LATA-Atkins Technical Services, a team including Atkins and Los Alamos Technical Associates, said Tuesday it won a potentially 7.5-year waste-management subcontract from Y-12 National Security Complex operator Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS).
The team also includes a small business, Strata-G, which has previously worked on liquid- and solid-waste management at the nation’s primary uranium processing site.
The new Waste Management Services subcontract features a 2.5-year base and five one-year options.
Consolidated Nuclear Security is a Bechtel National-led company that manages the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 site in Tennessee, along with its affiliate nuclear-weapon assembly and disassembly facility, the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. At Y-12, CNS machines existing highly enriched uranium into shapes usable in nuclear weapons and naval reactors.
LATA-Atkins Technical Services did not include the financial terms of its contract in a press release distributed Tuesday. Neither the company, its parent companies, nor CNS replied to requests for comment on Tuesday.
Atkins and Los Alamos Technical Associates are each players in the Department of Energy nuclear-waste business.
Atkins is a member of Washington River Protection Solutions, which manages the liquid-waste tank farm at the Hanford Site in Washington state: DOE’s shuttered, Cold War-era plutonium production site.
Atkins, owned by Canada’s SNC-Lavalin since 2017, also leads treatment of depleted uranium hexafluoride at DOE’s Portsmouth and Paducah sites: former uranium enrichment campuses in Piketon, Ohio, and Paducah, Ky., respectively.
Among other things, Los Alamos Technical Associates is currently a subcontractor to Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos: the DOE Environmental Management office’s cleanup contractor for Cold War nuclear-waste remediation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico.
