IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – EM’s new contractor for the Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP), Fluor Idaho, LLC, has unveiled its senior management team.
“The 90-day transition process is now halfway complete and Fluor Idaho, LLC, is on track to take over operations on June 1,” DOE-Idaho Deputy Manager Jack Zimmerman said.
Heading Fluor Idaho as president and program manager is Fred Hughes, who has spent almost 40 years in government, commercial power, and naval nuclear operations. Hughes last served for five years as deputy site project director for Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, LLC, EM’s decontamination and decommissioning contractor at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio. He is no stranger to DOE’s Idaho Site, though, having previously served for three years as general manager for BNFL, Inc., responsible for permitting, constructing and starting up the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP). He also served for five years in management positions at the Idaho Site’s Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC).
Hughes’ previous positions include vice president and project consortium director for Westinghouse at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station from 2008 to 2010; and chief operations officer at the former Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado for four years. He is a U.S. Navy veteran who started his career in the U.S. Navy submarine force on the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Ohio.
"I am looking forward to returning to Idaho and delivering on the mission that I was part of years ago. I'm joining an incredibly talented team and together we will integrate, accelerate, and deliver the Idaho Cleanup Project mission,” Hughes said.
Fluor Idaho’s management team also includes:
- Deputy Program Manager and Waste Operations Director Tom Dieter;
- AMWTP/ARP Operations Manager Hoss Brown;
- INTEC/SNF Director Michael Swain;
- Regulatory Planning and CERCLA Remediation Director Marc Jewett;
- EM Infrastructure Director John Law;
- ESH&Q Director Alice Doswell;
- Business Director Peggy Davis;
- Chief Engineer Steve Davies; and
- Communications Director Ann Ridesel.
Fluor Idaho is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fluor and leads a team that includes subcontractors CH2M, Waste Control Specialists, LLC, and Idaho-based small businesses North Wind, Inc., and Portage, Inc.
Many of Fluor Idaho’s senior managers come with experience at other EM sites. For example, Swain, Doswell, and Davis all previously worked at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Like Hughes, Law and Jewett also previously worked at the Portsmouth site. Both Dieter and Brown were on the management team of CH2M-WG Idaho, the previous contractor for the Idaho Cleanup Project.
In early February, EM awarded Fluor Idaho the ICP Core Contract, estimated to be worth approximately $1.4 billion over five years. Work to be performed under the contract includes stabilizing and storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste; dispositioning transuranic waste; retrieving targeted buried waste; closing the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC) tank farm; maintaining Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) remedial actions; and operating and maintaining the INTEC, RWMC, and the Radioactive Scrap and Waste Facility (RSWF) facility infrastructure.