Science Boy, you don't think it could be along these lines? I know this was for a different Isotope (U233) but the same would apply to recycled U235 which had actinides in it, it was also done at Oak Ridge?
Merrick was tasked to perform
detailed design of shielded facilities and for adapting processes for remote operability and maintainability.
http://www.industrycortex.com/datas...-laboratory-233-disposition-project-oak-ridge
But this one here is the one that made me sit up and take notice, if they were working on shielding at Oak Ridge for the above project (U233?), then I can't see why they wouldn't use some of the same thinking with this project below!
And it started in 2008 and was due to go through to 2013, when was the stuff from Oak Ridge moved to Wilmington?
http://www.merrick.com/merrickandco...pe-Production-Facilities-2014-lr.pdf?ext=.pdf
Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Equipment
Confidential Commercial
Design specialized equipment for handling uranium solutions.
Design~$100M.
2008-2013
Nuclear Client (see below)
Merrick is currently under contract to a Confidential Commercial Nuclear Client
as the prime contractor where
Merrick is responsible for engineering and design
services and managing the fabrication of Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Equipment
for a proposed $2B nuclear fuel manufacturing facility. The design services
include multiple phases of the project, with contract duration from 5 to 15 years;
Merrick’s contract is currently valued at $100M.
Merrick’s scope of work includes
providing design and engineering support
for all equipment and major portions of the new facilities design, including
managing the prototyping and fabrication of highly specialized and classified
equipment. Technical services include civil, mechanical, structural, EI&C,
and process engineering, architecture, and facilities engineering. Merrick
performs the work in an established classified work office in accordance with US
Nuclear Regulatory (NRC) security requirements. All work is being performed
in accordance with 10CFR70, Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material,
Quality Assurance Standard ANSI/ASME NQA-1, and nuclear industry design
codes and standards.
This link shows some of the stuff Merrick work on.
http://www.merrick.com/merrickandco...sc/soq501-nst-government-2014-lr.pdf?ext=.pdf
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