Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
The Paducah site in western Kentucky enriched uranium by gaseous diffusion and is now under decontamination and decommissioning. Coverage tracks facility deactivation and demolition, depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion, groundwater remediation, waste disposal, and cleanup contracts.
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Contracts & Procurement
Fluor-BWXT, Mid-America teams could stay on the job until September 2023
Following the solicitation of new long-term contracts for its Portsmouth and Paducah sites, the Department of Energy plans to extend the incumbents at both sites for up to six months, according to procurement notes published recently. In a procurement notice May 27, the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management announced its intent to extend decontamination and […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Fluor-BWXT, Mid-America teams could stay on the job until September 2023
Following the solicitation of new long-term contracts for its Portsmouth and Paducah sites, the Department of Energy plans to extend the incumbents at both sites for up to six months, according to procurement notes published recently. In a procurement notice Friday, the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management announced its intent to extend decontamination and decommissioning […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Important deadlines loom for mercury, Portsmouth, Paducah RFPs
Bids for Long-term Management and Storage of elemental mercury are due to the Department of Energy by 4 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday, while questions on the last week’s solicitations for new contracts at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky are due a week later, the agency said. Since DOE’s Office […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Swift & Staley services contract at Paducah must end next year, government tells court
The Court of Federal Claims should let the Department of Energy sunset Swift & Staley’s existing contract for landlord services at the Paducah Site in Kentucky by May 31, 2023, the federal government repeated this week. Swift & Staley is the incumbent on the contract and had won a follow-on award to continue providing these […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE releases final solicitations for next Portsmouth, Paducah contracts
The Department of Energy on Wednesday opened bidding for a pair of new long-term contracts to manage Cold War uranium-enrichment cleanup in Ohio and Kentucky, one of which includes some work for active nuclear weapons programs. The agency’s Office of Environmental Management, the nuclear-weapons cleanup steward, posted final solicitations online. The scheduled last day for […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Paducah contract with DUF4 for NNSA out for bids
The Department of Energy this week opened bidding for a pair of new long-term contracts to manage Cold War uranium-enrichment cleanup in Ohio and Kentucky, one of which includes some work for active nuclear weapons programs. The agency’s Office of Environmental Management, the nuclear-weapons cleanup steward, posted final solicitations online. The scheduled last day for […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE releases final solicitations for next Portsmouth, Paducah contracts
The Department of Energy on Wednesday opened bidding for a pair of new long-term contracts to manage Cold War uranium-enrichment cleanup in Ohio and Kentucky, one of which includes some work for active nuclear weapons programs. The agency’s Office of Environmental Management, the nuclear-weapons cleanup steward, posted final solicitations online. The scheduled last day for […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Swift & Staley opposes feds’ effort to set time limit on injunction protecting its Paducah biz
Even after a judge stayed his earlier ruling finding incumbent Swift & Staley is too big for the small business set-aside contract awarded by the Department of Energy in late 2020, the parties are still arguing over how long the company should remain the landlord at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. Swift & Staley, the incumbent landlord […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Swift & Staley opposes feds’ effort to set time limit on injunction protecting its Paducah biz
Even after a judge stayed his earlier ruling finding incumbent Swift & Staley is too big for the small business set-aside contract awarded by the Department of Energy in late 2020, the parties are still arguing over how long the company should remain the landlord at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. Swift & Staley, the […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Judge puts brakes on own order, Swift & Staley remains Paducah landlord on appeal
Citing high stakes for Swift & Staley, a Court of Federal Claims judge this week stayed his own order finding the company ineligible for a follow-on landlord services at the Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky. In the five-page order made public Wednesday, Court of Federal Claims Judge Thompson Dietz said Swift & Staley […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Barring appeals court decision, Swift & Staley could remain Paducah landlord into 2023
Swift & Staley could stay on as Infrastructure Support Services provider at the Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky through March 2023 while the company fights a court ruling that it should not have received a small-business set-aside follow-on contract for the work. The existing landlord would remain in place at Paducah through March […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Four Rivers to build emergency ops center at Paducah
The Department of Energy has signed off on a $5.4-million task order for Four River Nuclear Partnership to build an emergency operations center at the Paducah Site in Kentucky, according to a procurement notice posted online Friday April 22. Construction is scheduled to start this year, according to the DOE Office of Environmental Management budget […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Swift & Staley too big for new Paducah biz due to ‘negative control’ of Portsmouth contract, judge finds
In a just-unsealed public version of a decision last month, a Federal Claims Court judge agrees Swift & Staley is too big to qualify for a new Department of Energy Infrastructure Support Services contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky because of its “negative control” of a joint venture doing similar work at the time […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Four Rivers to build emergency ops center at Paducah
The Department of Energy has signed off on a $5.4-million task order for Four River Nuclear Partnership to build an emergency operations center at the Paducah Site in Kentucky, according to a procurement notice posted online Friday April 22. Construction is scheduled to start this year, according to the DOE Office of Environmental Management budget […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Major new solicitations for Portsmouth, Paducah should not reduce jobs, DOE says
Changes in the scope of work for two new Department of Energy contracts planned at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and Paducah Site in Kentucky, should not cause job cuts or employee transfers between the two former gaseous diffusion plants, the agency said last week in a procurement notice. As DOE has said previously, some […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Major new solicitations for Portsmouth, Paducah should not reduce jobs, DOE says
Changes in the scope of work for two new Department of Energy contracts planned at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and Paducah Site in Kentucky, should not cause job cuts or employee transfers between the two former gaseous diffusion plants, the agency said Thursday in a procurement notice. As DOE has said previously, some work […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE won’t yank Swift & Staley award before July amid debate about company’s small-biz eligibility
The Department of Energy will not revoke until August a disputed landlord services contract that could keep Swift & Staley at the Paducah Site in 2027 — but the agency also will not slow down plans to recompete or reward the work, which the incumbent is fighting in court to keep. That was the news […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE won’t yank Swift & Staley award before July amid debate about company’s small-biz eligibility
The Department of Energy will not revoke until August a disputed landlord services contract that could keep Swift & Staley at the Paducah Site in 2027 — but the agency also will not slow down plans to recompete or reward the work, which the incumbent is fighting in court to keep. That was the news […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Swift & Staley seeks to stave off quick DOE contract termination for Paducah services
The Department of Energy intends to terminate a $160-million Paducah Infrastructure Support Services Contract awarded to incumbent Swift & Staley in December 2020 and either re-compete or re-award the deal, the company said in a court filing Monday. Swift & Staley disclosed the impending contract cancellation in a filing with the U.S. Court for the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Federal judge rules against Swift & Staley in Paducah site services contract
In a sealed opinion issued last week, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thompson Dietz ruled in favor of Virginia-based Akima-Intra Data, which had challenged whether Swift & Staley was suitably sized to win a $160-million Department of Energy landlord services contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. Swift & Staley on Monday appealed the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Swift & Staley receives another 4 months at Paducah under DOE extension
The Department of Energy is apparently not counting upon a speedy resolution of litigation surrounding the landlord services contract for the Paducah Site, as a spokesperson confirmed Thursday the incumbent is receiving a four-month extension. Kentucky-based Swift & Staley is now scheduled to stay on the job through July 31, a spokesperson for the DOE […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Portsmouth, Paducah final RFPs possible in May
PHOENIX — The final solicitations could be out in May for multi-billion-dollar contracts at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky, an agency procurement manager said here Tuesday. Aaron Deckard, procurement director for DOE’s Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center, offered the assessment at the agency’s spring quarterly […]
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Decommissioning
Portsmouth X-326 coming down as DUF6 cranks up
PHOENIX — Demolition of the X-326 Process Building could be completed this July at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio and around the time, depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion operations might resume at the former gaseous diffusion plant, speakers told the attendees of Waste Management Symposia here Wednesday. Remediation contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth aims to […]
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Decommissioning
Portsmouth X-326 coming down as DUF6 cranks up
PHOENIX — Demolition of the X-326 Process Building could be completed this July at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio and around the time, depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion operations might resume at the former gaseous diffusion plant, speakers told the attendees of Waste Management Symposia here Wednesday. Remediation contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth aims to […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Portsmouth, Paducah final RFPs possible in May; No promises about future in-person site tours
PHOENIX — The final solicitations could be out in May for multi-billion-dollar contracts at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky, an agency procurement manager said here Tuesday. Aaron Deckard, procurement director for DOE’s Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center, offered the assessment at the agency’s spring quarterly […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Four Rivers labeled ‘satisfactory’ overall in fee scorecard
Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, the Department of Energy contractor in charge of remediation at the Paducah Site in Kentucky, was deemed mostly “satisfactory” during fiscal 2021 and earned roughly half of its potential “adjective” fee, according to a recently-released scorecard from the agency. The joint venture made up of Jacobs, Fluor and BWX Technologies, earned […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
DUF6 work resuming at Paducah Site, Portsmouth to follow
After being offline for nearly two years due to a combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and plant upgrades, the Department of Energy says conversion of depleted uranium hexafluoride to a more stable form is resuming at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. Likewise, depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion into uranium oxide at the Portsmouth Site in […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Four Rivers labeled ‘satisfactory’ overall in fee scorecard
Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, the Department of Energy contractor in charge of remediation at the Paducah Site in Kentucky, was deemed mostly “satisfactory” during fiscal 2021 and earned roughly half of its potential “adjective” fee, according to a recently-released scorecard from the agency. The joint venture made up of Jacobs, Fluor and BWX Technologies, earned […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Even With Sidelined DUF6 Plants, Mid-America Conversion Claims Most of Fee
With the Department of Energy’s depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion plants offline during fiscal 2021, Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services won 70% of its subjective fee and 95% of its performance-based incentive fee, according to a scorecard published last week. The contractor earned more than $1.3 million out of a potential $1.9 million in subjectively reviewed fees […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
DUF6 Work Resuming at Paducah Site, Portsmouth to Follow
After being offline for nearly two years due to a combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and plant upgrades, the Department of Energy says conversion of depleted uranium hexafluoride to a more stable form is resuming at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. Likewise, depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion into uranium oxide at the Portsmouth Site in […]





