Geiger Brothers Mechanical Contractors

Press Release
May 19, 2006

Geiger Brothers doing HVAC for DUF6 Conversion Building

Geiger Brothers Mechanical Contractors has been awarded the prime contract to supply and install the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facility being built near Piketon, Ohio.

This facility and another at Paducah, Kentucky, are being built and will be operated by Uranium Disposition Services, LLC (UDS) for the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE). The facilities are located on the sites of existing uranium enrichment plants.

Founded in 1909 and with headquarters in Jackson, Ohio, Geiger Brothers has provided plumbing, HVAC, process piping construction and engineering services for nearly a century to industrial, institutional, and commercial customers in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

This is the eighth contract UDS has awarded to Geiger Brothers. Others at Piketon have been for underground piping, temporary office installation and then electrical supply, cylinder yard fencing, the site warehouse building and systems, and the conversion building foundations.

In a project soon to be under way, Geiger Brothers will fabricate and supply all welded large bore process piping for the Piketon and Paducah sites. Geiger Brothers has contracted with local Jackson supplier Iron City Pipe & Supply to provide the monel, high temperature stainless and carbon steel piping materials.

UDS is under contract to DOE to process the DUF6 stored at Paducah, Piketon, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. DUF6 is a byproduct of the enrichment process that made natural uranium suitable for use as fuel for nuclear reactors. The primary objectives of the UDS conversion project are to design, construct, and operate facilities at Portsmouth and Paducah to convert the DOE inventory of DUF6 to a stable chemical form acceptable for beneficial use, reuse or disposal.

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