Energy Solutions
299 South Main Street, Ste. 1700 , Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

EnergySolutions is an international nuclear services company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with operations throughout the United States, Canada and Japan. EnergySolutions is an industry leader in the safe recycling, processing and disposal of nuclear material. We provide a full range of Decommissioning and Decontamination (D&D) services to shut down nuclear power plants. Our customers include the United States Government, all United States Nuclear Power Plants, along with various medical and research facilities.

EnergySolutions offers a full range of services for the decommissioning and remediation of nuclear sites and facilities, management of spent nuclear fuel, the transportation of nuclear material and environmental cleanup of nuclear legacy sites.

Decommissioning and Decontamination

EnergySolutions understands that nuclear power is important for the nation’s energy balance and our customers’ business. However, when plant operating licenses expire or other events result in nuclear power plant shutdowns, we are ready to help address your decommissioning needs. Our two decades of nuclear decommissioning expertise, fully integrated D&D offerings, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) can assist you with early planning through successful project execution and license termination (DECON or SAFESTOR).

• Only company designed, built, and focused on nuclear decommissioning that owns all critical assets, services, and LLRW disposal site that are also uniquely linked and integrated in one company
• Only non-utility that has integrated all facets of decommissioning project planning and execution while holding a 10CFR50 license
• The only company with a proven, successful, and comprehensive “D&D Management Model” incorporating decades of lessoned learned
  Owns all aspects of decommissioning scopes of work, including safety, regulatory, radiological, effluent controls, without outsourcing
• The most experienced company in the United States in the area of License Termination Plans (LTP), leading the development and submittal of four License Termination Plans

Bear Creek Processing Facility

The EnergySolutions Bear Creek Processing Facility is located near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The facility’s primary function is the safe processing and packaging of radioactive material for permanent disposal. Volume reduction and repacking of the material is the primary goal of the facility. The facility houses radioactive materials processing capabilities including bulk waste assay, decontamination, recycle, compaction, incineration, metal melting, and a variety of specialty waste stream management options. The facility operates under regulatory authority of the state of Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) Division of Radiological Health (DRH) in agreement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and is ANI insured.

The following processes are utilized to ensure the material is safely processed and packaged for transportation and disposal.

• Sort and Segregation – This process allows our employees to determine the next steps in volume reduction by segregating certain metals for
• recycling and the rest to be compacted, incinerated or repackaged for transportation and disposal.
• Compaction – Material is compacted reducing volume up to 20 to 1, thereby reducing disposal costs.
  Incineration – This is the the very latest in technology, to incinerate materials with up to a 200 to 1 volume reduction. Our processes also keep air emissions well below state of Tennessee standards.
• Metal Melt (recycling) – Several times a year the smelter facility is in operation to melt and recycle metals. The molten metal is then poured into molds forming shield blocks which are then utilized in the nuclear industry.
• Green is Clean (GIC) – The facility also has the capabilities for our Green is Clean evaluation, which allows for segregation of potentially radiologically contaminated metals to be found clean and released to a recycler for salvage value. Safe Check allows segregation of material that cannot be recycled, but is suitable for disposal in a State of Tennessee (TN) Subtitle-D landfill versus disposal at our licensed Class A disposal facility in Clive located in Utah’s West Desert.