URS-Shaw-Areva Win Big Role At DOE’s Yucca Mountain Site - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction

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The U.S. Energy Dept. is replacing a Bechtel-SAIC joint venture as manager of its planned Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository north of Las Vegas. USA Repository Services, a team led by the Washington division of URS, with subcontractors Shaw Group Inc. and Areva Federal Services, will succeed it under a $2.5-billion contract announced on Oct. 30. Bechtel-SAIC, the incumbent since 2001, bid unsuccessfully for the new five-year contract, with an additional five-year option, as did a team led by Babcock & Wilcox. The switch comes amid political and financial uncertainty for the project, whose estimated completion cost is now $90 billion, up $19 billion from a 2007 figure. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission began a review of the ...

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