NUCLEAR FACILITY REMEDIATION

Since 1949, Parsons has provided nuclear analysis and remediation services to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor organizations.

Today, Parsons is assisting the DOE to modernize existing weapons facilities and perform environmental restoration and remediation at fuel fabrication facilities, plutonium and uranium extraction facilities, nuclear waste storage facilities, and sites involving light water moderated reactors.

Parsons has completed more than 400 tasks at the former plutonium and uranium production facility at Hanford, Washington, where graphite moderated reactors, fuel fabrication facilities, plutonium and uranium extraction facilities, and nuclear waste storage facilities are being remediated.

At the Savannah River site in South Carolina, Parsons is providing design, construction, start-up and one-year operations for the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF). This site has stewardship over the nuclear weapons stockpile and is remediating decommissioned facilities and waste piles. The new SWPF will process about 37 million gallons of high-level radioactive liquid waste.

The Fernald, Ohio, site has evolved from a production function to waste management and environmental restoration. We have completed over 300 environmental compliance documentation tasks; hazardous, mixed, and low level waste treatment sitings; performance assessments; closure plans and monitoring; safety analyses; and community relations at Fernald.

Rocky Flats, Colorado, is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site. Until 1989, the site manufactured nuclear components from plutonium, uranium, and beryllium, creating volumes of hazardous materials by-products in the process. The more than 200 tasks completed by Parsons include stabilizing waste piles, packaging and consolidating wastes, deactivating and decommissioning facilities, and performing environmental restoration.