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Babcock & Wilcox on Wikipedia

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) is a U.S.-based company that provides design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and facilities management services to nuclear, renewable, fossil power, industrial and government customers worldwide. B&W's boilers supply more than 300,000 megawatts of installed capacity in over 90 countries around the world. A reactor from B&W was destroyed by a nuclear meltdown in the Three Mile Island accident. During World War II, over half of the US Navy fleet was powered by Babcock & Wilcox boilers.

The company has its headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. It has major operations in Lynchburg, Virginia; Barberton, Ohio; Euclid, Ohio; Lancaster, Ohio; West Point, Mississippi; Mount Vernon, Indiana; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Erwin, Tennessee; Amarillo, Texas; Cambridge, Ontario; Esbjerg, Denmark; and Straubing, Germany. B&W also has joint major joint venture companies in Beijing, China and Pune, India.[1]

B&W employs approximately 12,700 people, in addition to approximately 10,400 joint venture employees.[2]

The company was founded in 1867 by Stephen Wilcox and George Babcock as Babcock, Wilcox & Company to manufacture and market Wilcox’s patented water tube boiler. B&W’s list of innovations and firsts include the world’s first installed utility boiler (1881); manufacture of boilers to power New York City’s first subway (1902); first pulverized coal power plant (1918); design and manufacture of components for the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine (1953-55); the first supercritical pressure coal-fired boiler (1957); design and supply of reactors for the first U.S. built nuclear-powered surface ship, the NS Savannah (1961).[3]

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Babcock and Wilcox at DOE

BWXT Conversion Services LLC

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BWXT Conversion Services LLC (BWCS) is the project operating contractor for the DUF6 project to convert more than 800,000 metric tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) into depleted uranium oxide. The DUF6 project is overseen by the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) of the Office of Environmental Management.

It was formed specifically to bid on the DUF6 Project contract. It is a sole purpose company with corporate headquarters in Lexington, KY and plant operations in Paducah, KY and Portsmouth, OH. The 51 percent majority shareholder is Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group (B&WTSG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox. The minority shareholder is URS Energy and Construction, a wholly owned subsidiary of URS.

The Lexington headquarters is located close to the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) of the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management department, which oversees the contract.

BWXT Conversion Services, LLC was notified of the award of the contract on Dec. 8, 2010. Transition started on Jan. 3, 2011 and was completed March 29, 2011 (85 days later). The company took over operations of the Project on that day. The company currently employs approximately 400 people and has approximately 30 professionals as staff augmentation or support service contractors.

Both the Paducah and Portsmouth facilities are located on Department of Energy reservations close to the gaseous diffusion plants which enriched uranium starting in the mid-1950’s.

BWXT Technical Services Group

BWXT Technical Services Group, Inc. (BWXT TSG) manages complex, high-consequence nuclear and national security operations, including nuclear production facilities.

Headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia, BWXT TSG operates three distinct businesses: managing and operating large manufacturing or site closure contracts for the U.S. government, facilitating laboratory services and managing technical services.

Nuclear and high-consequence facility management capabilities include:

  • Design, engineering and construction of general plant infrastructure and high-hazard nuclear facilities
  • Management of multiple geographically dispersed sites, functions, and projects requiring interface operationally as part of a larger execution strategy
  • Management of operations that include manufacturing, assembly, refurbishment, dismantlement, processing hazardous material, control/storage and inventory, and disposition of nuclear material

Through involvement with U.S. Department of Energy environmental management projects, BWXT TSG is making significant contributions to a cleaner environment by removing legacy materials remaining at sites that previously housed high-consequence operations related to the production of nuclear weapons, primarily during the Cold War era.

BWXT Government Group, Inc.

BWXT Government Group, Inc. manufactures and supplies nuclear components and fuel. The company manages nuclear and national security operations. Its facilities offer heavy components, as well as nuclear components for Department of Energy programs. The company’s facility also supplies research reactor fuel elements for colleges, universities, and national laboratories. It also provides uranium targets used for medical isotopes, as well as converts or downblends uranium into low-enriched fuel for use in commercial reactors to generate electricity

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  1. ↑ http://pdf.secdatabase.com/917/0001193125-12-089188.pdf
  2. ↑ http://pdf.secdatabase.com/917/0001193125-12-089188.pdf
  3. ↑ Steam/its generation and use, 41st Edition
  4. ↑ Y-12 National Security Complex. (2010, August 10). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23:06, September 1, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Y-12_National_Security_Complex&oldid=378222030
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