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Bechtel Corporation

Violation of the DOE Contractor Employee Protection Program (Hanford)

Date: 09/15/2008 (Date of PNOV)

Misconduct Type: Labor

Enforcement Agency: Energy

Contracting Party: Energy

Court Type: Administrative

Amount: $41,250

Disposition: Fine

Synopsis: The Department of Energy fined Bechtel National $41,250 for laying off an employee who raised concerns in 2005 about the safety of the Hanford vitrification plant. The DOE Office of Enforcement later found that one of the employee's concerns about the software that controls the plant was valid and issued a notice of violation to Bechtel about it in 2007 (see Bechtel instance, “Violations of Nuclear Safety Regulations (Hanford)”).