AMEC
Background
Amec is one of Britain's leading engineering companies. In 2004, it was awarded major reconstruction contracts in Iraq.[1]
Nuclear Lobbying
On March 23, 2005 it invited some of Britain's most senior business journalists for breakfast at the St Stephen's Club in Westminster. Speakers at the event included David King, the government chief scientist, Brian Wilson, the former energy minister, and Dipesh Shah, chief executive of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, who made a pitch for nuclear energy in order "to stop the lights going out".
A Lucrative Clean up
A consortium including AMEC, British Nuclear Group Project Services, NIS Ltd, DGP International, and Weir Strachan & Henshaw has been chosen to build a £100 million pound facility at the nuclear plant at Dunreay to treat fast reactor fuel reprocessing wastes. The project is the largest project yet to be undertaken by the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency. [Nuclear News Flashes (2006) 6 January
Amec is also said to be teaming up with the UKAEA and the American company CH2M in order to bid for £56bn worth of clean-up work at Britain's civil nuclear sites. The work, incoluding decommissioning 20 electricity generation, fuel reprocessing and nuclear research sites is said to be valued at £2bn a year.
The Amec partnership will face fierce competition from British Nuclear Group, that operates BNFL's four sites including Sellafield, as well a host of foreign companies such as the controversial American company Bechtel, Fluor, and the French fim Cogema. [2]
CH2M a leading engineering company that has been cited by American Democrats as having a "conflict of interest" in its work in Iraq. [3]
Subject: [Fwd: Platts Nuclear News Flashes 1/20/2006]
NUCLEAR NEWS FLASHES - Friday, January 20, 2006
--FORMER DOE ASSISTANT SECRETARY JESSIE ROBERSON WILL BE PRESIDENT of CH2M Hill's Nuclear Services Business Group, the Denver-based company announced today. Most recently, Roberson was director of nuclear regulatory programs at Exelon Nuclear, the largest commercial nuclear power operator in the U.S. Roberson, who headed the multibillion-dollar cleanup of DOE nuclear defense sites during President George W. Bush's first term, has 25 years of technical and executive experience in the public and private sectors.
Related Articles
- Jonathan Leake and Dan Box, "When PR goes nuclear", New Statesman, May 27, 2005
