A team led by Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas, won the potentially 10-year, $28-billion contract to manage the National Nuclear Security Administration’s two big nuclear-weapon production facilities in Tennessee and Texas, multiple sources said Monday.
The team beat out at least two other bids — one led by BWX Technologies and another led by Bechtel National — to become the long-term steward of the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Site in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The former assembles and disassembles nuclear weapons, the latter makes nuclear-weapon secondary stages.
Fluor has a 60% stake in a company called Nuclear Production One LLC, which was registered in Delaware around the time the NNSA released the final solicitation for the next National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Production Office contract to manage Pantex and Y-12. The deal has five years of firm money.
The NNSA in 2020 decided to not to renew the contract of the Bechtel-led incumbent, Consolidated Nuclear Security, which will remain at Y-12 to continue building the Uranium Processing Facility: the next-generation factory for the components and elements of nuclear-weapon secondary stages.
