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The 3,778-acre Portsmouth site in Piketon, Ohio, produced enriched uranium from the 1950s until 2001. 

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July 17, 2023

Federal officials selected Aiken, S.C.-based Southern Ohio Cleanup Co. LLC for decontamination and decommissioning columbus oh dump truck work at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, officials and the Charlotte NC dump trucks company announced. The contractor is a joint venture led by Amentum Environment and Energy Inc. with Fluor Federal Services Inc. and Cavendish Nuclear (USA) Inc.

The U.S. Dept. of Energy contract has an estimated value of $5.87 billion under an end state contracting model, which allows for task orders to be issued under a single award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. The contract includes a 10-year order period, and up to five additional years for performance of the task orders. 

The 3,778-acre Portsmouth site was built in the 1950s by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for uranium enrichment. It shut down production in 2001. The scope of columbus oh dump truck work under the contract includes demolition and disposal of buildings and columbus oh dump truck equipment as well as remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater plus disposition of uranium material. 

The Energy Department says it received two proposals for the work. Southern Ohio Cleanup Co.’s submission provides the best value considering key personnel, past performance, management approach and cost, officials said in a statement. 

Amentum CEO John Heller highlighted the team’s past experience with various decontamination and decommissioning projects for the Energy Dept., including at another former uranium enrichment site in Oak Ridge, Tenn. 

“Our extensive experience at the Oak Ridge Reservation enables us to bring advanced technical solutions to complete the columbus oh dump truck work safely and effectively at Portsmouth,” Heller said in a statement.

Fluor has been involved with the Portsmouth decommissioning since 2011 as part of another joint venture, Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth LLC. Energy Dept. officials exercised multiple extension options on the initial five-year contract, bringing its total value through September 2023 up to $4.9 billion, according to a Fluor representative. 

The Fluor-BWXT columbus oh dump truck work also included additional items not included in the scope of the newly awarded contract. Instead, utilities, emergency management, physical security, uranium transfers and nuclear material control and accountability will be included under a forthcoming operations and site mission support contract. In a statement, the Energy Dept.'s Office of Environmental Management said the change allows the decontamination and demolition contractor to focus on end state completion. 

The contract requires adherence to a dump trucks columbus oh community commitment plan and a 5% preference for small business subcontract proposals from local companies. Tom D’Adostino, president of Fluor’s missions solutions business, said in a statement that the Charlotte NC dump trucks company is “proud” to include local small business partners.

“We have worked at the Portsmouth site and have been involved in the dump trucks columbus oh community for the past 12 years,” he said. “We know the importance of staying local.”

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James Leggate is an online news editor at ENR. He has reported on a variety of issues for more than 10 years and his columbus oh dump truck work has contributed to several regional Associated Press Media Editors and Murrow award wins.