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PRESS RELEASE: Tokyo, Japan – March 17, 2011
Frederick Gardner, CHP is travelling to Tokyo to assess the ways DeNuke can help in the recovery. Mr. Gardner, Certified by the American Board of Health Physics in 1980 in Comprehensive Practice, is an expert in emergency response, radiation protection, and disaster recovery, having served during the TMI-2 recovery and the Katrina disaster.
Mr. Gardner, founder of DeNuke, knows the people in the global nuclear industry and can rapidly identify and provide the nuclear experts, equipment and systems that will be needed for the short and long term recovery efforts.
Mr. Gardner can be reached at duke@denuke.com or from Japan 010+1+770-331-3950.
DeNuke Contracting Services, Inc. is an Oak Ridge, Tennessee based 250 person nuclear projects and staffing company, incorporated in 2002, specializing in radiation protection, waste management, reactor design, maintenance and operations.
Further Information: jcoffman@denuke.com
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.
DeNuke has been awarded a task order subcontract to CHPRC for heath physics support to the Plateau Remediation effort at the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington. As a subcontractor to CHPRC, DeNuke will initially provide a cadre of health physics technicians.
“We expect to be providing a significant number of new jobs in the Hanford area, and with high demand for health physics technicians, we are prepared pay our employees a fair and reasonable wage and benefit package to ensure we deliver fully trained and qualified technicians at highly competitive rates.” Said John Coffman, DeNuke’s President . “It’s incumbent upon us to deliver the highest caliber of people to ensure the success of the CHPRC mission.”
DeNuke will coordinate the administration of and provide fully qualified individuals to perform as Contracted Radiological Control Technicians (CRCTs) to augment the current cadre of Radiological Control Technicians employed at the Hanford Site.
Tradewind, a SDVSB headquartered in Richland, WA will support the project as a DeNuke subcontractor. “We are prepared to support the DeNuke subcontract with local knowledge of the workforce and a dedication to safety, quality and mission success, “said Jeff Hertzel, President of Tradewind.
DeNuke, founded in 2002, is a small business providing services to commercial and government nuclear clients throughout the US. With 135 employees operating in 15 states, DeNuke, and its commercial division, ReNuke, has supported some of the toughest cleanup projects in the US.
The Hanford Plateau Remediation Contract (PRC) will advance the cleanup of the central portion of the Hanford Site, known as the 200 Area or the Central Plateau, which once housed five chemical separations buildings and other facilities that separated and recovered plutonium and other materials for use in nuclear weapons. The scope of the PRC contract includes completion of the Plutonium Finishing Plant project; characterization of facilities and waste sites; disposal activities related to non-tank farm waste; environmental surveillance and maintenance; groundwater monitoring and remediation; environmental remediation; and development of documents for regulatory and other decisions covering groundwater, soil, and facilities.
DeNuke, a small, Oak Ridge based nuclear staffing and project services company, has received a subcontract to support UT Battelle at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory with acceleration of cleanup activities funded by ARRA. DeNuke will provide RadCon Technicians under a competitively bid fixed unit price subcontract. The subcontract covers ARRA project support services though October, 2012.
“We founded our company on our Oak Ridge base, and since 1996, we’ve been a safe, solid provider of high quality technical safety staff to our Oak Ridge clients. We’re pleased to have UT Battelle-ORNL as a repeat client, adding Rad Con services to our existing ERWM support services.” said Fred Gardner, Founder.
DeNuke currently provides heath physics support , funded by the ARRA, to B&W Y-12, Los Alamos National Lab, Portage, Inc. at the Los Alamos MDA-B Project, Argonne National Laboratory, the Accelerated Remediation Company at Mound OU-1 and SPRU (in Niskayuna, NY) and Paducah Remediation Company at Paducah, Kentucky.
DeNuke provides nuclear project staffing and technical support to DOE and commercial nuclear power clients. With over 215 employees, DeNuke is known for nimble responsiveness, and maintaining equitable relationships with employees, clients and suppliers.
The DeNuke motto is “Safely…Correctly…Once.”
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DeNuke has been awarded a one year Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with two, one year options for Waste Management Support in Lemont, Illinois at the Argonne National Laboratory, operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC. “This new contract is a result of the fine waste management work products the DeNuke staff have been providing ANL since 2008,” said Fred Gardner, Founder. “We are particularly aware that ANL’s receipt of ARRA funding will require new control processes and procedures, additional technical staff and a focus on safety to address the accelerated removal of very challenging legacy wastes from ANL. We’re proud of our expertise to meet these mission requirements.”
DeNuke is a diverse, Oak Ridge based, small business providing nuclear services and staffing with over 155 employees in 15 states. “With half our business in DOE radiation protection, safety, remediation and waste management projects and half in commercial nuclear power maintenance and new reactor construction projects we are well positioned to weather the current economic crisis. The benefit of our diversity is that we can tap into personnel resources across the country to support our clients with high quality people,” said John Coffman, President. DeNuke has extensive experience in providing professional, management, and technical waste management staffing and support services at multiple DOE facilities throughout the U.S., including active subcontracts for technical staffing support at ANL, INL, LANL, PDGP, PORTS, Y-12, SPRU, Hanford, ORNL , and Mound OU-1.
Argonne National Laboratory conducts research in basic science, energy resources, and environmental management. The organization pursues research and development programs in nuclear waste management, spent fuel management, reactor systems, plant life extension, nuclear non-proliferation, isotope production, nuclear regulatory support, space nuclear applications, next generation nuclear plant concepts, and industrial support programs. Argonne National Laboratory became the first national laboratory in 1946, and is based in DuPage County, Illinois, about 25 miles southwest of Chicago. Argonne National Laboratory is operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy.
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