The APTIM-Amentum Alaska Decommissioning joint venture has won a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract worth $95.5 million over six years to take down an old reactor at Fort Greely, Alaska, Amentum said last week.
The Army Corps Baltimore District awarded the contract to decommission and dismantle the SM-1A Reactor Facility, Amentum said in a Thursday press release.
““APTIM and our heritage companies have a long history of supporting USACE [U.S. Army Corps of Engineers] and the Army Reactor Office (ARO) and have managed numerous Decontamination and Decommissioning projects across the federal complex,” David Lowe, APTIM, senior vice president for nuclear decommissioning, said in a press release.
The work will include planning, permitting, site preparation, demolition and disposal of facilities and components from the defueled nuclear reactor and its related facilities. The contract also includes cleanup of contaminated soils, a final status survey, and site restoration, according to the release.
Work should start in earnest in 2024 and be completed in 2029. The 20-megawatt nuclear reactor was completed in 1962 to supply electric power and heat to Fort Greely and also to see how the nuclear facility worked as a substitute for oil-fueled electric power generation. But the SM-1A nuclear plant shut down in 1968, partly because of high operating costs, according to the Corps.
Other members of the team include Heritage – M2C1 Joint Venture, a HUBZone small business location in Delta Junction, Alaska; Lynden Logistics; Brice Environmental; Oak Ridge Technologies; ReNuke Services; AECOM Technical Services; and Delta Junction Medical.
