More than 40 companies signed up to attend an industry session last month to learn more about a contract for further cleanup of the Central Plateau at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
There were more 90 registered participants representing companies including AECOM, Atkins, AVANTech, Bechtel, BWX Technologies, Fluor, Honeywell, Jacobs, Navarro Research, North Wind, Orano, and Westinghouse Government Services.
The current contract, held by CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation, is scheduled to expire on Sept. 30. However, it is expected to receive an extension of up to one year. The current pact is valued at $4.5 billion, along with $1.3 billion of work assigned as economic stimulus during the Obama administration.
In July, the Energy Department said it expected to issue a draft request for proposals for continued remediation of the Central Plateau by Sept. 30, after first holding the industry meeting in mid-August. The registration list was posted Aug. 27.
The CH2M contract includes a host of cleanup jobs at the contaminated former plutonium production facility, including decommissioning and demolishing facilities, waste site remediation, and management of transuranic waste.
CH2M, now owned by Jacobs Engineering Group, is also responsible for much of the remaining Hanford River Corridor cleanup.
The Central Plateau job has had its share of problems, including a spread of radioactive contamination last December around demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant. The incident halted the demolition project, which has not yet resumed.
