Orano Federal Services LLC, announced plans to lay off 15 employees, according to a notice filed with the North Carolina Department of Commerce.

Orano Federal Services, formerly AREVA Federal Services, provides technical support for clean-up activities regarding nuclear facility deactivation, decontamination, decommissioning, and demolishing.

The company works to support the Department of Energy’s five strategic services including environmental management, nuclear energy, Office of Science, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration.

The lay offs are in response to a contract terminated with MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility.

The contract was terminated after the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s ruling that stopped the DOE from halting construction on the facility, according the The Greenville News. Following the ruling, The National Nuclear Security Administration, an agency of the DOE, is not obligated to continue building the fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

The facility was intended to use weapons-grade plutonium by creating fuel for commercial nuclear reactors, and at one point provided 2,000 jobs for the project, the Greenville News reports.

The company is planning to cut two advisory engineers, a designer II, and engineer IV, and engineering manager, six principal engineers, two project engineers, an engineering supervisor and a technical consultant.

The layoffs will be permanent terminations. The layoffs are expected to begin and be completed on Jan. 7, 2019.

There are no bumping rights for the employees.

The company employs more than 500 employees in engineering offices located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Richland, Washington.