Fluor subsidiary Stork UK has landed a three-year contract to provide inspection and quality assurance services to Sellafield Limited’s nuclear site in the United Kingdom, Fluor said in a Thursday press release.
The new contract is scheduled to start in November and has two single-year follow-on option periods, Fluor said in the release. The announcement did not list the value of the contract.
In 2021, Fluor announced plans to sell off its Stork subsidiaries, and has already divested the ones in Australia and New Zealand, the company said. The Texas-based Fluor is continuing its efforts to sell its remaining Stork regional businesses in the United Kingdom, Latin America and the Middle East, according to the release.
Two businessmen with companies doing work for the Department of Energy’s Kansas City National Security Campus allegedly carried out a kickback scheme involving nuclear weapons parts, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Michael Clinesmith, 67, of Kansas, allegedly sought and received kickbacks and bribes over at least a decade from Richard Mueller, 63, of Missouri, in exchange for steering subcontracts from Clinesmith’s employer to Mueller’s company, according an unsealed indictment, Justice said in the release. Clinesmith, is a longtime employee of a major engineering firm, identified as “Company 1” working at the facility managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Clinesmith allegedly used his position at Company 1 to steer subcontracts to for gauges – designed to measure the components for nuclear weapons — to “Subcontractor 1,” in exchange for Mueller paying him over $1 million, Justice said. Both individuals are charged with multiple counts of wire fraud and if convicted could face 20 or more years in prison.
Research backed by the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina finds hope for curbing the growth of wild pig populations rooting their way through the Southeast.
“Following implementation of control efforts, both the number of wild pig detections and estimated abundance decreased markedly,” according to the study by the University of Georgia’s SRS-based Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. The forests around Savannah River and elsewhere in South Carolina showed a 70% decrease in the wild pig populations over two years where control measures were taken. There was also a 99% drop in damage from pig digging or rooting.
The study was featured in a recent article in National Hog Farmer.
