By David Siddall

Published at 15:44, Wednesday, 17 December 2008

URS’ Washington Division, which leads Sellafield’s Nuclear Management Partners, has been selected for a major nuclear clean-up contract in the United States.

Tom Zarges: New contract

The US Department of Energy announced that it has awarded a $3.3 billion contract to manage the liquid waste at the Savannah River Site to Savannah River Remediation, a group led by URS Washington which also includes AREVA, another partner in NMP.

Tom Zarges, president of URS Washington, who also chairs NMP, said: “URS has a long history of supporting the DOE’s environmental management and nuclear operations programmes and has managed many successful projects at the Savannah River Site. The SRR team has an unequalled track record in managing tanks and tank closure in the DOE complex”.

This is the second major contract which URS Washington has won in recent weeks. Last month, the USA-RS partnership, a group led by URS Washington, was awarded a $2.5 billion contract to manage and operate the used nuclear fuel repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

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