PRESS RELEASE: Aiken, SC – March 10th, 2011
The Shaw/Areva MOX Services, LLC has awarded DeNuke Services a subcontract for provision of qualified/certified Quality Assurance Lead Auditor(s) and Auditor(s) to implement MOX Services Quality Assurance (QA) Program for suppliers and ensure compliance with NQA-1 and NRC 10CFR51 and 10CFR 52 requirements. “This MOX QA contract is a keystone contract for the growth of our commercial nuclear construction support business, which we have been cultivating since 2005. Our commercial nuclear construction support business is a key element of our growth strategy. This confidence DCS MOX has in DeNuke is a great testament to our expanding nuclear construction capabilities.” Said Fred Gardner, Chairman, DeNuke/ReNuke. “Paul Adams, will be in charge of our Aiken operations for this project from our new offices in Aiken, SC.”
DeNuke, incorporated in 2002, is a small Oak Ridge, Tennessee business with over 250 employees servicing DOE and commercial nuclear clients throughout North America and Asia.
Further Information: jcoffman@denuke.com
Aiken, SC – January 20, 2011
The Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC (SRNS) has awarded DeNuke Services a subcontract for provision of Radiological Control Technician support to the Transuranic Waste Program at the Savannah River Site. The two-year contract provides for radiologicl control technicians at three SRS project sites with peak manpower up to 28 technicians.
“We were evaluated as the apparent low cost bidder on this procurement, as we had planned. Our operating cost structure has been designed to efficiently manage contracts of this type. We are excited about SRNS as a new client and plan to develop a long lasting relationship.” said Fred Gardner, CHP Chairman. DeNuke also provides QA services to the MOX project in Aiken.
DeNuke, incorporated in 2002, is a small business with over 250 employees servicing DOE and commercial nuclear clients throughout North America and Asia. The ReNuke division of DeNuke is a bidder on nuclear reactor construction project support work at the Vogtle Unit 3&4 and Summer Unit 2&3 projects at Waynesboro, GA and Jenkinsville, SC respectively.
Paul Adams, Manager, DeNuke’s Aiken Area Office said, “ We have made a large commitment to develop our business and community involvement in the Savannah River area and the Carolinas Nuclear Cluster over the next few years, so this is a big step along our path to this goal. We will make our marks through the manner in which we treat SRNS, our employees and our contributions to the local community.”
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Los Alamos, NM – June 21st, 2010
The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), has awarded a Task Order to the MTOA team of Portage, Inc., Energy Solutions, Inc. and DeNuke Contracting Services, Inc., for staffing support to the MDA B Waste Excavation project at TA‐21 in Los Alamos, NM. The scope of work is to support LANS while performing the excavation of the first 10 mixed waste disposal trenches used from 1943 to 1948 during the fabrication of the Trinity plutonium test device and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki devices. DeNuke will provide Radiological Control Technicians and radiological instrumentation to the project.
“This is a world class project that has assembled a world class team of nuclear waste specialists to safely remove the waste and collect significant historical information,” said Rich Krett, VP Los Alamos Operations. ‘We have over three years of experience working on this project with Portage and Energy Solutions together, which gives LANS the benefits of a lot of careful planning. We look forward to “going hot” and reducing the risk to the community and the environment.’
DeNuke is a small, Oak Ridge based nuclear staffing and project services company, focused on nuclear energy projects across North America.
Contact Information Rich Krett; rkrett@denuke.com, 190 Central Park Square, Suite 207, Los Alamos, NM 87544, 1‐(505) 715‐7139
Further Information: jcoffman@denuke.com
May 2010 – Argonne Illinois – The DeNuke crew supporting the Clauss Construction’s D&D of the CP-5 Reactor Building, Building 330 at Argonne National Laboratory(ANL), are shown after the reactor building shell was safely collapsed. DeNuke is providing Radiological Controls and Industrial Safety support to Clauss for the project, involving the shipment of hundreds of truckloads of low level and demolition waste. DeNuke also supports the characterization of wastes for disposition at the NTS Disposal Site. There have been zero accidents on this project.
Members of this crew are shown here–Front Row-Sharon McChesney, Amanda Norwick, Ruby Razvi. Back Row-Sean McChesney, Steve Engle.
The project has been going since November 2009 under the leadership of Larry Erwin, DeNuke’s Supervisor and the Clauss Project Manager , Joe Nowak, shown with Fred Gardner, Founder, DeNuke . DeNuke is also supporting Clauss on bids for additional work at ANL.
By Jill McNutt — Removing 699,275 cubic feet of legacy material from a 613,642‑square‑foot building is no easy feat. But helping to make the job more manageable is a mega shredder that can shred thousands of pounds of waste a day.
Y‑12 acquired the mega shredder in 2009 from DeNuke Services, which had operated the shredder on site for another Y‑12 project. Now Y‑12 is using the mega shredder for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act cleanup projects. At Alpha 5 (Building 9201‑5), remediation teams are packaging, removing, and recycling or disposing of legacy material left in the building.
“On the fourth floor, the material is composed primarily of containers that were used for production and are no longer needed,” said Rick Brooksbank, deputy project manager. “As of the end of December, we’ve removed more than 3,317 of the 5,430 containers, and through the end of January, approximately 50 percent of those have been shredded.”
Facilities, Infrastructure, and Services is handling the removal, bagging each container to control contamination then loading 40 to 80 of them into a Sealand container (which is roughly the size of a boxcar) for transfer to the shredder. During the first two months of operation, Construction, which is a division of Transformation and Projects, has been operating the shredder, working extended shifts and hours to eliminate a backlog of material.
Old production containers from Alpha 5 are packaged in bags to control contamination before they are transferred and loaded into the shredder.
In preparation for receiving and shredding the materials, Construction had to perform a significant amount of site work and equipment modifications. The site was enlarged to accommodate staging of the Sealand containers coming from Alpha 5, and the area around the shredder was modified for a more efficient operation. Modifications were also made to the equipment to improve productivity.
The shredder is well suited for the Alpha 5 project because it limits hands-on work with waste containers. Additionally, this self-contained shredder has its own negative air system that captures any contaminants that might be generated during shredding as well as a liquid/solid separator that allows for compliant shipping when the shredded material is sent to the Nevada Test Site (NTS).
After shredding the contents of three or four Sealands, the material is consolidated into a single Sealand container for shipping to the NTS for disposal. Waste Management is ensuring that all material conforms to the NTS waste acceptance criteria (WAC).
“Utilizing a combination of radiological surveys, analytical data, process knowledge, non-destructive analysis, and visual inspections of the waste items ensures that we are meeting the NTS WAC,” said Tim Foust, lead waste management engineer. “This is accomplished through the cooperation of a number of Y‑12 departments that are working very well together to accomplish this task by the required deadline.”
Removing waste material from the fourth floor of Alpha 5 by March 31, 2010, is this project’s next significant milestone. Materials are expected to be removed from the remaining three floors by September 2011.
Be careful: Season of School Zones is Back
It’s that time that all kids kind of dread and parents rejoice. It’s back to school time. With this means more people on the road. There will be more kids being in school zones and neighborhoods. So please recognize this and try to slow down. Here are some tips for the back-to-school rush:
- Allow extra travel time so you don’t have to rush.
- In the car, make sure everyone is buckled up properly.
- Avoid distractions such as texting or talking on the phone while driving.
- Be alert and obey all traffic signs: stop signs, red lights and school zones.
- Always come to a complete stop for a school bus with its stop signs extended.
- Stop for pedestrians when making a right-turn on a red light or a left-turn on a green light.
- Teach kids to use crosswalks instead of crossing in the middle of the street.
- If children will ride their bikes, remind them to wear helmet at all times and to walk with the bike when crossing the street.
