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| Jacobs receives contracts from British Nuclear Group and Honda Pasadena-based Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced that it has received a contract to provide resource enhancement services to the Nuclear Decommissioning and Major Projects Department (ND&MPD) of British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd (BNGSL) on the delivery of major projects at the Sellafield and Capenhurst sites. ND&MPD currently has over 4,000 staff members executing projects as part of a $26 billion lifetime plan for cleanup. In the next financial year, ND&MPD will oversee $1.2 billion in spending. Sellafield is the U.K.'s largest nuclear reservation, where spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed and recovered nuclear material is developed into new nuclear fuel. Concurrent with the reprocessing and fuel manufacture operations, the site is undergoing a program of cleanup of legacy wastes and facilities shutdown. Capenhurst is home to the world's first gaseous diffusion plant decommissioning project. It also houses modernized and upgraded facilities in the former diffusion plant to store uranic materials prior to their long-term reuse within the nuclear fuel cycle. Now owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the combined facilities employ more than 12,000 people and are managed by British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd. Jacobs will provide a range of project delivery services to support NDA and BNGSL efforts to accelerate facility cleanup with the main objective to promote faster and less expensive delivery of cleanup and construction projects at the site. Jacobs also announced that it received a contract from Honda R&D Co. Ltd. to design and construct an automotive wind tunnel in Japan to test full-scale vehicles. The test programs in this new wind tunnel will be dedicated to vehicle development, fuel efficiency, and reduced emissions. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |