Fluor Hanford began its work for the U.S. Department of Energy in 1996, when it was awarded a contract for managing the majority of the cleanup work at the Hanford Site in southeast Washington State, as well as the site’s infrastructure. Fluor-managed projects receive between $600 and $700 million of the $2 billion in total annual funding for cleanup of the 586-square-mile site.

Fluor Hanford has 3,600 employees working in some 180 facilities on the Hanford Site or in Richland, Wash., located just south of the site.

Employees of Fluor Hanford and its subcontractors have made significant progress in supporting the Department of Energy’s mission to clean up Hanford:

• Stabilized 20 tons of plutonium materials for storage or disposal
• Moved 2,300 tons of spent nuclear fuel from Hanford’s K Basins to safe, dry storage
• Consolidated radioactive sludge vacuumed from the floors of the K Basins
• Reduced contamination in Hanford’s groundwater
• Applied new technologies to groundwater cleanup
• Retrieved buried waste
• Shipped waste to a national repository for transuranic waste in New Mexico
• Cleaned out and demolished nuclear and industrial facilities on Hanford’s Central Plateau
• Removed nuclear fuel and liquid sodium from the Fast Flux Test Facility
• Improved worker safety through training at the Volpentest HAMMER Training and Education Center.

Safety

Safety is a core value at Fluor. Fluor Hanford has reduced the number of injuries on the Project Hanford Management Contract by more than 80 percent since 1996. There were 38 injuries in 8.2 million hours worked in fiscal year 2007, down from 411 in 15 million hours worked in 1996.

Nine Fluor projects at Hanford have been awarded Star Status in the Department of Energy’s Voluntary Protection Program, the department’s highest safety recognition. Projects must pass rigorous reviews and maintain injury and illness rates 50 to 75 percent better than industry averages.

Fluor Hanford has been recognized as one of America’s 10 safest companies by Occupational Hazards magazine in 2006 and was recognized as a safe workplace by the Association of Washington Business.