January 26, 2016

Fluor Marks First Paducah Demolition of 2016

By ExchangeMonitor

Department of Energy contractor Fluor Paducah Deactivation Project already in 2016 has demolished the first of 12 inactive facilities to be razed soon at the former gaseous diffusion plant near Paducah, Ky., the DOE Office of Environmental Management Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office announced Tuesday.

The C-746-B warehouse Fluor Paducah just knocked down is one of a dozen facilities slated for demolition in the “the coming months,” DOE said. The 72,000-square-foot warehouse, which dates to the 1960s, stored construction and factory equipment. Hazardous metals waste and polychlorinated biphenyl, a now-illegal substance once used as an industrial coolant, were removed from the warehouse prior to demolition for shipment to an off-site disposal facility, DOE said.

“Fluor began mobilization on Nov. 2, 2015,” DOE PPPO spokesman Brad Mitzelfelt said. “They had the building demolished, downsized, and packaged by Dec. 9, 2015.”

Under a three-year, $420-million DOE task order awarded in 2014 after privately operated enrichment ceased at the plant, Fluor Paducah has already demolished 32 buildings, the agency said. The team, led by Fluor of Oshkosh, Wis., also includes Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. of the Netherlands and Los Alamos Technical Associates of Albuquerque, N.M.

Cleanup at Paducah will run through 2047, according to the White House’s 2016 budget request, over which span DOE must arrange for demolition of some 500 buildings on just over one square mile of land.

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