The United States Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Fluor with a three-year contract for the next phase cleanup at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP) in Paducah, Kentucky. Fluor is the prime contractor for the management, integration and execution of the deactivation and post-GDP shutdown remediation activities at the Paducah site. It is anticipated that the new contract will help reduce environmental risks, as well as create more local job opportunities. The estimated value of the contract is approximately USD $420 million over three years.
The DOE Paducah GDP is in Western Kentucky and located on a 3,423-acre federal reservation that was in the 1950’s as part of the nation’s nuclear weapons complex and enriched uranium from 1952 until 2013. Since 2013, limited cleanup activities have been in place.
Fluor’s scope of work for the contract will include the management, integration and execution of the deactivation and post-GDP shutdown remediation activities at the site with regards to cleaning up and remediating contaminated soils and groundwater.
“We are very pleased to be the preferred bidder on this project,” said Bruce Stanski, president of Fluor’s Government Group. “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 program safely and cost effectively.”