Fernald Citizens Advisory Board and Public Tours Silos Project
On Tuesday, April 6 about 60 Fernald stakeholders including members
of the Fernald Citizens Advisory Board, Fernald Residents for
Environmental Safety and Health (FRESH), and site neighbors attended
a two-hour tour of Fernald’s highest profile project. The
Department of Energy and Fluor Fernald hosted the Silos tour to
give stakeholders a chance to see the extraction and treatment
facilities up close, before operations begin later this month.
Visitors got a chance to climb the walkway above the K-65 silos, see
the four steel 750,000-gallon transfer tanks that will hold the
sluiced Silos 1 and 2 waste and walk through the entire remediation
facility. Then they had a chance to see the control room for the
project in which dozens of monitors and readouts track the
operations from beginning to end. Finally the groups walked through
the Silo 3 extraction and packaging facility. This system is set to
go on-line in April.
About 60 members of the public, including Kevin
Fitzpatrick from Congressman Steve Chabot's office, pose for a photo
beside the Silo 3 tension support structure with Silo 2 in the
background. (8058D-14)
Fluor Fernald Silos Project Manager Don Paine explains to FRESH member and neighbor Edwa Yocum how the
sluice and pump modules will move waste slurry from the silos and
into the four large transfer tanks. (8058D-21)
DOE Project Manager Johnny Reising
shows local stakeholders Sandy Butterfield and Vickie Dastillung
how Silo 3 material will be loaded into soft-sided containers
before being sealed and loaded for truck shipment to the Nevada
Test Site.
(8058D-38)
Fluor Fernald Silos Project Manager John North
shows the shipping containers that will be used to hold
stabilized Silo 1 and 2 waste to Building Trades representatives.
When loaded, each container will weigh about 21,000 pounds.
(8058D-46)
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