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| Amec NNC acquires Romanian nuclear company Amec NNC, the subsidiary company of AMEC Nuclear Holdings Ltd, has acquired 50.2 per cent of the Romanian nuclear company Stevenson & Associates SRL (S&A –Ro). The acquisition of the majority shareholding in the company, which has 10 employees and was established in Bucharest in 1993, further strengthens Amec NNC’s position within the Romanian nuclear industry. The company provides project management services and specialist civil and mechanical engineering expertise primarily for the Cernavoda Unit 1 and Unit 2 CANDU – 6 type nuclear power stations in the south east of Romania and in addition to providing the full range of services to the Romanian nuclear industry, they have completed projects for Slovakia, Hungary, China, the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA. S&A - Ro has also recently won contracts to support the new Pebble-Bed modular design reactor currently under design in South Africa and for a seismic safety assessment for the Goesgen nuclear power station in Switzerland. The Romanian government is continuing its policy of supporting nuclear industry as part of the sustainable development of the country. Five identical 700MWe CANDU-6 units, designed by Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) were originally planned at the Cernavoda site during the 1980s but work was slow. In 1991 the programme was reviewed and, following recommendations from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the project for Unit 1 was completed with commercial operation starting on December 1996. Commissioning of Unit 2 is well underway, with full operation currently scheduled for 2007. Technical and financial feasibility studies for the completion of Units 3 and 4 are now underway. Amec NNC has been working in Eastern Europe since the early 1990’s and currently manages both an EBRD Decommissioning Project Management Unit and TACIS On-Site Assistance projects. Amec employs 45, 000 people in more than 40 countries, generating annual revenues of around £5 billion. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |