Spotlight: Federal Audit Mildly Critical of Fluor

A federal audit says Fluor Corp. has been sloppy and wasteful at times in carrying out its $2.4-billion contract to clean up a federal nuclear-material-processing site in southern Ohio. But the audit also found that Irvine-based Fluor has neither committed any criminal act nor caused safety problems since taking over the massive job in 1992. A Fluor spokesman said that while the company “might take issue with some of the findings, for the most part it is a fair representation.”