A prime contractor to the Department of Energy (DOE) at Hanford from September 1996 through September 2008, Fluor Hanford managed several major activities at the Hanford Site, including dismantling former nuclear processing facilities, monitoring and cleaning up the site’s contaminated groundwater, retrieving and processing transuranic waste for off-site shipment, maintaining the site's infrastructure, providing fire protection (Hanford Fire Department), providing security (Hanford Patrol), and operating the Volpentest HAMMER Training & Education Center.  In October 2008, the new Plateau Remediation Contractor - the CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company - assumed responsibility for a major portion of Fluor Hanford’s work scope.  Until the transition to the Mission Support Contractor is complete, Fluor Hanford will continue to employ approximately 1,700 employees who will provide site services by maintaining the site's infrastructure, operating the Waste Sampling & Characterization Facility, providing fire protection (Hanford Fire Department) and security (Hanford Patrol), and operating the Volpentest HAMMER Training & Education Center.

During its 12-year tenure at Hanford, Fluor reduced OSHA recordable injuries by nearly 90 percent.  In 2006, Fluor Hanford was recognized as one of America’s 10 safest companies and in 2008 was honored with the National Safety Council’s international Robert W. Campbell Award. The Robert W. Campbell Award recognizes organizations that demonstrate improved productivity and profitability by holding health, safety, and environment as key business values. The award is underwritten by the Exxon Mobil Corporation through its philanthropic Foundation.Fluor made tremendous strides in reducing the risks at Hanford.  For example, from 2000-2004, Fluor Hanford moved 2,300 tons of spent nuclear fuel—80% of the DOE’s entire inventory of spent nuclear fuel—out of the two leak-prone K Basins and into dry storage. The governor of Washington State once called the corroding spent fuel in the K Basins one of the top three risks at Hanford (plutonium material needing stabilization and tank waste needing treatment were identified as the other two top risks). Fluor Hanford also removed and consolidated all the sludge from the basins for future treatment, drained the 1.2-million gallon K East Basin and demolished its superstructure in preparation for excavating the basin itself. Fluor Hanford also stabilized 18 metric tons of plutonium material in a variety of forms and packaged the material, either as waste for shipment out of the state, or as special nuclear material for later consolidation. Plutonium nitrate solutions that were stabilized as part of the campaign were once considered one of the top five risks in the DOE Complex.

One of the world's largest, publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services companies, Fluor has more than 35,000 employees working in some 25 countries across 6 continents. Fluor is a FORTUNE 500 company that is ranked #1 in FORTUNE magazine's “Engineering, Construction” category of America's largest corporations. Fluor's project management and partnering approach, as well as its focus on workplace safety, has become known internationally for accelerating schedules, improving safety, improving quality, and reducing costs.