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A second legal challenge to the award of a $45 billion contract for environmental cleanup work at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has been denied.. U.S. Judge Marian Blank Horn ...
BWXT was awarded the environmental management contract for DOE’s Savannah River, S.C., site in 2021.. Fluor is best known at Hanford for being the site’s main cleanup contractor from 1996 to ...
The Department of Energy has awarded an environmental cleanup contract for the Hanford site worth up to $45 billion to a newly formed limited liability company based in Lynchburg, Va.
The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
The 10-year contract covers work at the Hanford site tank farms, where 56 million gallons of radioactive waste are stored in underground tanks, and operation of the vitrification plant to treat ...
The contractors now employ about 4,000 workers at the Eastern Washington nuclear reservation.
In May 2020, DOE awarded a 10 year, $13 billion contract to manage Hanford tank waste to a team headed by BWXT and Fluor with primary subcontractors Intera and DBD. It did not include the ...
The current contract covers about 8,000 Hanford site workers, but the new contract will be expanded to include workers operating the vitrification plant as it starts glassifying low activity ...