The Babcock & Wilcox Company's (B&W) project management, engineering and construction management professionals have successfully delivered and supported the nation's most complex production and process facilities, nuclear facility closure projects and supporting infrastructure.
At the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Plant, managed and operated by BBWI, we are overseeing the safe retrieval, characterization, treatment and packaging of transuranic waste for shipment out of Idaho to permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.
One of B&W's nuclear manufacturing facilities successfully converted 50 metric tons of high-enriched uranium from U.S. nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.
B&W supported the Mound Closure Project, a 305-acre former nuclear weapons lab and production facility. Using an environmental restoration program, the site was decontaminated and decommissioned, and successfully transitioned back to the Ohio community.
Similar operations were performed at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site. There, B&W was tasked with characterizing, processing, repackaging and removing plutonium and uranium residues, metal and oxide in preparation of facility decontamination and dismantlement and eventual site closure.
At the Y-12 National Security Complex, the High Enriched Uranium Manufacturing Facility (HEUMF) is a modern replacement storage facility, slated to start full-scale operations in 2008. In addition to being a significant contribution to modernization at Y-12, the HEUMF will radically reduce the current storage footprint while dramatically improving security and lowering costs. This facility is the first step in the overall site modernization program to provide long-term stability for both the site and the community.
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