Comprehensive Client Site Services for Nuclear Material Licensees

EnergySolutions is the leader in providing services and solutions to the commercial sector for the safe management, handling, and disposition of radioactive material from client sites. Our services address the full life cycle of radioactive material generation from initial guidance, identification and characterization, to removal and packaging, to shipment offsite for further processing, volume reduction, and disposition.

Our clients encompass hundreds of licensees, including nuclear utilities, radiopharmaceutical facilities, universities, laboratories, radioactive source manufacturers, material processors, and other facilities that use radioactive materials. With over 20 years of experience, providing a full range of services to these licensees, we can apply innovations and efficiencies to develop the right cost-effective solution to any emergent nuclear operations or radiological challenges facing our clients.

 

 Onsite Services and Logistics

 Decontamination and Decommissioning

 

  • Brokerage
  • Casks and Containers
  • Centrifuge (sludge treatment)
  • Characterization
  • Compaction
  • Emergency response
  • Fuel Pool Clean-up
  • Instrumentation services
  • Large component logistics
  • Reactor Pressure Vessels
  • Steam Generators
  • Pressurizers
  • Licensing services
  • Life-of-plant services
  • Liquid waste processing
  • Chemical injection
  • Filtration/demineralization
  • Make-up water
  • Rapid and standard dewatering
  • Reverse osmosis
  • Project management
  • Radioactive waste management
  • Low level radioactive waste
  • Intermediate level waste
  • Mixed waste
  • Transuranic (TRU) waste
  • High level waste
  • Profiling
  • Repackaging
  • Manifesting/shipping
  • Volume reduction
  • Radiological consulting and engineering
  • Tank cleaning
  • Training
  • Transportation

 

  • D&D planning
  • Program audits
  • Licensing and regulatory support
  • Risk assessment
  • Release criteria development
  • Project management
  • Cost estimation and updates
  • Historical Site Assessment
  • Scoping and characterization surveys and reports
  • Decontamination, demolition, and disassembly
  • Remediation
  • Radiological engineering/health physics
  • Analytical services
  • Final status surveys
  • License termination

 

Experience

Nuclear Power Plants (BWRs and PWRs) — Onsite solid and liquid radioactive waste treatment services and support during outages, replacement projects, and decommissioning operations. Removal, volume reduction, and cask shipments of highly irradiated components from spent fuel pools such Control Rod Blades, detectors, power range monitors, filters, etc.

Radiopharmaceutical Institutions — Waste management guidance, brokerage, packaging, and shipment to offsite processing or disposal sites for waste streams such as aqueous liquids, lab items, dry active waste, and biological waste. Full range of decommissioning services to shutdown laboratories.

Universities — Dismantling and disposition of gloveboxes, hoods, laboratory equipment, and other materials for universities dealing with legacy waste from shutdown test reactors or waste generated from routing isotope operations.

Material processing facilities and fuel fabrication facilities — Characterization, packaging, transportation, and disposal of uranium- and thorium-contaminated materials.