ENERGYSOLUTIONS MAKES NEW SENIOR MANAGEMENT CHANGES

Monday, June 2, 2014

Mike Nartker
WC Monitor
1/10/2014

EnergySolutions is starting off the new year with a set of senior management changes. As part of a new “consolidation” of the company’s management team, Mark Morant and Alan Parker have been named to oversee Projects; and Products, Projects and Technology, according to EnergySolutions spokesman Mark Walker. “Mark Morant is President and Alan Parker is COO. As part of Alan’s responsibilities Alan has operational control of all projects globally across the U.S., Europe and Canada,” Walker said in a written response. Morant previously held the title of President of Products and Technology, while Parker previously held the position of President of Projects and Government Group. Also as part of the reorganization, Billy Morrison has been named President of EnergySolutions’ Government Group. In addition, Ken Robuck has been named co-President of the company’s Logistics, Processing and Disposal, along side John Christian. “The changes to our business units will improve our operational efficiency and strengthen the company for future growth,” Walker said.

EnergySolutions has also hired Zack Smith to serve as Vice President of Operations, reporting to Morrison. Smith comes to EnergySolutions from the Department of Energy, where he last served as Deputy Manager of the Savannah River Operations Office. In a Dec. 31 message to employees, Smith said he is set to retire from federal service in “early January 2014.” In a statement, Walker said, “We are excited about the addition of Zack Smith to our Senior Leadership team. His broad executive experience in nuclear operations, project startup and decommissioning as well as his ability to work with the various stakeholders including state regulators, federal leadership, unions etc will be a significant asset to us as we move forward on our strategic initiatives.”

Cleanup & Remediation

Army Corps marks major soil cleanup in Maywood, N.J.

ExchangeMonitor

Sunday, October 18, 2026

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced last week that after three decades of work, most radioactive soil cleanup at a Superfund site 12 miles west of New York City has been completed.

A ceremony was held Oct. 5 to mark major soil cleanup of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) site in Maywood, N.J. It was held by the Army Corps along with the New York Division and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to an Oct. 14 press release.

More work awaits in the future, according to the release. Water cleanup is underway and not all the contaminated soil is yet accessible.

The contamination grows out of decades of thorium processing at the Maywood site.

The Army Corps’ cleanup started in 1997 and involved among other things addressing thorium-232 contamination. Some of the contamination dated back nearly a century and the EPA added Maywood to its Superfund list in 1984.

Soil remediation was completed in August at a cost of about $919 million. More than 11,000 rail cars of soil and debris were shipped offsite as part of the cleanup, according to the release.

An on-site New Jersey lab processed and analyzed over 350,000 samples in connection with the soil cleanup, according to the release.

Vitrification & Grout

Hanford vit plant turns 250K gallons of liquid waste into glass

Wayne Barber

Thursday, October 15, 2026

The Department of Energy Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site in Richland, Wash., has now converted 250,000 gallons of less radioactive tank waste into solid glass form.

In September, over 39,000 gallons were vitrified into glass form at the WTP’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Facility, Bechtel National, which built the plant, said in a press release emailed to Exchange Monitor.

“Our team continues to optimize the vitrification process as we progress through the hot commissioning phase,” Brian Hartman, WTP project director and senior vice president with Bechtel, said in the release. “They processed over 110,000 gallons of waste in the last quarter. This achievement is a testament to the dedication and expertise that is advancing the Hanford cleanup mission.”

DOE is targeting solidification of 2 million gallons of low-activity waste annually at a DFLAW operational cost of $450 million per year. Bechtel, which built the WTP could turn over operation of DFLAW to Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure’s (H2C) in April 2027, the Tri-City Herald recently reported. .

The long-awaited multi-billion-dollar vitrification plant started solidifying waste into glass last October. DOE Hanford Field Office Manager Ray Geimer briefed the Hanford Advisory Board on the plant during August.

During vitrification, tank waste is blended “with glass-forming materials in the Low-Activity Waste Facility’s two 300-ton melters and heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit,” according to the press release. “The glass is then sealed in stainless steel containers, each of which is 4 feet wide and 7.5 feet tall and weighs approximately seven metric tons when filled.” Then the containers go to Hanford’s Integrated Disposal Facility for long-term disposal.

There is a long way to go in tank waste cleanup at Hanford. Decades of Cold War plutonium production left Hanford with about 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous waste held in underground tanks.

DOE is in the process of seeking approval from the Washington state Department of Ecology for solidifying some of the less-radioactive Hanford waste into a concrete-like grout. The grouted waste would be disposed of in Utah or Texas.

High-level waste solidification at Hanford is scheduled to start in the 2030s.

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