ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Fluor Ends Talks to Acquire Cleanup Project: In a setback to its efforts to expand its nuclear decontamination business, Fluor Daniel Inc. said it will not take over the remaining 15 months of a federal contract to manage the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver. The major operating unit of Fluor Corp. in Irvine could not reach a final agreement with EG&G; Inc. in Wellesley, Mass., to take over its EG&G; Rocky Flats Inc. subsidiary and the contract to manage the one-time plutonium and weapons facility. EG&G;, which is getting out of the business, said it will continue to manage the project until its five-year contract with the Department of Energy expires at the end of 1995. Because the deal fell through, Fluor Daniel decided that it would not bid on the next five-year contract to clean up Rocky Flats, leaving the project to other companies already putting bids together.