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However, the availability of these products, components and raw materials may vary significantly from year
to year due to various factors including client demand, producer capacity, market conditions and specific
material shortages.
Research and Development
Aside from our investment in NuScale Power, LLC, we generally do not engage in significant research
and development efforts for new products and services and, during the past three fiscal years, we have not
incurred cost for company-sponsored or client-sponsored research and development activities which would
be material, special or unusual in any of our business segments. See ‘‘Item 7. — Management’s Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Power’’ for further discussion of the
operations of NuScale Power, LLC.
Patents
We hold patents and licenses for certain items that we use in our operations. However, none is so
essential that its loss would materially affect our business.
Environmental, Safety and Health Matters
We believe, based upon present information available to us, that our accruals with respect to future
environmental cost are adequate and any future cost will not have a material effect on our consolidated
financial position, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or competitive position. Some
factors, however, could result in additional expenditures or the provision of additional accruals in
expectation of such expenditures. These include the imposition of more stringent requirements under
environmental laws or regulations, new developments or changes regarding site cleanup cost or the
allocation of such cost among potentially responsible parties, or a determination that we are potentially
responsible for the release of hazardous substances at sites other than those currently identified.
Number of Employees
The following table sets forth the number of employees of Fluor and its subsidiaries engaged in our
business segments as of December 31, 2013:
Number of
Employees
Salaried Employees:
Oil & Gas .......................................................... 13,544
Industrial & Infrastructure .............................................. 5,436
Government ......................................................... 6,528
Global Services ....................................................... 1,505
Power ............................................................. 663
Other .............................................................. 1,749
Total Salaried .......................................................... 29,425
Craft and Hourly Employees ............................................... 8,704
Total ................................................................ 38,129
The number of craft and hourly employees, who provide support throughout the various business
segments, varies in relation to the number, size and phase of execution of projects we have in process at
any particular time.
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