Construction Begins on RLWTF-Upgrade Project
WC Monitor
1/30/2015
Construction work has begun on the first phase of a project to replace the aging Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Late last week, Los Alamos National Security, LLC, the managing contractor at the lab, issued a notice to proceed with construction to subcontractor Yearout Industrial to begin work on a new low-level liquid waste facility. Yearout Industrial’s contract is set to run for 18 months and is valued at approximately $25 million, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos Site Office.
The new low-level liquid waste facility is one of two the NNSA plans to build at Los Alamos to replace the lab’s existing Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility, which is an aging facility with a history of leaks that led to concerns that ongoing operations could be threatened due to a lack of an adequate waste processing ability. Along with the new low-level waste facility, NNSA is also planning to build a new facility to process liquid transuranic waste. The low-level waste facility is scheduled to be completed and ready for operation by early 2018, with the transuranic waste facility to be completed in 2020.
