The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management awarded the Portsmouth Infrastructure Support Services contract to AIS Technical Services LLC, a small business from Tempe, Arizona, to perform infrastructure support services at the Portsmouth Site, including its gaseous diffusion plant.
Leadership from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management recently visited the Portsmouth Site to observe firsthand the accelerating pace of cleanup work actively clearing the path for future reuse and energy development.
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Operators at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site are uniquely prepared to take on the formidable demands of the legacy X-333 Process Building demolition — including new cutting-edge machines with powerful shear attachments that few in the world have handled.
In the latest major cleanup achievement for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site, crews converted depleted uranium hexafluoride from 4,500 legacy cylinders into safer, more stable chemical forms, representing more than 20% of the site’s cylinder inventory and marking progress toward reducing material left from decades of uranium enrichment.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management University Programs are building a workforce pipeline to help complete the legacy nuclear cleanup mission.
Cleanup teams recently created a new database to keep equipment organized, save money and stick to the schedule of safely and efficiently demolishing a 33-acre legacy uranium enrichment building at the Portsmouth Site.
Leaders from the nation’s gaseous diffusion plant complex participated in the “Enriching Communities – A Renewed Purpose for America’s GDP Complex” panel at the National Cleanup Workshop.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site reached a significant milestone in the X-333 Process Building demolition when crews safely took down the 66,000-square-foot southwest corner of the 33-acre facility.