VENDOR'S FORUM FOR TRANSPORTAION OF TPBARS The Department of Energy is conducting a vendor's forum in order to obtain information in support of an upcoming procurement for transportation of Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rods (TPBARs). The forum is scheduled for February 17, 2000, 9:00 a.m. at the Comfort Inn Hotel, 433 South Rutgers Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN. The purpose of the forum is for the vendors to exchange information with the Government representatives. The forum will include both group and individual discussions relative to development of a solicitation. The U. S. Department of Energy's Office of Commercial Light Water Reactor (CLWR) Production was established by the Secretary of Energy in November 1995. In December 1998 the CLWR was chosen to be the technology for the production of tritium for the U. S. nuclear weapons stockpile. This technology involves the irradiation of TPBARs in commercial power reactors. The commercial power reactors to be used for production of tritium will be the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Watts Bar Nuclear and Sequoyah Nuclear plants. Transportation services are required to ship the irradiated TPBARs from the TVA facilities to the Tritium Extraction Facility located on the Savannah River Site. WEB: click here for more information, http://www.oakridge.doe.gov/procurement/DE_RP05_00OR22792. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, jacksonbj@oro.doe.gov. Posted 01/21/00 (W-SN417428).

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