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U.S. DOE Idaho Cleanup Project Core Contract (ICP Core)
Client: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Location: Idaho Falls, ID, U.S.
Business Segment: Mission Solutions
Industries: GovernmentEnergy Transition
Executive Summary
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected Fluor Idaho, LLC, to support the department's cleanup mission at the Idaho Site under a five-year Idaho Cleanup Project Core Contract (ICP Core). The 890-square-mile Idaho Site is located in the eastern Idaho high desert, 38 miles west of Idaho Falls.
With our nearly 60-year history at the Idaho Site, the environmental cleanup removed radioactive waste from the site, protecting water sources serving the local population.
The Idaho Site was selected by the Idaho Governor's Office of Energy and Mineral Resources as the recipient of the 2016 Governor's Award for Leadership in Energy Efficiency. The award recognized Fluor Idaho's successes in reducing energy use and environmental impacts at the site.
Client's Challenge
The DOE's Idaho cleanup involves the safe environmental remediation of the Idaho Site, including dispositioning transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel storage and high-level radioactive waste processing. The mission supports multiple national and state regulatory agreements, including the 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement.
Fluor's Solution
Fluor Idaho consolidated the previous Idaho Cleanup Project and the Advance Mixed Waste Treatment Project contracts into a single, streamlined organization. Safety-driven production operations, strong program leadership and clearly defined goals enabled Fluor Idaho to meet and accelerate project milestones.
Fluor Idaho began cleanup efforts in June 2016, achieving a significant cleanup accomplishment by September 2016 that further protects the underlying Snake River Plain Aquifer, the primary drinking and irrigation water source for more than 300,000 Idahoans.
Workers satisfied a provision of a 2008 agreement among the DOE, state of Idaho and Environmental Protection Agency by packaging a total of 7,485 cubic meters of exhumed hazardous and radioactive waste. The waste was generated at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production plant near Denver and was then buried in Idaho in the 1950s and 1960s
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To complete the 2008 agreement, just two of nine different areas within the 97-acre Subsurface Disposal Area are left to be exhumed. The waste exhumation project targeted removal of the highest concentrations of solvents and transuranic radionuclides buried in the landfill.
Fluor Idaho, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fluor, led a team that included subcontractors CH2M and Waste Control Specialists, LLC and Idaho-based small businesses North Wind Inc. and Portage, Inc.
Conclusion
The DOE selected Fluor Idaho to safely integrate, accelerate and deliver the Idaho Site cleanup mission under the five-year Idaho Cleanup Project Core Contract. The project is part of Fluor's nearly 60-year history with the Idaho Site community. Work was completed in 2021.
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