Duratek Helps Build for Home for Disadvantaged Family

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As part of the Parsons team, Duratek and its fellow team members involved in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) Project—including Parsons, General Atomics, and Parallax—are providing financial and people resources to the Aiken County, South Carolina, Habitat for Humanity. Together, we have committed $45,000 to build Habitat House Number 55. Teams of Duratek staff from the towns of Aiken, Barnwell, and Columbia, South Carolina, are volunteering each Saturday through mid-December to help build the house. We are working on an accelerated schedule for this house, in the hopes of getting the family settled in before Christmas.
Duratek worked on a Habitat House in 2004, and it was both fun and rewarding. For the current build, the organizing board solicited volunteers and donations both from employees and the local community, and coordinated teams of
volunteers.
The SWPF Project, located on the DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina, is a pre-treatment plant to remove cesium from DOE’s inventory of 38 million gallons of highly radioactive waste stored in 49 tanks at the SRS. Additional processing through a high-level vitrification facility and a chemical stabilization facility, which already exist at the Savannah River Site, will be the final stabilization for the treated waste.
As a team subcontractor to Parsons, Duratek is providing operations and commissioning input through the SWPF design and construction phases, and will assume primary responsibility for startup and operation of the new facility.

Vol.1 No.3
Fall 2005
(past issues)