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USEC awarded a $1 billion contract to Fluor for work on the enrichment company's Piketon, Ohio gas centrifuge plant, USEC said in a September 25 press statement. The contract, which runs from 2008 to 2012, is for engineering, procurement, construction and construction management services, USEC said. Under the contract, Fluor will be reimbursed for costs and will receive an additional fixed fee. Fluor also can earn an incentive fee based on cost savings it produces, USEC said.

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR) announced today that the Department of Energy (DOE) confirmed its January 2008 selection of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC, a Fluor-led team, as the winning bidder for the management and operating (M&O) contract at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. The estimated $4 billion contract is over a five-year period. Additionally, there are five, one-year renewal options bringing the potential total contract value to $8 billion. To date, no specific contract amounts have been booked into Fluor's backlog. Fluor expects to start booking earnings from the M&O contract into backlog in the third quarter of 2008.

A $1 billion job to build a uranium enrichment plant in Ohio is helping to swell Fluor Corp.'s work force in Greenville. Advertisement Fluor spokesman Brian Mershon said more than 250 of the company's employees in Greenville are working on the contract with USEC Inc. though he couldn't say how many of them are new hires. Fluor expects to have more than 300 Greenville employees working on the job next year, he said.

Fluor Hanford has fired three employees it believes are linked to the misuse of a federal government credit card issued for work at the Hanford nuclear reservation. A single card was used to make fraudulent purchases over at least the past four years, according to a memo sent by Fluor Hanford President Con Murphy to employees Wednesday. Just one person was allowed to sign on the card. The purchases included tools and electronic equipment, said Fluor spokeswoman Judy Connell.

Savannah River Site's new contractor, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, has recruited six new senior managers who are coming from positions within Fluor Daniel, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell and the U.S. Department of Energy. Rich Slocum, the new vice president of site infrastructure and project support services, previously served as vice president of closure services and infrastructure for Fluor Hanford in Richland, Wash.

A partnership that includes Fluor Corp. and Honeywell International officially becomes manager and operator of the Savannah River Site. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC says it takes over the Cold War-era nuclear weapons complex from Washington Savannah River Co. on Friday.

The Department of Energy has awarded the new Hanford contract covering cleanup of the central area of the nuclear reservation to CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. It is a limited liability company formed by CH2M Hill Constructors and includes Areva Federal Services, East Tennessee Materials & Energy Corp. and Fluor Federal Services as major subcontractors. The contract is worth $4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes a five-year base period and an option to extend it for five more years, according to DOE. It replaces a portion of an expiring contract now held by Fluor Hanford.

USEC Inc. ( said Thursday it had awarded a $1 billion contract to Fluor Corp. for the construction of USEC's American centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The contract will run until 2012. "This contract is expected to create approximately 1,000 new jobs, including 800 jobs at the Ohio site," said USEC Senior Vice President Philip Sewell. The plant will provide nuclear fuel for power plants

The award of Hanford's new $3 billion Mission Support Contract has been protested, the Department of Energy notified Hanford employees Monday evening. DOE expects the Government Accountability Office to take up to 100 days to resolve the protest. In the meantime, work to transition to the new support services contract cannot begin. The contract was awarded Sept. 3 to Mission Support Alliance, a team led by Lockheed Martin. Mission Support Alliance was told then that it would begin the transition from Fluor Hanford on Oct. 1 at the earliest and would assume full responsibility Jan. 1.

David Brockman's recent In Focus column lauding Fluor Hanford's 13-years' worth of accomplishments at the nuclear reservation was a puzzler. The praise heaped on the outgoing contractor by the Hanford operations manager was certainly justified. Indeed, Fluor's record -- as an environmental cleanup contractor and a generous corporate neighbor -- is commendable. But the list of accomplishments outlined in Brockman's column leads to an inescapable question.

Think your job has its share of headaches? Presiding over Savannah River Site's environmental and tritium programs was worth a $570,008 annual salary for one top executive-and he left after just two years. The figure was revealed in a government Web site that tracks American Recovery & Reinvestment Act spending and requires major recipients to divulge salaries of their top five officers. The federal database shows that Savannah River Nuclear Solutions-the primary management contractor for Savannah River Site-has been awarded $1,407,839,884 in stimulus dollars, in addition to its scheduled funding for regular operations at the site, for which the Fluor-led group received a five-year, $4 billion contract that took effect in 2008.

Think your job has its share of headaches? Presiding over Savannah River Site's environmental and tritium programs was worth a $570,008 annual salary for one top executive-and he left after just two years. The figure was revealed in a government Web site that tracks American Recovery & Reinvestment Act spending and requires major recipients to divulge salaries of their top five officers. The federal database shows that Savannah River Nuclear Solutions-the primary management contractor for Savannah River Site-has been awarded $1,407,839,884 in stimulus dollars, in addition to its scheduled funding for regular operations at the site, for which the Fluor-led group received a five-year, $4 billion contract that took effect in 2008.

A host of international firms are lining up to battle for a package of decommissioning works at Sellafield that could be worth as much as £1.5 billion. Balfour Beatty is understood to be bidding for the three-phase contract in a joint venture with Amec and French nuclear specialist Areva. Meanwhile, Costain is believed to have teamed up with US engineering giant Fluor to bid for the job, which will eventually see the construction of a highly active liquid effluent facility. Laing O'Rourke is also thought to be in a consortium with Jacobs, Nuvia and Doosan Babcock to tender for the work - valued at between £250 million and £1.5bn.

A host of international firms are lining up to battle for a package of decommissioning works at Sellafield that could be worth as much as £1.5 billion. Balfour Beatty is understood to be bidding for the three-phase contract in a joint venture with Amec and French nuclear specialist Areva. Meanwhile, Costain is believed to have teamed up with US engineering giant Fluor to bid for the job, which will eventually see the construction of a highly active liquid effluent facility. Laing O'Rourke is also thought to be in a consortium with Jacobs, Nuvia and Doosan Babcock to tender for the work - valued at between £250 million and £1.5bn.

The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest against the award of the $3 billion Mission Support Contract to a team led by Lockheed Martin. But the dismissal doesn't clear the way for Lockheed Martin to take over support services at Hanford now provided by outgoing contractor Fluor Hanford. Instead, the Department of Energy will address concerns raised by the GAO and a new decision will be made, according to the GAO. No timeline was given, but DOE released a statement Tuesday saying that it was "confident that the issues raised by the GAO can be addressed both thoroughly and expeditiously."

The state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a $4.8 million verdict in favor of 11 pipefitters who claimed they were fired for raising safety concerns at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The workers filed suit nine years ago against Fluor Federal Services of Richland, a contractor at the south-central Washington nuclear site. They claimed they were laid off after refusing orders to install a valve they believed was too weak for the job.

that once produced plutonium for our nation's atom bombs. That's how I spent my Labor Day weekend. Located just outside of Richland, in eastern Washington State, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation spans 586 square miles on high desert plains. The mighty Columbia River marks the site's eastern boundary where its waters once served as the depository for a few of the reactors' contaminated effluent. Belly-high barbwire fencing, with phallic smoke stacks positioned next to its aging boxy structures, surrounds Hanford's dry austere landscape. The aura of this rough terrain, taken from the Wanapum tribe only 66 years ago, is evocative to say the least. Hanford's 3-B Reactor. Photo by Chelsea Mosher At noon on this particular Saturday a group of us climbed onto a bus in Richland to tour Hanford's notorious B Reactor, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in August of 2008. Constructed by DuPont in just 11 months back in the early 1940s, B was the first full-scale plutonium production plant in the world. This summer the Department of Energy, along with the help of the Fluor Corporation, provided regular public tours of the reactor, hoping that one day the facility will be turned into a national museum of sorts.

The Department of Energy has given a team led by Lockheed Martin notice to proceed as the Hanford mission support contractor. The notice to proceed indicates that no protest will be filed on the contract award made late in April to the Lockheed team, Mission Support Alliance. The losing bidder for the contract, Computer Sciences Corp., or CSC, has reached an agreement with the Mission Support Alliance to become a major subcontractor on the team and will not protest the award. "We're still working the details out," said Joe Wagovich, spokesman for Lockheed Martin. The transition from outgoing contractor Fluor Hanford to Mission Support Alliance is expected to begin before the end of the month, although the start date has not been set. The transition will last 90 days and then Mission Support Alliance, led by Frank Figueroa, will take charge of support services at Hanford. Mission Support Alliance was first awarded the contract valued at $3 billion over 10 years in September, but CSC, which had teamed with Battelle, protested the award to the Government Accountability Office.

The Department of Energy has again awarded the Hanford Mission Support Contract worth about $3 billion to a team led by Lockheed Martin. "Good things can come to those who wait," Frank Figueroa, president and general manager of the winning team, said Tuesday. The transition from Fluor Hanford to the new team will begin sometime in May and will be completed within 90 days, said DOE. Lockheed Martin formed a limited liability company called Mission Support Alliance that included Lockheed Martin Integrated Technology, Jacobs Engineering Group and Wackenhut Services to bid on the contract. The contract award is for five years with a possible extension to 10 years. The Mission Support Contract covers sitewide services at the Hanford nuclear reservation such as security, fire protection, information technology, utilities, road services, pension administration and portfolio management, which includes integrating activities such as schedules and program performance across Hanford.