Jeremy L. Dillon
RW Monitor
2/6/2015
EnergySolutions was awarded a liquid waste treatment contract at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, the company announced this week. The contract, which includes a base period of two years with two one-year options, calls for the operation of eight wastewater treatment facilities and their supporting infrastructure systems. EnergySolutions declined to comment on the contract’s dollar worth, and Y-12 did not return calls for comment. “We are pleased to support Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS), the Management and Operations contractor at the NNSA Y-12 National Security Complex site,” EnergySolutions CEO David Lockwood said in a statement. “The scope of this project exemplifies EnergySolutions’ technology and expertise to safely manage another of the Department of Energy’s extensive liquid waste processing projects portfolio.”
According to the contract, EnergySolutions will be responsible for all necessary services, including: facility maintenance, tank inspection, and management of a tanker fleet for transport of waste waters. The work will take place at eight facilities within the site. They include: Big Springs Water Treatment System, for treatment of groundwater; Central Mercury Treatment System, designed to treat mercury-contaminated sump water; Central Pollution Control Facility, which provides batch treatment of radioactive and chemically-contaminated wastewater; East End Volatile Organic Compounds Plume Treatment System, designed to remove volatile organics from groundwater; Liquid Storage Facility, which treats contaminated groundwater; Groundwater Treatment Facility, which treats radiological, beryllium, and PCB contaminated groundwater; Uranium Chip Oxidation Facility (UCOF), designed to reduce pyrophoric uranium to a stable form of uranium oxide; and the West End Treatment Facility, which treats waste waters from various production facilities.
