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| Fluor and Project Services to help in Russian nuclear clean-up Fluor Limited, the United Kingdom operating arm of Fluor Corporation, and British Nuclear Group's specialist decommissioning business, Project Services, announced that their partnership has successfully secured a contract with the Russian Foundation for Environmental Safety of Power Engineering. Fluor Ltd and Project Services will assist with the decommissioning of the retired Russian nuclear-powered naval fleet and associated spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste management near the Barents Sea ports of Murmansk and Archangelsk. The contract involves Fluor and British Nuclear Group working alongside Russian government organisation, Rosatom, as it develops the Russian Federation's programme for cleaning up the former Soviet navy's nuclear legacy. The combined capabilities of Fluor's project management and decommissioning experience and British Nuclear Group's technical clean-up expertise will assist Rosatom in building its own framework for tackling the significant and highly complex radiological challenges that exist in the northwest region of Russia. Activities to establish this are funded by the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, managed by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to tackle the environmental hazards in Russia's north-west and with contributions from Canada, Denmark, the European Commission, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom and a donation of Belgium. The initial scope of work will include: establishing a computer-based program management tool to help guide the implementation of a comprehensive strategic master plan and providing project management and decommissioning technical support to the Russian Federation's efforts to develop an integrated work programme for the decommissioning of nuclear submarines and service vessels, the management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste, and the environmental rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated sites in northwest Russia. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |