Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services this week identified itself as an integrated subcontractor on the new Amentum-led cleanup contractor at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio.
The prime, Southern Ohio Cleanup Company also includes Fluor and Cavendish Nuclear. The team on July 13 received a Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning contract from DOE that is worth roughly $5.9 billion over 10 years, including options. Veolia announced its participation in the bid in a press release.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services said this week a joint venture in which it owns a 45% stake received a five-year, $40-million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clean up the Niagara Falls Storage Site.
The joint venture, Enviro-Fix, ECC of Burlingame, Calif. Under the contract the team will clean up the 1940s-vintage storage site, which during the Manhattan Project was used as a storage location for radioactive material. Perma-Fix announced the win in a press release. DOE Office of Legacy Management oversees Army Corps of Engineers nuclear cleanup projects.
Holly Flynn, a PhD researcher at Savannah River National Laboratory, received a five-year, $2.5-million Department of Energy grant for fusion energy research, the lab’s management and operations contractor announced this week.
The grant came from the Early Career Research Program at DOE’s Office of Science, Battelle Savannah River Alliance wrote in the release.
