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About
Fernald
6924-1B and 6924-1C
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across the photo and see the North facing view of Fernald change to the
Conceptual Post Remediation Plan.
Cleanup
The Fernald Closure Project (called the Fernald site) is a former uranium
processing facility located 18 miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1989, after 37 years of operations to support the U.S. weapons
program, site management shut down uranium metal production to
concentrate on environmental compliance, waste management and
remediation.
Since 1992,
Fluor Fernald has managed the cleanup of the 1,050-acre Fernald site
for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). To coordinate fieldwork
and leverage manpower and funding resources, Fluor Fernald organized
site cleanup into the following projects:
Silos 1 and 2
–
8,900 cubic yards of low-level
radioactive, radium bearing waste
Silo 3
–
5,100 cubic yards of low-level radioactive
waste
Waste Pits
–
790,000 tons of low-level
radioactive waste
Soil
and Disposal Facility
–
2.2 million cubic yards of
contaminated soil
Building Decontamination and Demolition
–
223 buildings and structures
Aquifer Restoration
–
170 acres of the Great Miami Aquifer
Waste Management
–2.5 billion pounds of waste
Nuclear
Material Disposition Project
–
31 million net pounds of
uranium product
The cleanup
projects are based on regulatory approved Records of Decision (final
cleanup plans). For more information about Fernald’s cleanup
projects, visit the
Cleanup
section of the web site.
Fernald’s 2006-Closure Plan
In 2001, the DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM), which
oversees the Department’s waste management and environmental cleanup
efforts, conducted a top-to-bottom review of all DOE sites
nationwide to monitor cleanup progress. DOE-EM issued the results
of the review in February 2002, emphasizing the need for fundamental
changes in how cleanup is performed throughout the complex. To
encourage reform, DOE plans to provide incentives to those sites
that work in partnership with their regulators, contractors and
communities to accomplish accelerated cleanup and risk reduction.
The incentives may include additional funding, technical assistance
and programmatic support to develop cleanup agreements with state
and federal regulators.
In response,
DOE and Fluor Fernald issued a revised execution baseline in March
2002 that outlines how Fernald will achieve site closure by late
2006, three years earlier than the site’s current baseline. To
attain site closure, Fluor Fernald must remediate all contaminant
sources, contain all groundwater contamination, and develop
long-term treatment and monitoring capabilities. In general, the
execution baseline identifies specific activities Fluor Fernald will
accelerate in each of the major cleanup projects.
For more information
Contact Sue Walpole, S.M. Stoller, 513-648-4026, email:
sue.walpole@fernald.gov
or visit the Closure Contract on the web
site.
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