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URS has developed proven Integrated Management Systems that create safety conscious cultures for the highest hazard,
most complex and regulated facilities in the world. With our extensive resources, customers receive the most
comprehensive inventory of engineering, construction and management available.
The Global Management & Operations Services Group of URS provides safe, innovative management of high risk,
technically complex projects, programs and facilities for the U.S. Department of Energy and other global organisations.
Nuclear Processing/High Hazard Facilities
URS is a leader in the safe operation of high-hazard/high-consequence facilities. We have safely operated plutonium and
other complex nuclear chemical processing facilities at DOE sites across the US.
URS is part of each of the consortiums that have been awarded contracts to manage and operate the UK’s Low Level
Waste Repository and Sellafield sites by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
Nuclear/Hazardous Waste
As the only company to vitrify high-level radioactive nuclear waste in the United States, URS is a world leader in safely
managing nuclear and other hazardous wastes for a wide range of federal and state agencies.
URS is the only DOE contractor successfully to licence a deep geological nuclear waste repository in the U.S. The company
oversaw the building, licensing and start up of the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a transuranic waste repository near
Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Additionally, URS was the lead managemnt contractor for the licensing of Yucca Mountain.
Environmental/Facility Closure
URS is a leader in the safe and regulatory compliant closure of facilities formerly used to process and store nuclear and
other hazardous materials. URS capitalises on state-of-the-art technical knowledge backed by six decades of experience
working at nuclear facilities for commercial and government clients.
URS’s closure efforts are backed by experienced teams of professional engineers, scientists, regulatory analysts and
project managers specialising in hazardous and radiological waste engineering; soil, groundwater and mixed waste
remediation; facility decontamination and decommissioning; and environmental compliance.
Global Environmental Technology
URS has a proud history of providing advanced technological solutions. URS is a leader in the development of innovative
technologies to provide solutions to problems ranging from environmental remediation to homeland security. These
technologies range from solvent cleanup methods to waste site capping and sealing approaches.
URS also pioneered a variety of natural remedies such as phytoremediation (using natural vegetative processes),
bioremediation (using naturally occurring microbes), and monitored natural remediation (establishing a groundwater
mixing zone), to passively remove contaminants and improve the cost and effectiveness of its cleanup efforts.
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