Category: Power

Comanche Station – Morrison-Knudsen had the publics best interest in mind when we built Colorado’s first advanced, highly efficient, supercritical coal unit that can generate more electricity with less fuel. As the states most efficient coal-fired power plant, it saves their customers money because it displaces higher cost electric generating units and reduces the need to purchase additional electricity from other sources. Also, largely thanks to the construction techniques, Comanche Station is the first plant in Colorado to control mercury emissions.

The Robert W Scherer Power Plant (also known as Plant Scherer) is a coal-fired power plant in Juliette, Georgia, just north of Macon, Georgia, in the United States. The plant has four units, each producing 880 megawatts. On this project the company installed a total of 1,432 micropiles (61,000 linear feet). MK used a sophisticated testing methodology to maximize the frictional bearing capacity of the rock strata, thus resulting in shorter micropiles, which saved the owner in excess of $5M and reduced the overall construction schedule.

The company went “Texas big” building the J. Robert Welsh Power Plant. A three unit base load, coal fired, electrical power station located southeast of Mount Pleasant, Texas in Titus County. All three units use sub-bituminous coal mined from the Powder River Basin where the company is a leading contractor in mine development and mining.

Savannah River Site – For almost 20 years, we managed this 310-square-rnile multi-purpose site for the DOE near Aiken, South Carolina. Responsibilities include: operating and modernizing the nation’s only tritium processing facilities; managing the nations largest plutonium handling and storage facilities; coordinating extensive hazardous facility operations, closure and remediation activities; operating the nations largest high-level nuclear waste vitrification facility, managing extensive waste management operations and directing the activities of the Savannah River National Laboratory.

Hanford River Corridor – Valued by the DOE at approximately $1.9 billion, our company is completing the cleanup of the DOE’s Hanford site along the Columbia River in southeastern Washington state. Included in the scope of work for the project is placing deactivated plutonium production reactors-some of them dating back to the 1940 – in interim safe storage (also known as cocooning), cleaning up waste sites and burial grounds located near the Columbia River, demolishing contaminated facilities and operating an environmental restoration disposal facility.

Idaho Closure Project – Our company is part of a team managing the $2.9 billion environmental cleanup of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site in Eastern Idaho. The contract calls for safely cleaning up the 890-square-mile site-including treatment and disposal of radioactive waste, retrieval, disposal, and other remediation related to buried waste, safe management of spent nuclear fuel, disposition of nuclear materials, disposition of reactor and non-reactor nuclear facilities and other environmental remediation activities. Our company helps maintain the laboratory’s national leadership in nuclear power and other scientific programs. The contract, which runs through at least 2014, is valued at approximately $4.8 billion. The multi-program laboratory employs about 3,000 people in a variety of scientific and operational tasks.

Our company is part of a team that manages and operates Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in northern New Mexico. The company’s primary role in the $14-billion contract is to safely manage the lab’s nuclear and other technically complex operations to support the advancement of science and the safety and security of the country.