January 27, 2016

Portsmouth D&D Contractor Marks Safety Milestone

By ExchangeMonitor

Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, prime contractor on the decontamination and decommissioning project at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio, said on Tuesday that it had marked 2 million safe work hours.

The safety run began in August 2015, according to a press release. Safe work hours are “hours without a lost-time accident,” Fluor-BWXT said. There are 1,900 workers and subcontractors on the Portsmouth cleanup, which includes radiological, chemical, and industrial hazards.

The roughly 70-year-old Portsmouth Site, located about 100 miles south of Columbus, Ohio, produced weapon-grade uranium for the Pentagon and later refined fuel for commercial reactors.

Fluor-BWXT is a partnership of engineering and construction company Fluor Corp. of Irving, Texas, and nuclear power company BWX Technologies of Charlotte, N.C. The base period on the group’s roughly $1.1 billion Portsmouth cleanup contract with DOE’s Office of Environmental Management is set to expire on March 28. DOE holds a five-year option worth nearly $720 million.

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