IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials plan to meet this week with companies interested in a $1 billion contract to clean up radioactive waste at an eastern Idaho nuclear facility.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho Cleanup Project Core, known as ICP Core, is a five-year contract that also includes watching over spent nuclear fuel at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Events planned this week include an overview conference Monday in Idaho Falls and a site tour Tuesday at the 890-square-mile nuclear facility in eastern Idaho, the Post Register reported (https://bit.ly/10FYY0K ).
On Wednesday, one-on-one sessions between federal officials and potential contractors were scheduled.
Three other cleanup contracts worth far less will also advance in the coming months.
Now, two companies - CH2M-WG Idaho LLC and the Idaho Treatment Group - with contracts that expire Sept. 30, 2015, handle cleanup tasks.
CH2M-WG Idaho LLC has been working to clean up waste from nuclear energy research, World War II-era weapons testing and spent fuel processing. The work has included decontaminating and decommissioning three nuclear reactors.
Idaho Treatment Group in 2011 won a $417 million contract to finish cleaning up lower level transuranic waste.
The Department of Energy now plans to split cleanup duties four ways, with contracts of five to nine years.
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