DeNuke Services has hired Rich Krett, PG as the Vice President, Los Alamos Operations. Mr. Krett reports to John Coffman, CHP, President, and will oversee the on-going DeNuke projects in support of Portage’s MDAB, Ancho Canyon and TA-21 projects, and the recently placed MTOA for Environmental, Safety, Health & Quality support to LANS. “DeNuke has been on the hill for a few years now, and based on the need of our growing small business, we now have a senior manager, with excellent credentials, to manage the growth of our operations. Having worked with Rich in this business in the past, I know he will serve our customers in northern New Mexico well.” said John Coffman, President DeNuke.
Mr. Krett, a Certified Professional Geologist, has held leadership positions in project management, environmental compliance, regulatory affairs, safety basis analysis, and was most recently the general manager of Terradigm’s Albuquerque office. With experience supporting DOE EM projects since 1990, Mr. Krett has a diverse background in management of remediation, D&D and waste management programs and projects. Rich Krett commented, “This is a great opportunity for me to develop a growing small business in my home state in an area that I’m very comfortable with. We anticipate creation of a substantial number of new job opportunities for the people in northern New Mexico.” Mr. Coffman and Mr. Krett worked together in Albuquerque, building the EM program, and providing support to Sandia, LANL and NNSA.
In Los Alamos, Mr. Krett will manage the DeNuke ER/WM staff, and lead Environmental Engineering, Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Health Physics, Waste Management and Quality support across all the LANS ERWM programs.
DeNuke is a small business, specializing in nuclear staffing and projects in both DOE EM and commercial nuclear power sectors. With over 130 employees, DeNuke operates in 24 states, and currently holds seven contracts involving ARRA funded EM work. DeNuke has worked in Los Alamos since 2006.
For more information contact: John Coffman, President 865-220-0046 x22 – .
DeNuke has been awarded a task order subcontract to CHPRC for heath physics support to the Plateau Remediation effort at the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington. As a subcontractor to CHPRC, DeNuke will initially provide a cadre of health physics technicians.
“We expect to be providing a significant number of new jobs in the Hanford area, and with high demand for health physics technicians, we are prepared pay our employees a fair and reasonable wage and benefit package to ensure we deliver fully trained and qualified technicians at highly competitive rates.” Said John Coffman, DeNuke’s President . “It’s incumbent upon us to deliver the highest caliber of people to ensure the success of the CHPRC mission.”
DeNuke will coordinate the administration of and provide fully qualified individuals to perform as Contracted Radiological Control Technicians (CRCTs) to augment the current cadre of Radiological Control Technicians employed at the Hanford Site.
Tradewind, a SDVSB headquartered in Richland, WA will support the project as a DeNuke subcontractor. “We are prepared to support the DeNuke subcontract with local knowledge of the workforce and a dedication to safety, quality and mission success, “said Jeff Hertzel, President of Tradewind.
DeNuke, founded in 2002, is a small business providing services to commercial and government nuclear clients throughout the US. With 135 employees operating in 15 states, DeNuke, and its commercial division, ReNuke, has supported some of the toughest cleanup projects in the US.
The Hanford Plateau Remediation Contract (PRC) will advance the cleanup of the central portion of the Hanford Site, known as the 200 Area or the Central Plateau, which once housed five chemical separations buildings and other facilities that separated and recovered plutonium and other materials for use in nuclear weapons. The scope of the PRC contract includes completion of the Plutonium Finishing Plant project; characterization of facilities and waste sites; disposal activities related to non-tank farm waste; environmental surveillance and maintenance; groundwater monitoring and remediation; environmental remediation; and development of documents for regulatory and other decisions covering groundwater, soil, and facilities.
“I am pleased to announce today that Paul Adams has joined DeNuke as our Contract Services Manager.” said John Coffman, President. “Paul has been instrumental in the growth of excellent firms in the nuclear and staffing areas and will make a substantial contribution to serving our new clients at ORNL and SRS, where he has substantial experience and relationships.” Mr. Adams is a graduate of Florida State University, where he completed his BS degree in Economics and International Affairs. He is a veteran, having served in Operation Deny Flight as a crew chief for an amphibious assault crew in the US Marine Corps. As a recruiter, Mr. Adams has worked in healthcare, IT, and nuclear fields. At ORNL, Mr. Adams led recruiting teams responsible for the Spallation Neutron Source and the National Security Directorate and has experience managing Staff Augmentation contracts and Recruitment operations. He most recently held positions at Navarro in Oak Ridge and at SRNS in Aiken, SC.
“We will continue to seek out the best and brightest in the nuclear staffing area to ensure we always serve our clients, employees and suppliers in a manner that exceeds their expectations.” said Fred Gardner, Founder.
DeNuke Contracting Services Inc. is a small business with over 215 employees operating in 24 states, headquartered in Oak Ridge, TN providing nuclear staffing and project services to the Department of Energy and the commercial nuclear industry since 2002. See www.denuke.com.
For further information contact: John Coffman, President
DeNuke, a small, Oak Ridge based nuclear staffing and project services company, has received a subcontract to support UT Battelle at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory with acceleration of cleanup activities funded by ARRA. DeNuke will provide RadCon Technicians under a competitively bid fixed unit price subcontract. The subcontract covers ARRA project support services though October, 2012.
“We founded our company on our Oak Ridge base, and since 1996, we’ve been a safe, solid provider of high quality technical safety staff to our Oak Ridge clients. We’re pleased to have UT Battelle-ORNL as a repeat client, adding Rad Con services to our existing ERWM support services.” said Fred Gardner, Founder.
DeNuke currently provides heath physics support , funded by the ARRA, to B&W Y-12, Los Alamos National Lab, Portage, Inc. at the Los Alamos MDA-B Project, Argonne National Laboratory, the Accelerated Remediation Company at Mound OU-1 and SPRU (in Niskayuna, NY) and Paducah Remediation Company at Paducah, Kentucky.
DeNuke provides nuclear project staffing and technical support to DOE and commercial nuclear power clients. With over 215 employees, DeNuke is known for nimble responsiveness, and maintaining equitable relationships with employees, clients and suppliers.
The DeNuke motto is “Safely…Correctly…Once.”
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DeNuke has been awarded a one year Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with two, one year options for Waste Management Support in Lemont, Illinois at the Argonne National Laboratory, operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC. “This new contract is a result of the fine waste management work products the DeNuke staff have been providing ANL since 2008,” said Fred Gardner, Founder. “We are particularly aware that ANL’s receipt of ARRA funding will require new control processes and procedures, additional technical staff and a focus on safety to address the accelerated removal of very challenging legacy wastes from ANL. We’re proud of our expertise to meet these mission requirements.”
DeNuke is a diverse, Oak Ridge based, small business providing nuclear services and staffing with over 155 employees in 15 states. “With half our business in DOE radiation protection, safety, remediation and waste management projects and half in commercial nuclear power maintenance and new reactor construction projects we are well positioned to weather the current economic crisis. The benefit of our diversity is that we can tap into personnel resources across the country to support our clients with high quality people,” said John Coffman, President. DeNuke has extensive experience in providing professional, management, and technical waste management staffing and support services at multiple DOE facilities throughout the U.S., including active subcontracts for technical staffing support at ANL, INL, LANL, PDGP, PORTS, Y-12, SPRU, Hanford, ORNL , and Mound OU-1.
Argonne National Laboratory conducts research in basic science, energy resources, and environmental management. The organization pursues research and development programs in nuclear waste management, spent fuel management, reactor systems, plant life extension, nuclear non-proliferation, isotope production, nuclear regulatory support, space nuclear applications, next generation nuclear plant concepts, and industrial support programs. Argonne National Laboratory became the first national laboratory in 1946, and is based in DuPage County, Illinois, about 25 miles southwest of Chicago. Argonne National Laboratory is operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy.
For more information contact: Fred Gardner, Senior Vice President at .
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), operated by University of Chicago, LLC, has awarded DeNuke a competitively bid Basic Ordering Agreement for health physics support over the next year, with three one year options. The objective of the statement of work is to support ANL in carrying out specific work projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. DeNuke will provide DOE Core Qualified Radiation Control Technicians (RCTs), RCT supervisors, and Health Physicists who will perform radiological safety monitoring, documentation, and related services for the duration of those ARRA funded projects.
“A few years ago, we made a strategic commitment to develop our health physics business to support DOE’s Office of Science and Environmental Management programs,” said Fred Gardner, CHP, DeNuke founder. “The foreseeable future will be filled with tremendous personnel staffing challenges as the nationwide DOE ARRA projects become fully developed. We’re pretty excited about expanding our support to ANL.” DeNuke currently provides support to the waste management division at ANL, developing planning and procedures for RH TRU waste disposition.
DeNuke is an Oak Ridge-based small business with over 130 employees in 15 states. We are a diverse nuclear services and staffing company with half our business in DOE radiation protection, safety, remediation and waste management projects and half in commercial nuclear power maintenance and new reactor construction projects. DeNuke has extensive experience in providing professional, management, and technical radiation protection staffing support services at multiple DOE facilities throughout the U.S., including active subcontracts for technical staffing support at ANL, INL, LANL, PDGP, PORTS, Y-12, SPRU, and Mound OU-1.
For information contact: Fred Gardner, Senior Vice President at .
UT Battelle, LLC has awarded DeNuke Services a Blanket Ordering Agreement (BOA) for Environmental Compliance and Waste Management Support. The BOA is designed to provide UTB expertise and resources that will support the entire spectrum of ER/WM activities at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). “During the term of this agreement at ORNL, we expect to support UTB in the planning, development, oversight and safe completion of new and ongoing operational and mission-related activities of the ORNL,” said John Coffman , President of DeNuke. These services will augment UTB staff in performing required environmental and waste service activities throughout the ORNL campus.
DeNuke is an Oak Ridge based Tennessee small business with over 130 employees and currently holds several subcontracts for EM support services in five states, supporting DOE’s high priority EM cleanup projects in the areas of radiation protection, waste management, compliance, industrial and occupational safety and waste shipping. DeNuke’s teaming partners on this contract include: Portage, Inc., DR&C, Inc. and Spectra Tech, Inc. Portage is a small Idaho-based business, who has developed capabilities in the full spectrum of remediation, D&D and waste operations activities over the last 15 years. DeNuke is currently working with Portage at Paducah, Mound OU-1, SPRU Remediation and Los Alamos MDA-B and Waste Disposition Projects. DR&C is a small minority/woman-owned Oak Ridge business with experience in waste management, QA and safety program management and field implementation. Spectra Tech is a small 8(a) Oak Ridge based engineering and consulting company specializing in ER/WM programs across DOE. Spectra Tech and DeNuke were recently awarded a contract for support to the DOE EM Consolidated Business Center.
For information contact: Fred Gardner, Senior Vice President at .
DeNuke Services and teaming partner, Spectra Tech, have been awarded a competitively competed DOE prime contract with the EMCBC in Cincinnati, Ohio, to support DOE EM procurement activities across the complex. The EMCBC is managing the procurement of a host of EM activities including Paducah Remediation and Infrastructure, Portsmouth D&D, DUF6 project, and the ID/IQ ordering agreements. DeNuke has been associated with these EM programs since 2002, providing procurement, health and safety, waste management and staff augmentation services to DOE prime contractors.
“While we may not participate in all of the upcoming task orders, we have a large cadre of experienced procurement specialists, cost estimators and technical reviewers to provide the EMCBC the highest caliber of support,” said John Coffman, DeNuke President.
DeNuke is a small business providing DOE and commercial nuclear power project management, engineering and technical staff. Since 2002, DeNuke and its commercial group, ReNuke, have grown to over 130 people operating in 14 states. Recent ARRA activity has DeNuke creating new jobs in seven states. “Although we have not seen much yet, the ARRA funding may put an added strain on procurement resources, so we’re getting ready.” said Fred Gardner, Founder.
“We are pleased that our team has been selected by DOE for this important award. We will manage our resources and work closely to ensure that we are responsive to DOE and that high quality work is performed,” stated Spectra Tech President, Loong Yong, PhD.
For information contact: John Coffman CHP, President at 865-220-0046 x22 or .
The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), has placed one of two Master Task Ordering Agreements (MTOA) for ESH&Q support with DeNuke Services. The MTOA ESH&Q scope of work covers professional and technician support for IH, Health & Safety, Health Physics, Radiological Controls, Sampling, Environmental, QA, Sampling and Administrative and Project Management services. Under the three year base term plus two option years, LANS can place task orders under the fixed unit rate/ fixed price contract.
John Coffman CHP, President said, “I received Health Physics training at Los Alamos in graduate school. Since then I’ve seen the Lab’s growth in environmental management and the increased levels of security. DeNuke has been a part of the community for years, and now we’re thrilled to be able to offer new jobs to the Northern New Mexico community.”
“This MTOA will allow LANS to tap into DeNuke’s resources on short notice. We’ve been anticipating an increase in Waste Disposition and ER activities at LANL for some time. We’re ready to help.”- said Fred Gardner CHP, Founder.” We do not know what the level of activity will be, since the ARRA funding has not been finalized at LANL. To respond to the increased level of work in Northern New Mexico, DeNuke is pleased to have appointed Rich Krett, PG, as Vice President. Mr. Krett will manage all aspects of the existing and planned DeNuke projects “on the hill.”
“DeNuke knows Los Alamos well. I’m looking forward to helping LANS oversee the dozens of subcontractors and projects underway and in the startup phase.” said Rich Krett PG, Vice President.
DeNuke Services, and their commercial division, ReNuke, provides over 130 people to the DOE EM and nuclear power segments. Since 2002, DeNuke has been known to treat their clients, employees and suppliers with fairness and provides timely, high quality services at fair prices.
For information contact: John Coffman CHP, President 865-220-0046 x22 or by email at jcoffman@denuke.com.
DROWNING DOESN’T LOOK LIKE DROWNING
The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the owners who were swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine, what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!” he barked as he sprinted between the stunned owners. Directly behind them, not ten feet away, their nine-year-old daughter was drowning. Safely above the surface in the arms of the captain, she burst into tears, “Daddy!”
How did this captain know, from fifty feet away, what the father couldn’t recognize from just ten? Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television. If you spend time on or near the water (hint: that’s all of us) then you should make sure that you and your crew knows what to look for whenever people enter the water. Until she cried a tearful, “Daddy,” she hadn’t made a sound. As a former Coast Guard rescue swimmer, I wasn’t surprised at all by this story. Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life.
The Instinctive Drowning Response – so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the number two cause of accidental death in children, age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents) – of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening (source: CDC). Drowning does not look like drowning – Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene Magazine, described the instinctive drowning response like this:
1. Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled, before speech occurs.
2. Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
3. Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water, permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
4. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
5. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.
This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble – they are experience aquatic distress. Not always present before the instinctive drowning response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long – but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are n the water:
·Head low in the water, mouth at water level
·Head tilted back with mouth open
·Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
·Eyes closed
·Hair over forehead or eyes
·Not using legs – Vertical
·Hyperventilating or gasping
·Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
·Trying to roll over on the back
·Ladder climb, rarely out of the water.
So if a crew member falls overboard and every looks O.K. – don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them: “Are you alright?” If they can answer at all – they probably are. If they return a blank stare – you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents: children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
