LATEST NEWS J. KENT FORTENBERRY NAMED CHIEF ENGINEER Lexington KY (May 1, 2012) --  “I’m delighted to announce that J. Kent Fortenberry is joining the Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services team as Chief Engineer,” said George Dials,  BWCS president and project manager.  READ MORE Michelle Reichert named deputy manager Lexington, KY (March 22, 2012) – George E. Dials, president and project manager of B&W Conversion Services, announces that Michelle M. Reichert has been named Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services Deputy Project Manager.   Reichert will assume accountability for the DUF6 Project and related activities in Dials’ absence.   READ MORE GEORGE DIALS EARNS TOP NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT AWARD Lexington KY (March 5, 2012) -- Babcock and Wilcox Conversion Services is proud to announce that George E. Dials, president, has honored with the annual Wendell D. Weart Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Waste Management Symposium.    READ MORE

B&W CONVERSION SERVICES

Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Service LLC (BWCS) is the project management and plant operating contractor for the DUF6 Project to convert more than 700,000 metric tons of DUF6 (depleted uranium hexafluoride) into depleted uranium oxide, a more stable chemical form that can be reused, stored, or disposed of.

The DUF6 Project is overseen by the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM).

The DUF6 is a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process conducted at U.S. gaseous diffusion enrichment plants in Paducah, KY, Portsmouth, OH, and Oak Ridge, TN. It is temporarily stored in a total of about 63,000 steel cylinders at the Paducah, KY and Piketon, OH conversion plants. In its present chemical form, it is chemically corrosive; the Department of Energy intends to convert the material for reuse, storage or disposal.  A byproduct of the conversion process is Hydrofluoric Acid (HF), which can be reused industrially.

BWCS was formed by Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group and URS Energy and Construction and won the five-year $428 million operating contract in late 2010. After a successful 85-day transition,  BWCS assumed the management and operating contract for the newly-constructed DUF6 plants at Paducah and Piketon on March 29, 2011.