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When Stanley Watras, a Bechtel Group engineer assigned to the Limerick nuclear-power plant in Boyertown, Pa., set off radiation monitors last winter, that in itself was unusual. Nuclear-plant workers rarely come into contact with radioactive substances during their daily routine. What disturbed Watras even more was that he tripped the detectors not while he was leaving the nuclear complex but when he was entering it. As a result, he requested that Limerick's owner, Philadelphia Electric Co. (PECO), check radiation levels at his house in Colebrookdale, Pa., a few miles from the plant...
...Silver Plan: Lawyers from Harvard Law School will be to Bechtel as ‘Nam was to Lieutenant Dan, only this time Forrest Gump will be as fast as a member of the Advocate on horse tranquilizer. Can you say “black knight from Monty Python...
Because of these flaws, Big Dig officials from the Bechtel and Parsons Brinckerhoff firms began to probe the integrity of the rest of the tunnel’s slurry panels. As of the end of March, they found flaws in 58 out of the 1,250 panels that they had examined—only two of which were deemed to have serious defects...
...Fekaiki says he also met with two representatives from Bechtel, the U.S. construction giant working in Iraq, at a January conference in Amman, Jordan. "We got no active response," he says. "A company like Bechtel is funded by U.S. taxpayers to do a job in Iraq. I don't think it sees its existence in Iraq as long term." Francis Canavan, a Bechtel spokesman in Baghdad, says the employees at the conference do not recall talking to al-Fekaiki. He points out that Bechtel, which won $2.9 billion in reconstruction contracts from the U.S. government, has set aside...
...latest in a series of disputed bills and erroneous cost estimates. Representative Henry Waxman, a senior Democratic member of the House Government Reform Committee, says military contractors in Iraq don't have enough competition or oversight to keep them honest. "This is a great deal for Halliburton and Bechtel, but it's an absolutely horrendous arrangement for the taxpayer," says Waxman, who calls it "a recipe for waste, fraud and abuse." The bad news has been worrying enough that the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor's said last week it would keep a close eye on Halliburton...