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Squabble in UK over who gets the lucrative nuclear decommissioning job

Union fury as US firms eye nuclear work The Independent MARK LEFTLY     23 APRIL 2012 A swath of US firms are preparing to bid to oversee the multibillion-pound decommissioning of 10 obsolete Magnox reactor-powered nuclear stations, angering unionsthat want the work to go to British outfits.

The programme management role to look after some or all of the decommissioning, which includes Hinkley Point A in Somerset and Bradwell in Essex, is expected to go out to tender next year. Currently the sites are being run by Magnox Ltd, a company owned by
Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions.

The reactors are being decommissioned ahead of the nuclear new-build
programme and will be lucrative, with costs of at least £1bn a site
expected. The US giants Bechtel, URS and Jacobs are understood to be
mulling bids. Another, Fluor, is believed to have started putting a
consortium together, while EnergySolutions could also bid, having
already done the preparatory work……
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/union-fury-as-us-firms-eye-nuclear-work-7669063.html

April 23, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, UK