U.S. Department of Energy

Working as part of a team lead by Babcock & Wilcox, Jacobs provides a full range of architectural and engineering design services, including process systems and specialty mechanical equipment design, for the nonreactor nuclear Uranium Processing Facility project at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN. The facility will be a large multistoried structure that will include processing, operations, and office space and will replace several older facilities. Facility design and construction value, including equipment, is valued at up to $2.4B. – hide

Jacobs provides engineering and design (E&D) support and architecture and engineering (A&E) services on a multitude of assignments covering a wide variety of technical support, engineering, design, and construction activities for the DOE at locations across the U.S. Services provided to date include stand-alone detailed design assignments, staff augmentation, and independent review of designs. Representative projects include the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project in Moab, UT; the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN; a range of projects for the DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation; the Environmental Management Waste Management Facility (EMWMF) Underdrain Design; the Portsmouth, OH Gaseous Diffusion Plant Materials Handling Evaluation & Detailed Design; the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE); the Landfill VII Expansion; the Peer Review of Big Spring Water Treatment System 90 Percent Design; and the TRU/Alpha Waste Final Design Review I&C Package, Electrical Utility Drawings, and Power Plans among others. – hide

Jacobs provides management and operations support to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) NIF – the DOE’s facility for ensuring the nation’s nuclear weapons remain safe, secure, and reliable. On this contract, we support research of high energy, pulsed laser systems for fusion, basic science, national security, and economic development. Specifically, Jacobs’ broad scope of services include operations, facility management, construction management, planning and scheduling, commissioning, and engineering. – hide

On this $4B program, Jacobs, as a principal partner with Fluor Corporation, provided environmental restoration, waste management, site operations, project management, quality assurance, regulatory strategy and compliance, health and safety, construction management, environmental studies, project configuration and control, and information systems management for the DOE’s Closure Project in Fernald, OH. The Closure Project involved decommissioning of radionuclide contaminated production facilities; demolition and removal of structures; excavation and removal of contaminated soil, tanks, and stored wastes; the design, construction, and operation of an on-site radioactive waste disposal facility; and the treatment/loading/shipping of radioactive waste to off-site locations. – hide

Jacobs provides a broad range of site services and infrastructure support for the DOE’s Hanford Site located in Richland, WA. The Hanford site is home to nine nuclear reactors and associated plutonium production facilities. MSC is the last of three major contracts for environmental cleanup at Hanford. Jacobs and the other members of the Mission Support Alliance (MSA), LLC, lead by Lockheed Martin, provide a number of mission support services including safety, security and environment, site infrastructure and utilities, site business management, information resources/content management, and portfolio management. – hide

On this person contract, Jacobs provides environmental restoration, waste management, nuclear materials management, and facility stabilization for the DOE. As a partner in the Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC, Jacobs has been responsible for accelerated cleanup at several DOE sites, including Oak Ridge, TN; Portsmouth, OH; and Paducah, KY, and has subcontracted more than $1B in cleanup work under this program. This contract demonstrates our ability to manage and perform large and complex decommissioning and closure tasks and includes all elements of the DOE environmental management program, including decontamination and demolition; legacy waste disposition; cylinder management; spent fuel disposition; and design, construction, and operations of an on-site waste disposal cell. – hide

On this effort, Jacobs as a partner with the University of Chicago, supports the DOE at the Argonne National Laboratory – one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s largest research centers and the nation's first national laboratory, chartered in 1946. Specifically, Jacobs provides management in business and facility operations of the laboratory. The laboratory has 2,900 employees, including approximately 1,000 scientists and engineers, 75% of whom hold doctorate degrees. Argonne’s supports more than 200 ongoing research projects, ranging from advanced studies of the atomic nucleus to global climate change research and development of fuel-efficient vehicle propulsion systems. – hide

Jacobs personnel provided site-wide support services to Kaiser Hill at the 6,500 acre RFETS near Denver, CO. On this Facility Maintenance and Management (FM&M) contract, the scope of work included utilities operations, property management and disposition, logistics, site-wide systems maintenance, and project management and construction. We were also responsible for decommissioning 27 contaminated facilities at the former plutonium processing plants and deactivating 5 major building groups. During the course of this contract, we also provided asset management, institutional services, investigations, waste management, remediation, and engineering services. – hide

On this contract, Jacobs – along with three other contractors comprising West Valley Environmental Services – conducts extensive cleanup of West Valley’s former nuclear fuel reprocessing center near Buffalo, NY. Our specific responsibilities include solidifying high-level waste, disposing of waste created by the solidification, and decommissioning the facilities used in the process. We support the West Valley Demonstration Project through decontamination of the Main Plant Process Building, Remote-Handled Waste Facility, and the Vitrification Facility; process and shipment of low-level and transuranic waste; safe storage of high-level waste canisters; and deactivation, decontamination, and removal of additional facilities. – hide