US Energy Dept. Suspends $13B Hanford Nuke Waste Cleanup Award | 2020-08-13 | Engineering News-Record

US Energy Dept. Suspends $13B Hanford Nuke Waste Cleanup Award | 2020-08-13 | Engineering News-Record: The U.S. Energy Dept has suspended the May award of a 10-year, $13-billion contract to contractors BWX Technologies and Fluor Corp. to manage, clean up and close 177 contaminated underground waste storage tanks at its Hanford nuclear site, deciding that the procurement needs “corrective action.” The agency told ENR on Aug. 12 it will extend for up to one year an existing contract for the work held by Washington River Protection Solutions LLC at the former weapons manufacturing site in Washington state. The  consortium is . . .