Project: Decommissioning of Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

Location: Wiscasset, Maine

Services: Complete demolition of all building structures on site. Work includes demolition of the Turbine Building, Circulating Water Pump House, Service Building, Control Room, Fuel Oil Bunker, Auxiliary Boilers and Stack, Emergency Diesel Generator Building, Steam and Valve House, Spray Building, Primary Auxiliary Building, Reactor MCC Building, Containment Dome, Off Gas Stack, Fuel Building, RWST Tank, DWST Tank, SBTT Tank, High Radioactive Bunker, Yard Crane, Information Center, Staff Building and Warehouses.

Project Highlights: A specialty design High Reach Excavator was used in the preparation of the containment dome for demolition. Use of explosives to percussively soften concrete in the Turbine Pedestal and Containment Dome. Use of explosives to implode the Turbine Building and 360-ton Containment Polar Crane. Process and load millions of pounds of low level Radioactive Waste on to rail cars.