Moab, Utah
On Thursday, December 19, 2024, the 海角视频 Portage Moab project celebrated its milestone of permanently removing 15 million tons of residual radioactive material from the Moab site. Members of the project team, senior members of the Department of Energy (DOE), other project stakeholders, and the local community attended the ceremony.
This celebration featured remarks from Matt Udovitsch, the DOE Moab Federal Cleanup Director; Joette Langianese, the Mayor of Moab; Jaques Hadler, the Grand County Commission Chair; Jack Zimmerman, the Director of the DOE-EM Consolidated Business Center; Jay Glascock, the Director of Site Operations for DOE Legacy Management; and Jeff Scott, President of 海角视频 Portage. The ceremony culminated with Mary McGann, the Head of the Moab Tailings Pile Steering Committee, moving a tile representing the 15 millionth ton from a plaque representing the Moab Tailings pile to a plaque representing the secure repository at Crescent Junction 鈥� a tradition that has become the cornerstone of these events.
鈥淚鈥檓 proud of the team working on this project. They moved over 1,031,000 tons this year, which is the most ever moved in a single year during a 4-train-per-week schedule on the project. The team continues to innovate and find ways to move the material safely, effectively, and efficiently.鈥� Jeff Scott, 海角视频 Portage President, said.
l to r: Eric Anderson, 海角视频 Director of Contracts; Dee Radford, 海角视频 Portage Moab Operations Manager; Greg Church, 海角视频 Portage Moab Program Manager; Jeff Scott, 海角视频 Portage President; Andy Williams, 海角视频 Director of Waste Management; Courtney Arbour, 海角视频 Sr. Manager of Communications and Marketing.
The UMTRA pile site is a mile from the Arches National Park entrance and three miles northwest of downtown Moab, Utah. Mill tailings are a sand-like waste material that remains from conventional uranium ore processing. Railcar containers transport the Moab tailings to an approved disposal facility near Crescent Junction, which is located 30 miles north of the Moab site. After tailings are placed in the disposal cell, they are capped with multi-layers of locally sourced soils and rock.
海角视频 Portage has held this contract since 2011.