Fluor Corp. has posted an online help-wanted advertisement connected to liquid waste management at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The company is not a member of the current liquid waste team at SRS, but is widely believed to have joined with Westinghouse Government Services to bid on the upcoming contract.
The job ad, posted last week both on Fluor’s internal careers web page and Indeed.com, seeks a communications/public affairs lead for Savannah River liquid waste in Aiken, S.C.
Fluor teams with Honeywell and Stoller Newport News Nuclear in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, management and operations contractor for the DOE facility. However, the job of management and disposal of roughly 35 million gallons of liquid waste from Cold War-era nuclear arms operations still falls to Savannah River Remediation (SRR): a partnership of AECOM, Bechtel, CH2M, and BWX Technologies.
The Energy Department in April extended SRR’s contract by six months, to Dec. 31. However, there has been no word yet on the recipient of the next contract expected to be worth up to $6 billion over a decade.
Westinghouse Government Services on Wednesday referred questions regarding the job posting to Fluor, which did not respond to requests for comment by deadline Wednesday. The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management, which oversees cleanup at the Savannah River Site, referred Weapons Complex Morning Briefing to an Aug. 11 procurement update that forecasts the SRS liquid waste contract being awarded sometime from this month to October.
Westinghouse Government Services is a limited liability company that is legally distinct from the parent company’s bankruptcy filing earlier this year. Last year, Westinghouse Electric brought Fluor on as a construction subcontractor for two new reactors planned at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in South Carolina; that project was put on ice earlier this month by plant owners South Carolina Electric & Gas and Santee Cooper.
