Eagle Supply & Manufacturing, L.P. v. Bechtel Jacobs Co.

OPINION

THAPAR, Circuit Judge.

During World War II, the United States launched the Manhattan Project — the military’s effort to build the world’s first atomic bomb. Building the bomb was a big project. Cleaning up afterward turned out to be a big one, too. Since the mid-1980s, the Project’s original uranium-enrichment facilities' in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, have been inactive, and the Department of Energy (“DOE”) has worked to clean up the hazardous waste left behind.

This case arises out of that cleanup. To manage its effort, DOE hired Bechtel Jacobs Company (“Bechtel”), a global engineering and…