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Decommissioning Challenges

Each decommissioning project is unique, presenting its own set of challenges due to several factors:

n Facility, component, or equipment size and configuration.

n The type and extent of radiological contamination and/or activation.

n The nature and extent of hazardous contamination (e.g. asbestos, lead, PCBs, metals).

These challenges include:

n Selecting appropriate decommissioning alternatives

n Minimizing worker occupational radiation and hazardous contamination exposure (ALARA)

n Reducing the size of contaminated or activated components and utilities to facilitate removal and disposal

n Minimizing and/or eliminating secondary waste generation

n Maximizing packaging efficiencies of wastes removed for disposal through appropriate size reduction techniques

Decommissioning Capabilities

Siempelkamp Nuclear Services' Core Competencies:

u Mechanical Segmentation

u Decommissioning Operations

u Decommissioning Planning

Siempelkamp Nuclear Services provides complete turnkey nuclear decommissioning services, specializing in the areas of mechanical segmentation and decommissioning project planning. Siempelkamp Nuclear Services' broad base of experience and capabilities includes decommissioning, decontamination, and dismantlement of reactors, accelerators and cyclotrons, hot cells, laboratories, and facilities impacted by hazardous and radiological contamination. Siempelkamp Nuclear Services offers an extensive base of practical experience and expertise solving nuclear facilities "end of useful life" challenges. This demonstrated expertise aids Siempelkamp Nuclear Services' clients in the implementation of project-specific plans and procedures, ensures regulatory compliance, and results in cost and time savings. Siempelkamp Nuclear Services puts the customer first by recommending and providing the most appropriate and cost effective approach, specific to meeting the requirements of each assignment or project, in the commercial, government, and academic sectors.