December 16, 2005

Issued to Fluor Hanford, Incorporated, related to issues at the Plutonium Finishing Plant and K-Basins facilities at the Hanford Site

On December 16, 2005, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a Preliminary Notice of Violation (EA-2005-07) to Fluor Hanford Incorporated for violations of 10 C.F.R. 830 related to eight technical safety requirement violations at the Plutonium Finishing Plant between September 2003 and July 2005, problems with criticality safety requirements compliance, and a November 3, 2004, personnel radiological exposure event at the K-West Basin at DOE's Hanford site.