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Washington Savannah River Company, formerly Westinghouse Savannah River Company, was a company contracted by DOE to manage the Savannah River Site (SRS) cleanup activities. These included providing environmental cleanup, nuclear waste collection and disposal, and remediation services. In 1999, Washington Group International acquires the government services business of Westinghouse, changing the Westinghouse Savannah River Company name to Washington Savannah River Company.
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions took over the Management and Operating of SRS in 2009.
The company was formerly known as Westinghouse Savannah River Company LLC, changing its name to Washington Savannah River Company, LLC in September 2005.
Company history with DOE
Contract
In 2008 the Department of Energy awarded the contract to manage and operate the Savannah River Site (SRS) to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions and a contract to manage the liquid waste at the Site to Savannah River Remediation. In 2009 Washington Savannah River Company, LLC's contract ended as the two new contractors took over operations.[1]
History of WSRC and DOE at Savannah River
Savannah River reached a turning point between 1987 and 1989. Within this three-year period, Du Pont announced its withdrawal from the plant, the last of the Savannah River reactors were shut down, and a new contractor, Westinghouse Electric, was selected to operate the plant. The next decade would begin on untried ground as Westinghouse began to establish an identity on site and in the larger community. The ending of the Cold War mandated changes in old missions and new directions for the forty-year-old production site with the primary emphasis on environmental management rather than production. The Department of Energy and Westinghouse Savannah River Company, unfamiliar partners, would be joined in pursuit of these new directions.[2]
When Westinghouse officially took over the plant on April 1, 1989, it moved quickly to establish a new identity for the production plant by changing the name from “Savannah River Plant” to “Savannah River Site.” While the name change reflected the presence of several “plants” within the site, it also suggested that the era of production, if not over, would have to make way for other missions — especially the cleanup effort that was required after almost four decades of nuclear materials production.[2]
The shift in the main mission at Savannah River from nuclear–materials production to site cleanup and remediation was partially a cause of some of the problems. The path from one to the other was not smooth, and for a number of years in the early 1990s, Westinghouse was required to do both simultaneously—and to more exacting safety standards. By 1991, the Savannah River work force had swelled to a peak of 25,800 persons, and the facility had an annual budget of $2.2 billion, twice what it had been two years earlier.
Company history
The company was founded in 1989 and is based in Aiken, South Carolina. The new firm assumed the operation of the Savannah River Site from DuPont who had built and run the plant from 1950. Washington Savannah River Company, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Westinghouse Government Services Company LLC.
It's parent company is Westinghouse Government Services Company LLC.
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References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedHistory - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Savannah River Site at Fifty: Stewardship and Legacy, from srs.gov. Retrieved Nov 5, 2013