Aptim-Amentum JV Books $96M Army Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Contract

A joint venture led by Aptim and Amentum has received a potential six-year, $95.5 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Baltimore District to decommission and dismantle the SM-1A Reactor Facility at Fort Greely in Alaska.

The contract awarded to the Aptim-Amentum Alaska Decommissioning JV includes planning, site preparation, engineering, demolition and disposal of radioactive and hazardous materials, facilities and components, final status survey, site restoration and remediation of contaminated soils, Amentum said Thursday.

The A3D team also includes Heritage-M2C1 Joint Venture, Lynden Logistics, Brice Environmental, Oak Ridge Technologies, ReNuke Services, AECOM’s (NYSE: ACM) technical services business and Delta Junction Medical.

A3D will hold a kickoff meeting in late October at Fort Greely as it anticipates full mobilization by the middle of 2024 and project completion by 2029.

“Our recent experience performing reactor decommissioning at Fort Belvoir and major U.S. Department of Energy sites will aid in the completion of the work safely and effectively at Fort Greely,” said Jim Blankenhorn, senior vice president of environment and security at Amentum.

SM-1A was a 20.2 megawatt-thermal pressurized water reactor with an initial mission to supply power to Fort Greely. The reactor’s secondary mission was to look at the economics of running a nuclear power plant in a remote site. The facility was shut down in March 1972.

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