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INL's Current Prime Contractor:
Battelle Energy Alliance
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Link to Letter from Governor Kempthorne and Idaho's congressional delegation welcoming Battelle Energy
Alliance as the new contractor for the Idaho National Laboratory.
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Energy Alliance (BEA) is the seventh and current prime contractor
for the INEEL. BEA 's contract began on February 1, 2005, and continues
until 2015. Members of the alliance include organizations with a
long history of research and operations experience:
- Battelle
- BWX Technologies, Inc.
- Washington Group International
- Electric Power Research Institute
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with
supporting roles for Boise State University, Idaho State University,
and the University of Idaho
Here's
a primer on this team: |
| Battelle |
| History
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Started
in 1929 as the Battelle Memorial Institute, with a focus on
"creative and research work and the making of discoveries
and inventions." |
| Notable
achievements |
Conducted
research that helped pave the way to today's office copiers,
compact discs, bar code technologies, and electronic commerce.
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| Current
works |
Has
more than 16,000 employees and conducts $3 billion in research
yearly. Manages the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland,
Washington; Brookhaven National Laboratory (through Brookhaven
Science Associates, LLC); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (through
UT-Battelle, LLC); and co-manages the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory. |
| Web
site |
http://www.battelle.org
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| BWXT |
| History
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Started
by providing marine boilers for ships during WWII, but participation
in the Manhattan Project started the company's involvement
in nuclear technologies. |
| Notable
achievements |
Designed/manufactured
components for the first nuclear submarine (U.S.S. Nautilus),
designed reactor, performed design work on the INL Advanced
Test Reactor (ATR). |
| Current
works |
BWXT
manages the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
and the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. |
| Web
site |
http://www.bwxt.com
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| Washington
Group International |
| History
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Formerly
Morrison-Knudsen, Washington Group International has a long
history with large-scale construction projects, dating back
to 1900. |
| Notable
achievements |
Hoover
Dam, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
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| Current
works |
Destruction
of weapons of mass destruction in former Soviet Union countries,
destruction of chemical weapons in the U.S., rebuilding projects
in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
| Web
site |
http://www.wgint.com
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| Electric
Power Research Institute |
| History
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Established
in 1973 to manage collaborative research for the U.S. electricity
industry. |
| Notable
achievements |
More
than 900 patents involving power generation, environmental
protection, power delivery. |
| Current
works |
Infrastructure
Security Initiative project to pinpoint vulnerabilities in
the electric power infrastructure, and Sustainable Integrated
Public Services project to design/build an advanced mixed-use
community. |
| Web
site |
http://www.epri.com
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| Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
| History
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Founded
in 1961 by William Barton Rogers, who envisioned a "teaching
laboratory." |
| Notable
achievements |
Forty-seven
alumni, faculty, researchers and staff have won Nobel Prizes.
Notable achievements of faculty and graduates include first
chemical synthesis of penicillin, development of inertial
guidance systems, and magnetic core memory for digital computers.
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| Current
works |
Current
research includes environment and sustainable development
and information sciences and technology. MIT's nuclear engineering
program was ranked first in a recent listing of America's
best colleges. |
| Web
site |
http://web.mit.edu
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