Fluor has received a 30-month extension on its contract at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) Project in Ohio. The estimated value of the award is approximately $750 million. The work will be performed by Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, LLC, a Fluor-led partnership, together with subcontractor CH2M and small business subcontractors Pro2Serve, Innovative Solutions and Wastren Advantage.
Fluor’s work at Portsmouth began in 2011, and the team has made solid progress in preparing the site’s largest facilities for demolition, along with the design and prep work for the construction of an on-site waste disposal cell. This contract extension will allow for the seamless advancement of the plant’s D&D mission. “Over the course of these next 30 months, we’ll be able to complete the deactivation of the X-326 uranium enrichment plant and begin deactivation of the X-333 process building,” Dennis Carr, Fluor’s program manager at Portsmouth, said. “These are two of the largest buildings under roof in the world. We’ll also be able to complete the design of the disposal cell and move forward with the construction so we can start receiving contaminated soil and construction debris. It’ll be a time of very visible progress.”
The extension is viewed as an affirmation of the team’s ability to achieve critical path milestones. “We’re pleased with the Department’s confidence in our performance and ability to take the next steps on what is the largest construction project in Ohio,” Bruce Stanski, Government Group president, said. “I’m proud of the safety culture our workers practice and the many site milestones that we’ve reached including two Records of Decision; processing $1 billion dollars in uranium inventory for barter and removal; and safe shipment of more than 7,000 process gas system components.”
The new contract includes an option for an additional 30-month extension, so Carr and the team are thinking long-term. “We’re in a good place right now in terms of alignment,” he said. “Our Customer, our employees, and our stakeholders have a shared vision of the future of the site, and we have a clear regulatory path forward. This 30-month extension, with the possibility for another 30 months if we perform well, will allow us to make significant progress toward achieving that end goal of re-use for the site.”
