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USEC gives $1 billion contract to Fluor for nuclear plant - MarketWatch

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:19:30 -0000

USEC Inc. ( said Thursday it had awarded a $1 billion contract to Fluor Corp. for the construction of USEC's American centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The contract will run until 2012. "This contract is expected to create approximately 1,000 new jobs, including 800 jobs at the Ohio site," said USEC Senior Vice President Philip Sewell. The plant will provide nuclear fuel for power plants

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DOE and Bechtel Jacobs sign $1.48B cleanup contract : Business : Knoxville News Sentinel

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:54:43 -0000

The Department of Energy and Bechtel Jacobs Co. have reached agreement on a newly restructured contract, valued at $1.48 billion, for Oak Ridge cleanup activities through 2011.

The new contract replaces Bechtel Jacobs’ previous contract and extends the contract period. It also establishes a fixed fee for the company’s future work and includes a settlement on previous fees owed to Bechtel Jacobs, which had been the subject of lengthy negotiations.

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China, Jordan sign power plant deal - Xinhua

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:51:39 -0000

China and Jordan on Tuesday inked a deal on a power station expansion project, the first of its kind implemented by Chinese firms in Jordan's power generation sector and hailed by the Chinese ambassador in Jordan Gong Xiaosheng as a result of bilateral cooperation.

The add-on cycle power plant contract, worth of multi-million U.S. dollars, was signed by China's Shandong Electric Power Construction Corp III Electric Power Construction Corp.(SEPCO III)and Samra Electric Power Generating Co. (SEPGCO).

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Hanford News: New Hanford contract protested

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:48:05 -0000

The award of Hanford's new $3 billion Mission Support Contract has been protested, the Department of Energy notified Hanford employees Monday evening.

DOE expects the Government Accountability Office to take up to 100 days to resolve the protest. In the meantime, work to transition to the new support services contract cannot begin.

The contract was awarded Sept. 3 to Mission Support Alliance, a team led by Lockheed Martin. Mission Support Alliance was told then that it would begin the transition from Fluor Hanford on Oct. 1 at the earliest and would assume full responsibility Jan. 1.

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MPs recommend delay on Russian uranium deal (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:46:49 -0000

Federal Parliament's Treaties Committee has recommended the Government delay ratifying a treaty to sell uranium to Russia because of fears about the country's nuclear weapons program.

The treaty was signed last year by the former Howard Government.

But after examining the proposal, the committee says it should not go ahead until Russia separates its civil and military nuclear facilities.

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Hanford News: Lockheed Martin secures $3 billion for Hanford contract

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:19:27 -0000

A team led by Lockheed Martin Integrated Technology has won a $3 billion contract to provide support services at the Hanford nuclear reservation for up to a decade, the Department of Energy announced Wednesday.

The winning team, a limited liability company called Mission Support Alliance, also includes Jacobs Engineering Group and Wackenhut Services.

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Aust-Russian uranium deal under scrutiny - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:54:21 -0000

The Federal Government says it will consider Russia's aggression in Georgia before it ratifies a deal to sell uranium to Russia.

Russia's ambassador to Australia, Alexander Blokhin, has reportedly warned any scrapping of the deal would be "politically biased" and economically harmful.

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Chattanooga Times Free Press | Tennessee Valley Authority cuts contract for nuclear security

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:16:26 -0000

The Tennessee Valley Authority announced today that it will end its contract with a private security firm that has provided guards at TVA nuclear plants since 1997.

TVA Nuclear Chief Bill Campbell said the federal utility plans to terminate its contract with Pinkerton Government Services and bring back security positions as TVA employees during the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. The change will affect about 500 security workers employed at TVA’s Sequoyah, Watts Bar and Browns Ferry nuclear plants, TVA spokesman John Moulton said.

Under its current contract, TVA paid Pinkerton $159 million, or $26.5 million a year, for security at the three nuclear plants from October 2002 through October 2008.

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Russia warns Australia on halting uranium sales | International | Jerusalem Post

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:21:22 -0000

Russia has warned that both the Russian and Australian economies will suffer if Canberra carries out a threat to withhold uranium sales to Moscow because of the conflict in Georgia.

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has joined world leaders in calling on Russia to observe a cease-fire agreement that requires it to remove its military from the former Soviet state.

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AFP: Australia reconsiders nuclear deal with Russia

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:55:51 -0000

Australia is reconsidering a pact to sell uranium to Russia following its military push into Georgia, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith warned on Monday.

He spoke as the head of a parliamentary committee examining the deal that would allow sales of uranium for use in Russia's civil nuclear power industry, expanding on the terms of a 1990 agreement, raised fears the yellowcake could be diverted for nuclear weapons use.

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Russia says uranium deal unaffected - Breaking News

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:50:48 -0000

Russia is arguing that the current troubles in Georgia shouldn't affect a deal it has struck to buy Australian uranium.

Conservationists are urging the federal government to reconsider the deal, struck by the former Howard government last year, which allows Russia to buy Australian uranium for civilian purposes under strict safeguards.

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EDF finalises deal to run two China nuclear plants | Industries | Industrials, Materials & Utilities | Reuters

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:23:44 -0000

EDF the world's biggest single producer of nuclear energy, signed a formal agreement on Sunday to invest in and operate two new-generation reactors in the southern province of Guangdong.

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Contract awarded for disposal facility in Texas

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:23:28 -0000

Waste Control Specialists (WCS), a subsidiary of Valhi, has awarded a contract to URS to lead the design and construction of a new low-level radioactive waste (LLW) facility in Andrews County, Texas.

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House panel sets terms for US nuclear cooperation with Russia

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:41:55 -0000

The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee voted Thursday to approve a bill establishing conditions for US-Russian nuclear cooperation, which also may increase the chances that the two countries' cooperation deal will go into effect before the end of the year. Before approving the bill (H.R. 6574), some members of the panel emphasized that it was "first and foremost" a bill approving the cooperation agreement, as one Democrat put it.

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EDF nuclear deal could value British Energy at £12.4bn | The Guardian

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:40:54 -0000

France's EDF and Britain's nuclear generator, British Energy, are understood to have reached agreement in principle on the terms of an agreed bid.

Although work on an offer is continuing, the French company is understood to be keen to finalise a deal next week, ahead of publication of its latest figures on Friday.

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USEC Inc. Submits Application for DOE Loan Guarantee - MarketWatch

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:32:05 -0000

USEC Inc. has submitted its application for a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to fund construction of the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio.
DOE invited nuclear energy projects to submit loan guarantee applications on June 30, 2008. The omnibus fiscal year 2008 appropriations act authorized DOE to issue $38.5 billion worth of loan guarantees through the end of fiscal year 2009, with $2 billion for advanced "front-end" nuclear fuel cycle facilities.

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Whitehaven News: Who Nuclear Management Partners are

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:28:11 -0000

Nuclear Management Partners Ltd is a joint venture comprising URS Corporation - Washington Division, AMEC and AREVA.

URS Corporation - Washington Division (formerly Washington Group International) is a provider of planning, engineering design, construction, technical, management, and operations and maintenance services to public and private sector clients worldwide.
It employs 25,000 people. Washington and URS are the main sponsors of Whitehaven Rugby League.

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BBC NEWS | Business | Group chosen for Sellafield job

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:25:24 -0000

A consortium, including the UK's Amec, has been named as the government's preferred choice to clean up and run the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria.

The UK's Amec, URS's Washington Division of the US, and France's Areva have been shortlisted for the £1.3bn-a-year contract.

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CHRONOLOGY - Twists and turns in the India-U.S. nuclear deal | Top News | Reuters

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:53:55 -0000

Reuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appears to be pressing ahead with a civilian nuclear deal with the United States despite threats from his communist allies that they could withdraw their crucial parliamentary support from the government

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Bloomberg.com: UK seeks nuclear reprocessing deal with japan

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:33:50 -0000

June 23 (Bloomberg) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet with his Japanese counterpart Yasuo Fukuda next month to discuss a nuclear-fuel reprocessing contract, worth about 1 billion pounds ($1.98 billion) a year, the Telegraph reported.

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