BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT) is making significant contributions to a cleaner future environment through our involvement with the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management projects. These projects are focused on removing legacy materials remaining at sites that previously housed high-consequence operations, primarily during the Cold War era.
We are applying the knowledge and expertise gained over 30+ years of providing decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) services to the U.S. government to treat, store and dispose of high-consequence waste and perform facility closures. This work is performed with the use of cutting-edge technologies, and we employ best practices to increase safety, security and cost efficiency while also driving a strong nuclear safety culture.
Services Provided:
- Waste management (e.g., characterization, retrieval, packaging, transportation, sorting/recycling, disposal)
- D4 (decontamination, dismantlement, deactivation, and decommissioning)
- Spent fuel storage and handling
- Remediation and restoration
- Nuclear materials management
- Program management
- Regulatory compliance
- Environmental safety, health and quality
- Planning and integration
- Workforce training and transition
Relevant Operations:
- Reduced tank farm liquid waste by 330,000 gallons
- Dispositioned and removed more than 800 facilities and structures
- Retrieved, characterized, treated, and shipped 65,000 cubic meters of stored transuranic and mixed low-level contaminated waste out of Idaho, U.S.
- Dispositioned 1.3 million curies of tritium
- First U.S. company to successfully complete major D&D released for unrestricted use at our commercial nuclear fuel fabrication facility
- Decommissioned three nuclear test reactors
