Fluor Corporation has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for the next phase of cleanup at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP) in Paducah, Kentucky.

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Fluor Corporation has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for the next phase of cleanup at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP) in Paducah, Kentucky.

Under the contract, Fluor will be the prime contractor responsible for ‘management, integration and execution’ of the deactivation and remediation activities at the site of the uranium enrichment plant, which operated between 1953 and 2013. It will also be responsible for cleaning up and remediating contaminated soils and groundwater at the 3423-acre federal reservation.

The contract is estimated to be worth around approximately $420 million over three years, according to Fluor, a global engineering and construction firm which has a long history performing challenging projects within the DOE environmental community.

"By leveraging the gaseous diffusion plant experience we’ve gained at Portsmouth and Fluor’s decades of experience managing and operating nuclear decommissioning sites, we look forward to working with the Department of Energy to deliver the site’s programme safely and cost effectively," said Bruce Stanski, president of Fluor’s Government Group.

Fluor currently serves as the prime contractor for the decontamination and decommissioning of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, and is also a managing partners on the operating contract for Savannah River. Fluor has also worked at the Hanford Site in Washington State since 1996.


Photo: Paducah site in Kentucky