LATA-Atkins Technical Services, a team including Atkins and Los Alamos Technical Associates, said this week 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, competitively awarded, small-business-set-aside Waste Management Services subcontract features a 2.5-year base and five one-year options. CNS declined to say how much the contract is potentially worth.
The pact covers solid and liquid waste cleanup of “waste generated from production processes and project activities at all facilities at the Y-12 National Security Complex” in Tennessee, a CNS spokesperson wrote Thursday in an email.
The LATA-Atkins deal also marks the first time CNS has combined its solid- and liquid-waste cleanup subcontracts. Navarro Research and Engineering is the incumbent on the current solid waste contract, while and Atkins Technical Services handles the liquid waste. Both the Navarro and Atkins subcontracts expire June 30, CNS said.
“In acquisition planning, we determined that it would be more efficient to combine the two contracts,” the CNS spokesperson said.
Atkins inherited the expiring liquid-waste contract after it acquired Energy Solutions in 2016.
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 affiliated nuclear-weapon assembly and disassembly facility, the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. At Y-12, CNS machines existing highly enriched uranium into forms usable in nuclear weapons.
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 radioactive 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.
