Fluor Fernald History at the Fernald Site
In 1991, the mission of the Fernald site changed from uranium metal
production to environmental remediation following the end of the Cold
War. To meet the new challenges and demands of remediating a former
nuclear weapons site, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded its
first environmental cleanup contract in August 1992 to the Fernald
Environmental Restoration Management Corp., later renamed Fluor
Fernald.
Fluor Fernald is part of Fluor Corp.,
a global engineering, construction and diversified services
corporation based in Aliso Viejo, California. The five-year, $2.2
billion cleanup contract included options for a three-year extension,
which DOE later exercised in 1997 for two years and in 1999 for
one year. Fluor Fernald is responsible for managing all site
remediation activities in compliance with applicable laws and
regulations, including cleanup of waste generated during production
and remediation, supervising engineering designs, technology
development, and disposition of the site’s nuclear materials inventory
(completed in 2002).
In November 2000, DOE awarded Fluor Fernald a final cleanup closure contract
valued at $2.4 billion with a target fee of $120 million. The closure
contract is effective December
2000 through December 2010; however, DOE included incentives for Fluor
Fernald to accelerate cleanup without compromising safety. In 2001,
DOE and Fluor Fernald developed a 2006 closure execution plan to
complete site cleanup three years earlier than projected by focusing
resources on critical path and high risk projects. Fernald’s
2006-closure vision is to remove, treat and safely dispose of all
contaminated sources and contain groundwater contamination, with
long-term treatment and monitoring in place.
The Fluor Fernald closure management team combines the resources of
Fluor Corp. with those of Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., Nuclear Fuel
Services, and Duratek Federal Services (formerly Waste Management
Federal Services). Fluor Corp. has consistently been ranked among the
safest construction contractors in the United States, and has placed
its highest priority on the health and safety of both its workforce
and the public.
For more information about Fluor Fernald,
please call Public Affairs Director, Jeff Wagner, 513-484-2348, or
send an e-mail message to:
jeffrey.wagner@fluor.com.
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