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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Committee in UK Recommends Sellafield Cleanup Company Lose Contract Unless Performance Improves

Committee in UK Recommends Sellafield Cleanup Company Lose Contract Unless Performance Improves

A parliamentary report published Tuesday took the management of the UK's Sellafield site to task for rising costs and missed milestones, recommending that its cleanup contractor be dismissed if performance does not improve.

Sellafield is the country's most complex nuclear decommissioning project, home to the Windscale Piles, commercial reactors, Cold-War-era weapons facilities and storage of nuclear waste and plutonium. In October, the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority awarded a five-year management contract extension to Nuclear Management Partners, a consortium of URS Corp., Amec and Areva. The report by the Public Accounts Committee called that decision "highly questionable," adding, "NMP has not provided the leadership and strong contract management skills that are critical for the success of the major projects at Sellafield and the running of such a large and complicated site." Read More

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