Ohio - lots going on there it seems. Piketon, IIRC, had centrifuges that wound up in Iran.
Piketon...uraniam enrichment facility. Talk about an entity that has eternal life!
In the mid 80s the company I worked for rented our 25 ton rough terrain crane to a sheetmetal contractor involved in one of the Piketon decommissioning phases. Gonna nail down 1985 for the year, and I helped boom down the crane onto the hauler’s equipment trailer I hired for the 80 mile trip to the site...a “permit” load as the crane was 57,000# so estimating total gross at pushing 90,000#. That would be 10K over legal max of 80,000#, plus the crane was 4” overwidth at 8’-10”. I think the rig driver was “on something” as he acted wired during loading. More proof of my assessment of his condition was his acting unphased when a lever-type chain binder flopped open when he was getting on it, and the handle whacked him square across a shin. Also our crane operator followed the rig down to the site and had a hard time keeping up in his Toyota pickup. You be the judge.
Anyway, when I turned estimator I looked at some bidding of remediation site work at Piketon in 2007. Yep, site still alive and probably still is. AFAIK that work we did there in the 80s may well have been associated with centrifuge dismantling. It was a good gig as our crane + operator were on site for a year and a half.
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