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AMEC Win Nuclear Clean-up Contract
The next phase of the project, expected to start in 2007, will involve developing full-scale GeoMelt treatment plants, while the final operation stage will begin in 2011 and run until 2028, giving the project a potential value to AMEC of USD1.4bn. Find out more about AMEC Search for more AMEC News Added to site on 29/06/04 |
AMEC has won a contract worth between USD38m and USD53m for the next stage of the world's largest environmental clean-up project at the massive US nuclear weapons site in Hanford, Washington. The contract runs from now to September 2006 and will use GeoMelt technology which turns low-level radioactive waste into a glass-like material ten times stronger than concrete.