DOE Awards Yucca Mountain Contract To URS-Led Consortium

摘要

In a contract award that conies at a critical juncture for the controversial project, the Energy Department announced Thursday it has selected a consortium led by URS Corp. to help complete the design of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and support DOE's effort to get Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval to build and operate the underground disposal facility.URS, which has seen its DOE contract work mushroom since buying Washington Group International Inc. last year, will team with Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure Inc. and Areva Federal Services Inc. on the management and operations (M&O) contract to oversee an estimated $2.5 billion in work on the repository project.