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| − | A consortium including AMEC, British Nuclear Group Project Services, NIS Ltd, DGP International, and Weir Strachan & Henshaw has been chosen to build a | + | 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 Dounreay 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 | + | 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 as a host of foreign companies such as the controversial American company [[Bechtel]], Fluor, and the French firm Cogema. [http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article339105.ece] | The Amec partnership will face fierce competition from [[British Nuclear Group]], that operates [[BNFL]]'s four sites including Sellafield, as well as a host of foreign companies such as the controversial American company [[Bechtel]], Fluor, and the French firm Cogema. [http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article339105.ece] | ||
Revision as of 21:58, 18 April 2006
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 Dounreay 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 as a host of foreign companies such as the controversial American company Bechtel, Fluor, and the French firm Cogema. [2]
CH2M Hill is a leading engineering company that has been cited by American Democrats as having a "conflict of interest" in its work in Iraq. [3] Its new president is the former American Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Jessie Roberson. [Nuclear News Flashes (2006) 20 January]
Related Articles
- Jonathan Leake and Dan Box, "When PR goes nuclear", New Statesman, May 27, 2005
