Jacobs Receives Contract From British Nuclear Group

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract to provide resource enhancement services to the Nuclear Decommissioning and Major Projects Department (ND&MPD) of British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd (BNGSL) on the delivery of major projects at the Sellafield and Capenhurst sites.

ND&MPD currently has over 4,000 staff members executing projects as part of a $26 billion lifetime plan for cleanup. In the next financial year, ND&MPD will oversee $1.2 billion in spending. The new contract takes effect on May 1, 2007.

Sellafield is the U.K.'s largest nuclear reservation, where spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed and recovered nuclear material is developed into new nuclear fuel. Concurrent with the reprocessing and fuel manufacture operations, the site is undergoing a program of cleanup of legacy wastes and facilities shutdown. Capenhurst is home to the world's first gaseous diffusion plant decommissioning project. It also houses modernized and upgraded facilities in the former diffusion plant to store uranic materials prior to their long-term reuse within the nuclear fuel cycle. Now owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the combined facilities employ more than 12,000 people and are managed by British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd.

Under the Resource Enhancement contract, Jacobs will provide a range of project delivery services to support NDA and BNGSL efforts to accelerate facility cleanup with the main objective to promote faster and less expensive delivery of cleanup and construction projects at the site.

In making the announcement, Jacobs Group Vice President Phil Stassi stated, "The extensive work being performed at Sellafield has huge significance for the future of the nuclear industry in the U.K. We are delighted that a team from Jacobs will play such a key role in enhancing the delivery of several major new facilities necessary to facilitate site cleanup."

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Posted 15/05/07

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