Project Description: CSI supplied an In-Situ Object Counting Systems (ISOCS) Operator to perform Non Destructive Analysis (NDA) via Gamma spectroscopy in support of remediation of contaminated soil and debris at the former ASARCO Federated Metals site in Houston, Texas. The work scope included erosion and sediment control, storm water collection and filtration, surveying and sampling, site clearing, waste characterization, excavation, removal, packaging, transportation and disposal of up to 800,000 cubic feet of radioactive, hazardous, and mixed waste from a 14-acre site. The work was completed under the regulatory oversight of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to support removal of the site from the Texas Superfund registry. The Federated Metals Superfund site is located at 9200 Market Street, at the intersection of Market Street and Interstate 610 in Houston. The Union Pacific Railroad divides the property into the Northern Parcel (also called the Production Area) and the Southern Parcel (also called the Landfill). The inactive site is bound on the north by Market Street, on the west by Interstate 610, and on the south by a large property used for the disposal of materials dredged from the Houston Ship Channel. The Landfill was used as a disposal facility from the 1940s to 1979 for magnesium dross and sludge; refractory brick from recovery activities of nonferrous metal alloys; breakout material from electrolytic chlorine cells such as graphite anodes, asbestos material, and contaminated concrete; gasket rubber rings; and other waste materials.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to perform characterization surveys in support of remediation of contaminated soil and debris at the former ASARCO Federated Metals site in Houston, Texas. The work scope included erosion and sediment control, storm water collection and filtration, surveying and sampling, site clearing, waste characterization, excavation, removal, packaging, transportation and disposal of up to 800,000 cubic feet of radioactive, hazardous, and mixed waste from a 14-acre site. The work was completed under the regulatory oversight of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to support removal of the site from the Texas Superfund registry. The Federated Metals Superfund site is located at 9200 Market Street, at the intersection of Market Street and Interstate 610 in Houston. The Union Pacific Railroad divides the property into the Northern Parcel (also called the Production Area) and the Southern Parcel (also called the Landfill). The inactive site is bound on the north by Market Street, on the west by Interstate 610, and on the south by a large property used for the disposal of materials dredged from the Houston Ship Channel. The Landfill was used as a disposal facility from the 1940s to 1979 for magnesium dross and sludge; refractory brick from recovery activities of nonferrous metal alloys; breakout material from electrolytic chlorine cells such as graphite anodes, asbestos material, and contaminated concrete; gasket rubber rings; and other waste materials.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians and Jr. Health Physics Technicians to support the normal operations at Bear Creek Operations, one of six EnergySolutions Nuclear Waste Processing Facilities. The Bear Creek facility includes a licensed commercial LLRW processing facility, including the only commercially licensed radioactive metals recycling furnace and the largest LLRW incinerators in the U.S. It primarily receives waste from nuclear utilities, government agencies, industrial facilities, laboratories and hospitals. The Bear Creek facility also manages classified nuclear waste, which is specially processed to obscure any classified information.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians and Jr. Health Physics Technicians to support the Segregation of Canadian Waste at Bear Creek Operations, one of six EnergySolutions Nuclear Waste Processing Facilities. The Bear Creek facility includes a licensed commercial LLRW processing facility, including the only commercially licensed radioactive metals recycling furnace and the largest LLRW incinerators in the U.S. It primarily receives waste from nuclear utilities, government agencies, industrial facilities, laboratories and hospitals. The Bear Creek facility also manages classified nuclear waste, which is specially processed to obscure any classified information.

Project Description: CSI supplied Jr. Health Physics Technicians to survey Sea Land containers at Bear Creek Operations, one of six EnergySolutions Nuclear Waste Processing Facilities. The Bear Creek facility includes a licensed commercial LLRW processing facility, including the only commercially licensed radioactive metals recycling furnace and the largest LLRW incinerators in the U.S. It primarily receives waste from nuclear utilities, government agencies, industrial facilities, laboratories and hospitals. The Bear Creek facility also manages classified nuclear waste, which is specially processed to obscure any classified information.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians and Jr. Health Physics Technicians to support the shift work at Bear Creek Operations, one of six EnergySolutions Nuclear Waste Processing Facilities. The Bear Creek facility includes a licensed commercial LLRW processing facility, including the only commercially licensed radioactive metals recycling furnace and the largest LLRW incinerators in the U.S. It primarily receives waste from nuclear utilities, government agencies, industrial facilities, laboratories and hospitals. The Bear Creek facility also manages classified nuclear waste, which is specially processed to obscure any classified information.

Project Description: CSI provided Sr. Health Physics Technicians, Jr. Health Physics Technicians, Decontamination Technicians, Health & Safety Professionals, and Administrative Assistants to support the D&D of the ATG thermal treatment facility in Oak Ridge. ATG is a radioactive and hazardous waste management company that offers comprehensive thermal and non-thermal treatment solutions for low-level radioactive and low-level mixed waste generated by commercial entities such as nuclear power plants, medical facilities and research institutions, both in the United States and overseas, and by the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy. ATG developed a new non-thermal resin decontamination process, called Resin Decon Technology ("RDT"). The RDT provides a more cost-effective method for the processing and decontamination of ion-exchange resins produced by nuclear power plants. The RDT process, combined with ATG's Safglas thermal processing capabilities in Richland, Washington replaced the company's existing thermal treatment services in Oak Ridge.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support D&D at the NIST Boulder facility. Located by the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the NIST Boulder Laboratories have more than 350 scientific, technical, and support staff, and more than 300 visiting researchers, students, and contractors. With an annual research and measurement budget of about $100 million, NIST Boulder is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST Boulder provides research, measurements, technology, tools, data, and services. NIST Boulder is located near the University of Colorado at Boulder, and collaborates with industrial, academic, and government laboratories across the nation and around the world. NIST Boulder and the University of Colorado jointly operate JILA, a world leader in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and precision measurement.

Project Description: CSI provided Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support the Whittaker Corporation Site Remediation Project which included remediation of a 5.7 acre site of slag and soil byproducts located along the Shenango River in Transfer, Pennsylvania. The Whittaker Corporation, as well as prior owners of the site, used raw source material containing licensable quantities of thorium and uranium to process rare earth metals on site. The remediation was accomplished by means of site clearing, excavation of soil, soil separation, radiological waste minimization, and waste segregation. After completion of decommissioning activities, the site was remediated to levels that permitted license termination for unrestricted use. Whittaker is located within an industrial park, approximately 6 km south of Greenville, PA. The site comprises a 5.9 acre strip of land located between the Greenville Metals Plant and the Shenango River. The site is divided into four sections: Section 1 comprises the southern end of the site and consists of a mixture of slag and gravel which sits above a tributary leading to the Shenango River. Sections 2 and 4 are located in the center of the site. This area is comprised predominately of slag material. Two visually distinct types of slag are present. One slag is blue-green and the other is black. The blue-green slag has a glassy texture and the black slag is porous and rocklike. The black slag contains the radioactive material. Section 3 comprises the northern end of the site. A large part of Section 3 is covered by a concrete slab. Three sided bins containing slag material and piles of slag mixed with other debris are on top of the concrete pad. The bins contain low-level waste source materials and non-toxic industrial waste some of which is also contained in rusting drums. Facility topography (prior to the initiation of decommissioning) had been built up through the repeated disposal of slag, scrap metal, debris, and foundry sand. The slag piles had reached elevations of twenty feet or more above the adjoining river flood plain. The slag piles in Section 2 have been excavated and screened to remove the radioactive material, which was shipped for disposal.

Project Description: CSI provided Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support emergency response for a damaged source at the Ludlum facility in Sweetwater, Texas. Ludlum Measurements has been designing, manufacturing and supplying radiation detection equipment since 1962.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians, Jr. Health Physics Technicians, and Decontamination Technicians to support Equipment removal at The Curtis Bay Depot which is located beside the Chesapeake Bay and covers 493 acres. Beginning in the late 1950's, the General Services Administration (GSA) stored thorium nitrate in fiber and steel drums at the Curtis Bay Depot, under license first from the Atomic Energy Commission and later from the NRC, as part of the National Defense Stockpile. In 1988 National Defense Stockpile responsibility was transferred to the Defense Logistics Agency. Surveys by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) in 1992 indicated that the former warehouses and soil contained residual amounts of thorium, a radioactive material, in excess of NRC's limits for unrestricted use of the property. The site was cleaned up in 1994, with Final Status Surveys in 1995.

Project Description: CSI provided Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support Routine operations at the Waste Control Specialists (WCS) site. WCS is a 1,338-acre treatment, storage and disposal facility near Andrews, Texas dealing in radioactive, hazardous, and mixed wastes. WCS is licensed to dispose of Class A, B and C low-level radioactive waste. It is also licensed for the treatment and storage of low-level radioactive waste, and has served as a temporary storage facility for U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) projects. The company was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1989 as a landfill operator, and awarded a unique license for disposal of low level radioactive waste in 2009. The plant is located 5 miles east of Eunice, New Mexico, and 35 miles west of Andrews. The surrounding area on both sides of the state border, "nuclear alley", also includes the National Enrichment Facility (owned and operated by the Urenco Group) in Eunice, the deep geological repository Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP; managed by the United States Department of Energy), and the proposed first commercial uranium de-conversion facility in the United States, a project of International Isotopes, Inc.

Project Description: CSI supplied decontamination technicians to support D&D of the Canyon Cell facility, including component removal, UF6 passivation, asbestos abatement, and transport and disposal of LLRW and MLLW. The General Electric Company (GE) built a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Morris, Illinois, near the Dresden Nuclear Power Station. The plant was expected to reprocess 3 MTU per day. When the G.E.-Morris plant was in its final testing in 1975, the company determined that its performance would not be acceptable without extensive modifications. The request for a reprocessing plant operating license was withdrawn and the plant was licensed only to possess the spent nuclear fuel that it was under contract to reprocess. After modifying the storage system in its below-grade pool to hold more spent fuel, G.E.-Morris has received and stored 700 MTU of spent fuel for various owners.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Sr. Health Physics Technician for job coverage during transportation by rail from Huntersville, North Carolina to Clive Utah. Our expertise and personnel assisted EnergySolutions to prepare large components for transport via public highway, waterway, rail or combinations thereof to ensure safety and compliance with regulatory requirements. Large components include overweight and oversized nuclear components, such as reactor pressure vessels, steam generators, reactor heads, pressurizers, turbine rotors, reactor coolant pumps and feed water heaters. Work began in late 2008 and concluded in 2009 on the removal of 8 retired steam generators at the McGuire Nuclear Station in Huntersville, North Carolina. Each steam generator weighed approximately 340 tons. This project included engineering, processing, packaging, transport and disposal. Included in the work was the separation of the 11-ton steam domes from the lower assemblies and segmentation into half-ton sections; fabrication of closure plates and transport saddles to meet U.S. Department of Transportation requirements; and transportation of the lower assemblies and packaged waste for disposal at the Clive, Utah, facility.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Rigger to support the dismantlement and decommissioning of the S3G/S6G nuclear submarine refueling complex at Pearl Harbor, under a delivery order from the U.S. Navy. The work included removal of over two million pounds of waste which was shipped by ocean, rail, and highway to the Bear Creek waste processing facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The USA Navy’s operational submarines are nuclear-powered and use High Enriched Uranium (HEU), with a high enrichment level of 93 to 97.3 percent.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians and Labors to support on-site waste management and facility dismantlement services, including support of the scrap pack facility, processing sanitary waste for disposal, waste management consulting services, and various dismantlement projects for liabilities reduction at GE-Hitachi's Global Nuclear Fuels plant in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Radiological Engineer to perform a gamma walkover survey of the scales area, the perimeter of the scrap metal and fluff storage piles, paved roads and parking lots was performed at the Recycling Center in Waterloo, IN. Samples were taken for further analysis of the radioactive material found. Some of the material/equipment at this facility has origins that include the Fernald Closure Project, a former uranium processing facility located in southwest Ohio that underwent environmental remediation. MCM Management Corp., based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan owns the Waterloo Recycling Center and transfer services facility in Waterloo, Indiana’s west side development area in DeKalb County. The recycle station is 40,000 sq. ft. and the metal buyback facility is 28,000 sq. ft. The operation consists of a scrap metal shredder using a water/foam spray system for particulate matter control, a scrap metal separation line, scrap metal and fluff storage piles, paved roads and parking lots with public access. The facility recycles approximately 28 percent of the waste delivered there, including metals, stone and paper, with the remainder to be land filled.

Project Description: CSI supplied Jr. Health Physics Technicians to perform free release surveys for MSC Corporation in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Project Description: CSI supplied Health & Safety Professionals and Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support Laboratory clean-up at the Eagle-Picher Smelter Site in Galena, Kansas.

Project Description: CSI provided Health & Safety Professionals as well as Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support cleanup, removal and disposal services at SEFOR (Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor). Phase 1 included the cleanup of exterior grounds and burn pits, grubbing within the fenced in area of the site and tree removal from various locations, security fence maintenance, control of harmful insects, installation and setup of a radiological gate monitor, and performance of various radiological surveys throughout the site. Phase 2 included sampling and analysis of various soils and liquids throughout the site, asbestos abatement from all location of work areas complete, maintenance building cleanup, demolition, and disposal, maintenance tool shed cleanup, removal and disposal of underground storage diesel tank, septic tank system backfill and closure, 110 foot waste gas vent stack removal and disposal, removal of sodium from the secondary system, disposal of approximately 40,000 gallons of liquid waste to a publicly owned treatment works from the radioactive waste and gaseous vaults, and the sodium drain tank vault room. SEFOR is a deactivated experimental fast breeder reactor located in Cove Creek Township, Washington County, near West Fork, in northwest Arkansas (twenty miles sw of Fayetteville, Arkansas). The site consists of a deactivated 20-Megawatt (thermal), Sodium-Cooled Test Reactor, a Shop Building, an Operations Building, a Maintenance Shed, and an Electrical Transformer yard. It operated from 1969 to 1972 when the program ended. It was then acquired by the University of Arkansas, in hopes that it could be used as a research facility. However that never happened and cleanup of the site is underway.

Project Description: CSI supplied Certified Safety Professional, Sr. Health Physics Technicians, & Waste Technicians to support a $1.2 million task order for removal of selected systems and demolition of a 12,500-sq.-ft. building and nearby structures at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The contract also includes excavating soils beneath the structures. The work scope included gutting the building and removing such hazards as asbestos, lead paint, waste pipes, and mercury switches, demolition of the facility began in May and proceeded quickly. As part of the cleanup, a nearly new backup diesel generator was removed from the building and later donated to a nonprofit hospital in North Dakota. Waste removal and demolition work was performed. The Los Alamos National Laboratory ("LANL") occupies approximately 40 square miles located in northern New Mexico. LANL is the leading research facility of the National Nuclear Security Administration and birthplace of the atomic bomb. It is managed by Los Alamos National Security LLC. Since its inception in 1943, the primary mission of LANL has been focused on high-level science and technology essential to national defense and global security. Many of the activities and operations at LANL have produced solids, liquids and gases that contain radioactive and non-radioactive hazardous materials. Such activities include conducting research and development programs in basic and applied chemistry, biology and physics; fabricating and testing explosives; cleaning chemically contaminated equipment; and working with radioactive materials. Since environmental management work began in 1989 at LANL, the number of legacy sites there requiring further cleanup has been reduced by approximately 60 percent through active remediation, or by confirming that no action is needed. Los Alamos The laboratory was founded during World War II as a secret, centralized facility to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project, the Allied project to develop the first nuclear weapons. In September 1942, the difficulties encountered in conducting preliminary studies on nuclear weapons at universities scattered across the country indicated the need for a laboratory dedicated solely to that purpose. The laboratory was established in 1943 as site Y of the Manhattan Project for a single purpose: to design and build an atomic bomb. It took just 20 months. On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site on the Alamogordo bombing range. Under the scientific leadership of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the military direction of General Leslie R. Groves, scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians and Jr. Health Physics Technicians to support a field investigation that included soil sampling and radiological, geophysical, and topographic surveys on the Luckey Site. Additional groundwater monitoring wells were also installed. From 1942 to 1945, the Luckey Site was operated as a magnesium processing facility by National Lead. Between 1949 and 1958, the site was operated as a beryllium production facility by the Brush Beryllium Company (later Brush Wellman) for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). During that time, the AEC sent approximately 1,000 tons of radiologically contaminated scrap metal to the site for the Diamond Magnesium Company to resume magnesium processing. The beryllium facility was closed in 1959. The Remedial Investigation found the site is contaminated with radiological and chemical waste in soils and the groundwater. The primary radiological contaminants at the site include radium, uranium and thorium. The primary chemical contaminants at the site are beryllium and lead. Beryllium was detected above the drinking water standard in three on-site groundwater monitoring wells and in a rarely used on-site production well, that is not used for drinking water. The levels detected do not pose an unacceptable risk under current use conditions. The Remedial investigation field work occurred from June to September, 1998, and June to July, 1999. The Luckey site was investigated under the U.S. Army Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). Remediation of the Luckey Site is currently projected to begin in 2014, pending the completion of currently ongoing cleanups at other FUSRAP sites and the availability of program funding. Once soil remediation begins, the Corps will excavate impacted soils to achieve cleanup goals for unrestricted use of the site for subsistence farming. Excavated soils will be shipped off site for disposal at a licensed/permitted disposal facility.

Project Description: CSI supplied Health & Safety Professionals and Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support the Cell Cap Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians, Jr. Health Physics Technicians, and Decontamination Technicians to in support of remediation of contaminated soil and debris at the former ASARCO Federated Metals site in Houston, Texas. The work scope included erosion and sediment control, storm water collection and filtration, surveying and sampling, site clearing, waste characterization, excavation, removal, packaging, transportation and disposal of up to 800,000 cubic feet of radioactive, hazardous, and mixed waste from a 14-acre site. The work was completed under the regulatory oversight of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to support removal of the site from the Texas Superfund registry. The Federated Metals Superfund site is located at 9200 Market Street, at the intersection of Market Street and Interstate 610 in Houston. The Union Pacific Railroad divides the property into the Northern Parcel (also called the Production Area) and the Southern Parcel (also called the Landfill). The inactive site is bound on the north by Market Street, on the west by Interstate 610, and on the south by a large property used for the disposal of materials dredged from the Houston Ship Channel. The Landfill was used as a disposal facility from the 1940s to 1979 for magnesium dross and sludge; refractory brick from recovery activities of nonferrous metal alloys; breakout material from electrolytic chlorine cells such as graphite anodes, asbestos material, and contaminated concrete; gasket rubber rings; and other waste materials.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support remediation of burial pits containing radioactive materials at the former Michigan Chemical Company (MCC) site in Breckenridge, Michigan. Between 1967 and 1970, MCC operated a rare earth processing plant near St. Louis, Michigan. The MCC manufactured an array of chemical products, including fire-retardant materials, insecticides, animal food supplements, and rare earth oxides. Onsite groundwater is contaminated with DDT, chlorobenzene, carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethylene (TCE), and other chlorinated compounds. Onsite soil samples revealed contamination with PBBs, copper, chromium, zinc, and magnesium. The sediments of the Pine River were also contaminated with similar contaminants through direct discharges from the site. MCC used the Breckenridge site for the disposal of the process wastes from the MCC’s rare earth processing plant. The project included soil sampling, excavation and packaging of buried wastes, rail transport, and disposal of contaminated materials at the Clive, Utah disposal facility. As well as a final status survey report for site release from regulatory control.

Project Description: CSI supplied Health & Safety Professionals, Sr. Health Physics Technicians, and Jr. Health Physics Technicians to support the D&D of the K-33 former gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facility on the East Tennessee Technology Park on the Oak Ridge Reservation. Removal of the K-33 facility was a large-scale construction (demolition) project – touted as the “Largest Completed Demo Project in Oak Ridge History” by DOE in a September 30, 2011, news release. Covering 64 acres of floor space, precise building deconstruction was performed in planned stages using the right equipment and effective engineering with extensive input provided by field professionals. Demolition work was followed by removal of building slabs and contaminated soil. More than a simple industrial demolition on a grand scale, CSI’s support for this project included characterization of radioactive and other hazardous waste materials (including PCBs and asbestos); transportation, treatment, and disposal of radioactive and hazardous materials; radiological field operations; identifying and mitigating safety risks; performing radiological and hazardous material surveys and sampling; formal readiness prior to field mobilization; and safe D&D of contaminated structures as well as removal of slabs and contaminated soils. Highlights of the project include: • Demolished 2.8M ft2 of floor space five months sooner than scheduled. • Implemented an innovative application of a powered scaffolding system for removal of ACM transite siding (normally used for commercial construction masonry work) and a unique “snip and pull” technique that reduced demolition duration. • Achieved an average demolition waste transportation rate of 81 loads per day. • Performed surgical excavation of contaminated soils, identifying and removing only soil identified as contaminated as a result of through-slab investigations to reduce radioactive waste volumes and save cost. • Mitigated the release of hexavalent chromium, an unexpected consequence of building demolition, with minimal impact to project cost and schedule. • Disposed of 164,000 tons of waste with an outstanding safety record and meeting all objectives of the contract. The K-33 effort has been coordinated with other DOE contractors, including the Independent Verification Contractor, the ETTP EM Management & Integration Contractor (BJC), the BJC Power Integration Group (PIG), CROET, and Contractor Operations Management International (OMI). The K-33 work activities and removal actions are regulated by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980 and the Federal Facility Agreement (FFA) for the Oak Ridge Reservation. This project is guided by CERCLA for the building demolition and RCRA for the slab and soil removal, resulting in the generation of both RCRA and CERCLA waste streams. CSI supported the accelerated building demolition by five months and accelerated debris removal by three months. These efficiencies made it possible to add slab and contaminated soil removal to the scope of work. As well as successfully completed the field work associated with this additional work scope one month early, in August 2012.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to perform surveys of laboratories.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to perform surveys of laboratories at the SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). In 1962, in the rolling hills west of Stanford University, construction began on the longest and straightest structure in the world. The linear particle accelerator – first dubbed Project M and affectionately known as "the Monster" to the scientists who conjured it – would accelerate electrons to nearly the speed of light for groundbreaking experiments in creating, identifying and studying subatomic particles. Stanford University leased the land to the federal government for the new Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and provided the brainpower for the project, setting the stage for a productive and unique scientific partnership that continues today, made possible by the sustained support and oversight of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support the cleanup effort responsible for the packaging, transportation, treatment, and disposal of LLRW and MLRW waste at the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) cleanup site which is located within the currently operating 170-acre Naval Reactor's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) in Niskayuna, New York, near Schenectady. The facilities were a pilot plant to research the process to separate plutonium from irradiated matrices. The facilities and process systems were flushed and drained after operations ceased in 1953. On May 15, 1946, KAPL began with a contract between General Electric and the U.S. Government to conduct nuclear research and development, including the generation of electricity from nuclear energy. In 1950, the nuclear power plant project was converted to a Naval Nuclear Propulsion project. Several years’ later Knolls work joined that of Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory, and others in birthing the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus on January 21, 1954.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians, Decontamination Technicians to perform Equipment removal at the Niagara Project in Tonawanda, New York.

Project Description: CSI supplied Health Physics technicians to support D&D of the Battelle Columbus Laboratory, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Since its founding in 1929, Battelle serves the national security, health and life sciences, and energy and environmental industries. Battelle is the world’s largest nonprofit research and development organization, with over 22,000 employees at more than 130 locations globally. Battelle maintains a contract research portfolio spanning consumer and industrial, energy and environment, health and pharmaceutical and national security.

Project Description: CSI supplied EnergySolutions with Health & Safety Professionals and Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support D&D operations at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Activities included characterization, removal, packaging and final disposition of buildings. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, is one of the largest shipyards in the world specializing in repairing, overhauling and modernizing ships and submarines. It's the oldest and largest industrial facility that belongs to the U.S. Navy, and it's also the most multifaceted.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Sr. Health Physics Technician to support preparation and transport of large components via public highway, waterway, rail and combinations thereof to ensure safety and compliance with regulatory requirements. Large components include overweight and oversized nuclear components, such as reactor pressure vessels, steam generators, reactor heads, pressurizers, turbine rotors, reactor coolant pumps and feed water heaters from SONGS to Clive Utah. Licensing and Disposal of Steam Generator Lower Assemblies (SGLA) to include removal of retired steam generators at the San Onofre Electric Generating Station in California. Each steam generator weighed approximately 340 tons and required a special permit from the U.S. Department of Transportation allowing the transportation of their old SGLA. This project included engineering, processing, packaging, transport and disposal and transportation of the Steam Generators and packaged waste for disposal at the Clive, Utah facility.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) to support site remediation, and recovery from a tornado at the Mallinckrodt facility.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support site characterization with EnergySolutions as part of the LLNS (Lawrence Livermore National Security) transition team responsible for the Environmental Remediation and D&D Program evaluation. The team also supported transition activities related to RCRA permits, waste management and facilities and infrastructure. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has applied cutting-edge science and technology to enhance national security. The Laboratory was established in 1952 at the height of the Cold War to meet urgent national security needs by advancing nuclear weapons science and technology. Livermore made its first major breakthrough with the design of a thermonuclear warhead for missiles that could be launched from highly survivable submarines. The Laboratory went on to develop the first high-yield warheads compact enough that several could be carried on each ballistic missile Renowned physicists E.O. Lawrence argued for the creation of a second laboratory to augment the efforts of the laboratory at Los Alamos. At his laboratory on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, Lawrence had created the model of how large-scale science should be pursued — through multidisciplinary team efforts. Activities began at Livermore under the aegis of the University of California to follow Lawrence’s team-science approach and be a “new ideas” laboratory.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Civil Engineer to write procedures for EnergySolutions at Commerce Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support site characterization at the Zion Station D&D Project. During the course of the project, some major scope activities to be completed include transferring over 2,000 spent fuel assemblies to storage on an ISFSI, removing major components such as the reactor vessel, steam generators, pressurizers, turbines, generators, main power transformers and other large components, demolishing and removing all buildings and structures with the exception of the ISFSI, transporting and disposing of radioactive and hazardous waste and remediation of the site to unrestricted release criteria as specified by the NRC. Zion Solutions entered into an arrangement with Exelon to dismantle Exelon's Zion nuclear facility located in Zion, Illinois, which ceased operation in 1998. Upon closing, Exelon transferred to Zion Solutions substantially all of the assets (other than land) associated with Zion Station, including all assets held in its nuclear decommissioning trust fund. In consideration for Exelon's transfer of those assets, Zion Solutions agreed to assume decommissioning and other liabilities associated with Zion Station. Zion Solutions also took possession and control of the land associated with Zion Station pursuant to a lease agreement executed at the closing. Zion Solutions is under contract to complete the required decommissioning work according to an established schedule and to construct a dry cask storage facility on the land for the spent nuclear fuel currently held in spent fuel pools at the Zion Station. Exelon retains ownership of the land and the spent nuclear fuel and associated operational responsibilities following completion of the Zion Station D&D project. The NRC approved the transfer of the facility operating licenses and conforming license amendments from Exelon to Zion Solutions. At the conclusion of the project any remaining plant facilities and associated amended licenses are returned to Exelon and the lease terminates.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Radiological and Hazardous Waste Broker to support the removal and disposal of obsolete materials and equipment, including turbine casings and rotors, from Dresden Electric Generating Station. Turbine rotors and casings were removed from Dresden and transferred to a Memphis, Tennessee facility for processing. Engineering and planning work was performed for similar upcoming outages. The waste materials were transported for disposal at the Clive, Utah facility. In 1978, Dresden Unit 1 was retired and is now designated a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society. While in operation, the unit was capable of generating 210 MW of electricity. Dresden Units 2 and 3 began commercial operation in July 1970 and November 1971, respectively. In October 2004, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission renewed the operating licenses for both units for an additional 20 years, extending them to 2030 and 2031. Both units contain boiling water reactors designed by General Electric. Unit 2 is capable of generating 869 megawatts (MW) of electricity, while Unit 3 is capable of generating 871 MW.

Project Description: CSI supplied EnergySolutions with Health & Safety Professionals, Sr. Health Physics Technicians, and Decontamination Technicians to support D&D operations at the Newport News shipyard. Activities included characterization, removal, packaging and final disposition of ten unused facilities. The project was a success and yielded improved schedule performance and cost savings for the shipyard. Newport News Shipbuilding was the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States prior to being purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2001. The company is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, also located adjacent to Hampton Roads. In March 2011 Newport News Shipbuilding, along with the shipbuilding sector of Northrop Grumman spun-off to form a new company called Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Sr. Health Physics Technician to Survey of M-130 Casks for EnergySolutions in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Project Description: CSI supplied Decontamination Technicians to support equipment removal of a 6,000 square foot building in the Bear Creek Complex in Oak Ridge, TN known as the Shaw building, that EnergySolutions purchased from Shaw.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Project Manager to support a RFP site walk down at Vermillion (Newport Chemical Depot) in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Project Description: CSI supplied Health & Safety Professionals, and Decontamination Technicians to support size reduction and shipment of fuel pins at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians and Jr. Health Physics Technicians to support the D&D as well as the MARSSIM final status survey at the Gallaher Road facility in Kingston, Tennessee which is located adjacent to Oak Ridge, Tennessee and provides specialty waste processing and transportation logistical services. The Gallaher Road facility was also the base for Hittman trucking operations and containers for transporting radioactive materials.

Project Description: CSI supplied Maintenance Technicians to support Equipment Maintenance at the Bear Creek Operations, which is one of six EnergySolutions Nuclear Waste Processing Facilities. The Bear Creek facility includes a licensed commercial LLRW processing facility, including the only commercially licensed radioactive metals recycling furnace and the largest LLRW incinerators in the U.S. It primarily receives waste from nuclear utilities, government agencies, industrial facilities, laboratories and hospitals. The Bear Creek facility also manages classified nuclear waste, which is specially processed to obscure any classified information.

Project Description: CSI supplied Health & Safety Professionals, Sr. Health Physics Technicians, and Jr. Health Physics Technicians to support the D&D of the K-33 former gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facility on the East Tennessee Technology Park on the Oak Ridge Reservation. Removal of the K-33 facility was a large-scale construction (demolition) project – touted as the “Largest Completed Demo Project in Oak Ridge History” by DOE in a September 30, 2011, news release. Covering 64 acres of floor space, precise building deconstruction was performed in planned stages using the right equipment and effective engineering with extensive input provided by field professionals. Demolition work was followed by removal of building slabs and contaminated soil. More than a simple industrial demolition on a grand scale, CSI’s support for this project included characterization of radioactive and other hazardous waste materials (including PCBs and asbestos); transportation, treatment, and disposal of radioactive and hazardous materials; radiological field operations; identifying and mitigating safety risks; performing radiological and hazardous material surveys and sampling; formal readiness prior to field mobilization; and safe D&D of contaminated structures as well as removal of slabs and contaminated soils. Highlights of the project include: • Demolished 2.8M ft2 of floor space five months sooner than scheduled. • Implemented an innovative application of a powered scaffolding system for removal of ACM transite siding (normally used for commercial construction masonry work) and a unique “snip and pull” technique that reduced demolition duration. • Achieved an average demolition waste transportation rate of 81 loads per day. • Performed surgical excavation of contaminated soils, identifying and removing only soil identified as contaminated as a result of through-slab investigations to reduce radioactive waste volumes and save cost. • Mitigated the release of hexavalent chromium, an unexpected consequence of building demolition, with minimal impact to project cost and schedule. • Disposed of 164,000 tons of waste with an outstanding safety record and meeting all objectives of the contract. The K-33 effort has been coordinated with other DOE contractors, including the Independent Verification Contractor, the ETTP EM Management & Integration Contractor (BJC), the BJC Power Integration Group (PIG), CROET, and Contractor Operations Management International (OMI). The K-33 work activities and removal actions are regulated by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980 and the Federal Facility Agreement (FFA) for the Oak Ridge Reservation. This project is guided by CERCLA for the building demolition and RCRA for the slab and soil removal, resulting in the generation of both RCRA and CERCLA waste streams. CSI supported the accelerated building demolition by five months and accelerated debris removal by three months. These efficiencies made it possible to add slab and contaminated soil removal to the scope of work. As well as successfully completed the field work associated with this additional work scope one month early, in August 2012.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to Survey a Cask in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Project Description: CSI provides on-going engineering support to the ORNL at HIFER as well as operations and decontamination at the NNFD since April 2008. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, or ORNL, located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is one of the DOE's largest science and energy laboratories. Managed since April 2000 by a partnership of the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, ORNL was established in 1943 as a part of the Manhattan Project to pioneer a method for producing and separating plutonium.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support Laboratory clean-up in Columbia, South Carolina.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Senior Radiological Engineer with experience as a radiological and hazardous waste shipper to perform a confirmatory survey of O'Rourke Wrecking Company’s specialty demolition heavy equipment (Cat 385C Excavator) used at the K-25 facility in Oak Ridge Tennessee. O’Rourke Specialty Contracting Inc. leased a Cat 385C Excavator to UCOR at the K-25 demolition project. K-25 is a former uranium enrichment facility of the Manhattan Project which used the gaseous diffusion method. The plant is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on the southwestern end of the Oak Ridge Reservation. The excavator was used at K-25 inside the radiologically contaminated area for approximately 16 months. The isotopes of concern in the areas that the excavator was used are uranium isotopes. Technetium-99 is present on the K-25 demolition site but is isolated from the uranium contaminated areas by a buffer zone to preclude cross contamination. Free-release of the excavator from the radiologically contaminated areas was a time consuming and complicated evolution requiring a number of working groups to coordinate disassembly, decontamination, and radiological surveys of the excavator in stages. O’Rourke Specialty Contracting Inc. requested an independent verification of the equipment free-release by Carl’s Services Inc.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to support decontamination and decommissioning at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) in Buffalo, NY. The WVDP is located on the site of the only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to have operated in the United States. It is currently generating and storing mixed waste owned by the State of New York and expects to generate and store mixed waste in the future. The site is located on 3,340 acres of state-owned land approximately 30 miles southeast of Buffalo, New York. High-level waste solidification was completed in 2002. Work at the site is now concentrated on decontamination and decommissioning at the West Valley site. West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) - The WVDP is located on the site of the only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to have operated in the United States. It is currently generating and storing mixed waste owned by the State of New York and expects to generate and store mixed waste in the future. The site is located on 3,340 acres of state-owned land approximately 30 miles southeast of Buffalo, New York. High-level waste solidification was completed in 2002. Work at the site is now concentrated on decontamination and decommissioning at the West Valley site.

Project Description: CSI supplied a Gamma spectroscopy specialist to support site remediation at the Kerr McGee site in West Chicago, Illinois.

Project Description: CSI supplied Shear Operator for Procedures

Project Description: CSI supplied Health & Safety, Shear Operator

Project Description: CSI supplied Lab Operator

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr Health Physics Technicians

Project Description: CSI supplied Transportation Specialist

Project Description: CSI supplied Health & Safety Technician & Jr Hp's

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr. Health Physics Technicians to Survey a Cask in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr Health Physics Technician walkover survey

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr Health Physics Technician waste disposal

Project Description: CSI supplied Sr Health Physics Technician walkover survey

Project Description: CSI supplied Rad Engineer Sr Health Physics Technician Deconers for remediation

Project Description: CSI supplied Radiological Engineer & Sr Health Physics Technician for disposal of components