Nuclear, Security, & Environmental
editThe Nuclear, Security, & Environmental unit handles the company’s government work and commercial nuclear businesses.[1] The unit supports U.S. and international governmental organizations including the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy.[2][3] Since the 1950s, Bechtel has designed, serviced, or delivered 80 percent of all nuclear plants in the U.S..[4]
As of 2016, Bechtel leads a consortium that manages three national security-related facilities in the U.S.: the Los Alamos National Laboratory the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the combined Y-12 National Security Complex/Pantex Plant.[3][5] Bechtel won numerous sustainability awards for its work with these facilities from the National Nuclear Security Administration, including twelve in 2016.[6][7]
Bechtel has been contracted to manage the United States Navy's nuclear propulsion research facilities since 2011.[3] In June 2013 the unit completed design and construction on a U.S. Missile Defense Agency project at Fort Greely, Alaska, which included three missile fields and forty silos.[8] In 2014 the U.K. Ministry of Defence selected Bechtel to support the Royal Navy and Air Force on procurement and managed support services.[9] Additionally, in 2016, Bechtel began providing testing and operations for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex at the Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee.[10]
Other government work includes the construction of the facilities to treat the liquid radioactive waste stored underground at the Department of Energy's Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington. The unit also manages U.S. Department of Defense contracts to dismantle and dispose of stored chemical weapons, including decades-old mustard and nerve gas from World War II.[11][12][13] It completed the construction of the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant as part of this work in 2015.[14] Since May 2012, Bechtel has been part of a consortium completing the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement, a structure that will safely confine the damaged Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Number 4.[15] As of 2016, It is a partner in Savannah River Remediation, the liquid waste contractor for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.[16]
In 2016, Bechtel completed work on Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar 2 nuclear reactor.[17][18] It has been fulfilling an engineering, procurement and construction contract to replace three steam generators at the Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania since 2013.[19] In May 2016, a joint venture including Bechtel won a contract to conduct front-end engineering and design for the eventual construction of Wylfa Newydd, a nuclear power station in Wales for Horizon Nuclear Power.[20]
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- ^ "Top 20 Defense Contractors in 2014". Professional Overseas Contractors. January 10, 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ^ a b c Shawn Tully (17 May 2016). "Meet the Private Company That Has Changed the Face of the World". Fortune. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ "Annual Report". Bechtel. 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- ^ "Y-12 contractor executive shares his philosophy". Knoxville News Sentinel. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ Harthy, Camille (December 13, 2013). "Bechtel National Security Sites Win 13 NNSA Sustainability Awards; Craig Albert Comments". GovCon Exec Magazine. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ "Bechtel Congratulates Affiliated Sites for Sustainability Excellence Awards" (Press release). Bechtel. 17 May 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ "Bechtel completes work on US MDA's ground-based midcourse defence programme". Army-Technology.com. June 12, 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ Andrew Chuter (18 August 2014). "Bechtel, CH2M Hill Win UK Service Provider Contracts". Defense News. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ^ Kelly Lapczynski (3 July 2016). "NAS begins contract operation at AEDC". The Tullahoma News. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ Jones, Andy (April 16, 2010). "Bechtel Makes It Official for New Head of Washington Office". LegalTimes. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ Weisse, Karen (September 11, 2013). "The Risky Business of Destroying Chemical Weapons". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ Valerie Brown (May 9, 2013). "Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous". Scientific American. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ Ryan Maass (28 October 2015). "Bechtel and partners move toward destroying U.S. chemical weapons". United Press International. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ "Enormous Chernobyl Confinement Shelter to be Completed in 2015". Nuclear Street News. May 25, 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ "Savannah River Remediation receives safety award". The Augusta Chronicle. 13 July 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ "TVA Orders Replacement Steam Generators for Watts Bar 2". Breakbulk. February 18, 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ "First criticality for Watts Bar 2". World Nuclear News. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ "Bechtel wins nuclear power plant contract". Electric Light & Power. June 6, 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ Kedar Grandhi (21 May 2016). "Hitachi, Bechtel and JGC aiming to build £10bn nuclear power station in Wales". Retrieved 1 August 2016.