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AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has signed a major contract with EDF Group to support their Architect Engineering operation for the proposed delivery of four new EPR* nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point and Sizewell in the UK. Read it all..

Magnox North Shortlisted For Constructing Excellence Client of the year for 2^nd year running

Magnox North and South (companies owned by EnergySolutions) have been shortlisted in the ‘Constructing Excellence South West Built Environment Awards 2010’.

Magnox lines up as finalists alongside high profile organisations including Gloucestershire County Council and Clive Johnston Asda Stores. Read it all..

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We are aware of speculation regarding redundancies at Sellafield.

The Sellafield Ltd vision is to deliver the NDA’s clean up mission safely and efficiently and, in doing so, become the site and workforce of choice for potential new missions.
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Teams at Sellafield are nearing completion on a pilot scheme to segregate potential Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) from Low Level Waste (LLW), which could save the company up to £1.42M in disposal costs.

The work resulted in 865 bags of air–fed suits being reclassified as LLW (with no items being classed as PCM) rather than the original estimate of only 400. Read it all..

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Magnox North Wylfa Site has just ended an excellent financial year by having no lost time accidents* on the site for 12 months.

In a single year, the site has had an excellent safety performance, maintaining its ROSPA Gold Medal, British Safety Council 5 Star rating and the Sword of Honour for safety management, which is only awarded to 40 companies worldwide. The standard continued throughout the Reactor 1 statutory outage, when there is increased workload and personnel.

The site prides itself on having safety related campaigns throughout the year to support various topics such as road safety, by providing defensive driving for high mileage drivers and skid courses for under 26 year olds.

Fred Brookes, Wylfa’s Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Health Manager said, “Safety comes first at Wylfa and one year with no lost time accidents is a great achievement. Our next challenge is to maintain this level of achievement throughout the Reactor 2 outage which started on the 8th April.”

CEO Tony Fountain has made some changes to his executive team.

John Clarke will take up the new role of Executive Director – Business Planning, and Richard Waite will take up the new role of Executive Director – Delivery.

These changes reflect the organisation’s greater focus on performance and delivery. Reporting to John Clarke will be Adrian Simper, Strategy Director and Sean Balmer, Commercial Director.

Jon Phillips, Communications Director, and Jim McLaughlin, HR Director continues to report to the CEO. Andrew Oldham is interim Chief Finance Officer pending a permanent appointment.

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AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, announces the acquisition of Entec Holdings Ltd (Entec), the UK-based environmental and engineering consultancy, from its owner-managers and investors, Growth Capital Partners, for an initial consideration of £61.2 million. The acquisition has been made on a cash free/debt free basis and the consideration has been settled in cash. Further payments may be made, subject to retention and performance. Read it all..

Press Release 31 March 2010

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is today (31 March) publishing its Business Plan. The Plan confirms expenditure of £2.8 Billion for the next year (2010/11) across the NDA’s estate of 19 sites built in the post-war days of the UK’s early nuclear programme.

As part of its mission the NDA operates a number of commercial nuclear operations including electricity generation and reprocessing for domestic and foreign customers. This next year income of £1.15 Billion is expected to be generated to help fund the decommissioning programme.

Tony Fountain NDA Chief Executive Officer said:

“Our work programme is moving at speed and we have achieved much in our first five years. But, it has never been more important for the NDA to focus on value for money as we seek to progress our clean-up mission over the next year and beyond.”

Substantial progress has been made in restructuring the industry to allow international private sector expertise to be brought in via competitions to manage our sites. This year will see progress in the next competition to select a new Parent Body for Dounreay, the NDA’s second most important site.

Funds will continue to be prioritised towards reducing risks at the most hazardous sites, with £1.5 billion of expenditure planned at Sellafield for the coming year.  This will include the completion of the Evaporator D structure – a vital component of the reprocessing programme which reduces the Highly Active Liquid waste stored on site. This is the single biggest construction project anywhere in the UK nuclear industry, estimated to cost £400 million.

Given the tight fiscal environment, it is essential that further efficiency savings are made with targets set for the Site Licence Companies to deliver a £30 million reduction in overhead and support costs alone in the coming 12 months.

“Through a combination of better plans, more efficient delivery and cost savings achieved we will continue to deliver efficiency gains for the taxpayer across our estate. At the same time, we are driving improvements to the organisational effectiveness of the NDA that will reduce HQ running costs this year by 20% from previously planned levels (approximately £12 million)” said Fountain.