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• Jacobs Buys Into Consortium Operating U.K. Nuke Weapons Site

  - 2009-01-08

  In a deal that raised some eyebrows in the British media, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced last month it was buying a one-third share in AWE Management Limited--the operator of Britain's nuclear weapons facility--from state-owned British Nuclear Fuels plc. Some U.K. newspapers questioned the deal because...

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• EnergySolutions reports doubled profits

  - 2008-08-12

  EnergySolutions Inc. reported Monday that the company's net income for the second quarter was $12.6 million, or $0.14 per share, more than double the $6 million reported for the same quarter a year ago. The company attributed the improved profits to its international operations, which exceeded projected performance...

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• UK Department for Business

  - 2008-06-23

  John Edwards has been appointed as director general, finance at the UK Department for Business. Edwards was group finance director at British Nuclear Fuels prior to his new appointment.

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• Nuclear reactor fire cover-up for 50 years

  - 2007-10-07

  :: WINDSCALE Officials covered up the full extent of radioactive contamination from Britain's worst ever nuclear accident. A new study, funded by British Nuclear Fuels, shows radioactive pollution from the Windscale fire, which broke out 50 years ago on Tuesday, extending "further east than accepted in previous assessments",...

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• EnergySolutions to acquire Brit firm

  - 2007-06-07

  EnergySolutions said Wednesday that it has reached an agreement to acquire a British company that holds contracts to operate and decommission 10 nuclear sites with 22 reactors in the United Kingdom. Utah-based EnergySolutions will acquire Reactor Sites Management Co. Ltd. from British Nuclear Fuels BNFL, the holding company...

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• BNFL hopes to raise [pound]250m from auction

  - 2006-12-22

  British Nuclear Fuels is expected to raise up to [pound]250m from the sale of its Magnox reactors business in an auction to be handled by NM Rothschild and which it hopes to complete in the first half of 2007. The last of the 10 Magnox sites is scheduled to halt...

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• Mitsubishi Heavy in final nuclear talks with France's Areva

  - 2006-10-15

  TOKYO AFP — Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy has entered the final stage of talks with French giant Areva on a tie-up to build nuclear power reactors in the face of growing competition, a report says. The alliance is aimed at Toshiba Corp, which this year bought US power plant maker Westinghouse...

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• US rivals eye BNG acquisition

  - 2006-09-18

  A new player has emerged in the bid to buy the British Nuclear Group BNG from British Nuclear Fuels BNFL. A 400m [pounds sterling] ($746m) offer had been tabled by engineering and construction company Fluor earlier this month. However, as C&I went to press, a higher counter bid from EnergySolutions,...

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• BNFL to be disbanded

  - 2006-07-17

  British Nuclear Fuels BNFL, the government-owned nuclear group, will cease to exist by the end of 2007. Most its businesses, including cleanup company British Nuclear Group and US-based reactor manufacturer Westinghouse, will be sold by then.

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• Campaign to discredit wind blows to NSW.

  - 2006-05-18

  Byline: Wendy Frew May 18, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Victorian campaign tactics against wind power are being adopted by some groups in New South Wales. An association of anti-wind farm groups in Victoria known as Landscape Guardians...

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