energy Secretary Rick Perry  to visit the department’s uranium enrichment decommissioning project at Portsmouth. This is the latest of several invitations Perry has received from lawmakers to take an up close and personal view of DOE’s cleanup of its Cold War nuclear complex. […]

Eight members of Ohio’s delegation to the House of Representatives on Monday urged new Energy Secretary Rick Perry  to visit the department’s uranium enrichment decommissioning project at Portsmouth. This is the latest of several invitations Perry has received from lawmakers to take an up close and personal view of DOE’s cleanup of its Cold War nuclear complex. […]

The Energy Department could soon revise an Obama administration decision that bartering government-owned uranium to pay for nuclear cleanup at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, does not harm the domestic uranium market, a March 9 regulatory filing shows. “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is beginning the process to consider a new Secretarial Determination covering potential […]

PHOENIX — John “Rick” Dearholt, a former Jacobs Engineering hand who has worked on uranium enrichment complex demolition at the Oak Ridge Site, could soon become the Energy Department’s assistant secretary for environmental management. Reached by phone late Wednesday, Dearholt confirmed one of the biggest rumors circulating at the annual Waste Management Symposium here: that […]

Fluor’s chief operating officer is retiring at the end of this month, followed by the company’s chief financial officer before the year is over, the Texas-based Department of Energy contractor announced Wednesday. COO Peter Oosterveer has been with Fluor for 28 years in a number of positions, including as head of the company’s energy and chemicals […]

By Billy Spencer, Mayor, Piketon, Ohio. Scioto County Commissioner Mike Crabtree is misinformed with respect to the Village of Piketon’s long-held position on the cleanup and redevelopment plan for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) and the need for a third-party independent assessment. He should also know that the Village of Piketon is not alone […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the export of up to 144 kilograms of nuclear weapon-grade uranium to Belgium. The fuel elements, enriched to 93.2 percent, would be used to power Belgian Reactor No. 2 at the Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie-Centre d’Etude de l’Energie Nucléaire (SCK-CEN). The regulator, though, ruled that the license issued to Washington, […]

The Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services joint venture has started work on an Energy Department contract to process depleted uranium hexafluoride left over from Cold War uranium enrichment in Ohio and Kentucky. In late September, DOE awarded Mid-America Conversion Services a five-year, $318 million depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) treatment contract, unseating incumbent BWXT Conversion Services. Fluor […]

The Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services joint venture has started work on an Energy Department contract to process depleted uranium hexafluoride left over from Cold War uranium enrichment in Ohio and Kentucky. In late September, DOE awarded Mid-America Conversion Services a five-year, $318 million depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) treatment contract, unseating incumbent BWXT Conversion Services. Fluor […]

Centrus Energy Corp. plans to ship low-level waste from the decommissioned American Centrifuge uranium enrichment demonstration facility in Piketon, Ohio, to the Nevada National Security Site for disposal beginning in March, company filings with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission show. “Planning and budgeting for the waste shipments by Centrus, the waste disposal contractor and the transportation […]

Centrus Energy Corp. plans to ship low-level waste from the decommissioned American Centrifuge uranium enrichment demonstration facility in Piketon, Ohio, to the Nevada National Security Site for disposal beginning in March, company filings with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission show. “Planning and budgeting for the waste shipments by Centrus, the waste disposal contractor and the transportation […]

In a paperwork move that officially marks the end of an era, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has removed uranium enrichment from the list of activities permitted under Centrus Energy Corp.’s license for the American Centrifuge project in Piketon, Ohio. The order came down just before Christmas in a Dec. 23 letter to Stephen Toelle, Centrus’ […]

BWXT Conversion Services fared well and Restoration Services Inc. fared better, but Fluor Federal Services hit a skid and netted only half of its latest possible award fee, according to a raft of contract scorecards released recently by the Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. Restoration Services earned 96 percent of a possible $397,054 award fee […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still waiting for Centrus Energy to submit a cost and schedule estimate for decommissioning an industrial-scale uranium-enrichment demonstration plant in Piketon, Ohio. “We expect to submit the plan in the coming weeks,” Centrus spokesman Jeremy Derryberry said by email Monday. Centrus, the former United States Enrichment Corp., was to have submitted […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still waiting for Centrus Energy to submit a cost and schedule estimate for decommissioning an industrial-scale uranium-enrichment demonstration plant in Piketon, Ohio. “We expect to submit the plan in the coming weeks,” Centrus spokesman Jeremy Derryberry said by email Monday. Centrus, the former United States Enrichment Corp., was to have submitted […]

The Energy Department announced Thursday it has agreed to sell depleted uranium to a company that plans to build a $1 billion uranium enrichment facility near the agency’s Paducah Site in Kentucky. The company, GE-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), still bears the GE-Hitachi brand, despite that joint venture’s exit from the Global Laser Enrichment project earlier this […]

Centrus Energy Corp., of Bethesda, Md., is stretching out decommissioning and decontamination of the American Centrifuge Project site in Pike County, Ohio, by more than a year, cutting staff and slowing the pace of work there, the company’s chief executive said in a Thursday conference call. “The schedule of that work has changed after some […]

It will take more than a year longer than lately expected for Centrus Energy Corp., of Bethesda, Md., to decontaminate and decommission the industrial-scale uranium enrichment demonstration in Pike County, Ohio, the company wrote In a third-quarter earnings statement released after market close Wednesday. The American Centrifuge Project was shut down in October 2015 after […]

The parent company of BWXT Conversion Services, the Energy Department’s prime contractor for depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion in Ohio and Kentucky, said Tuesday it will not protest the award of a follow-on contract to a conglomerate led by competitor Atkins. “On October 11, BWXT received its debrief from the DOE following the DUF6 contract […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) should develop an early warning capability to address dropping quantities of unobligated low-enriched uranium (LEU), a trend that could jeopardize U.S. compliance with international nuclear cooperation agreements, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released Monday. The United States’ nuclear cooperation agreements with other countries feature peaceful use […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) should develop an early warning capability to address dropping quantities of unobligated low-enriched uranium (LEU), a trend that could jeopardize U.S. compliance with international nuclear cooperation agreements, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released Monday. The United States’ nuclear cooperation agreements with other countries feature peaceful use […]

BWX Technologies, parent of the outgoing incumbent on the Energy Department’s depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion contract, is considering whether to protest the award of a follow-on to an Atkins-led team that snatched the work away last week. The contract covers work at DOE’s former gaseous diffusion plants near Paducah, Ky., and Piketon, Ohio. BWXT […]

An Atkins-led joint venture beat out four competing bids for a five-year, $318 million Energy Department contract to operate depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at DOE’s former gaseous diffusion plants near Paducah, Ky., and Piketon, Ohio. Atkins partnered with Fluor Corp. and Westinghouse to form Mid-America Conversion Services. The companies announced their winning bid […]