New £1.5bn nuclear contract set to create new construction jobs until 2018

07/10/2009 11:29:52

A new project, which has the potential to create hundreds of new construction and civil engineering jobs in the north of England, has been put out to tender, it has been confirmed.

Forming part of the government's programme of establishing a new generation of nuclear power plants across the UK, the £1.5 billion project will see a new nuclear waste processing plant built at Sellafield.

With the work set to be overseen by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, it has now been revealed that five companies are due to submit tenders for the work, with Australian and Singaporean firms joining European rivals in bidding for the lucrative contract.

According to Contract Journal, Sir Robert McAlpine and Laing O'Rourke are due to put in their tenders to the government body by the end of the week.

Work at Sellafield is expected to begin in April 2010 and continue until 2018, with hundreds of construction and civil engineering jobs supported over the period.

Meanwhile, the shadow energy and climate change secretary, Greg Clark, has stated that a Conservative government would work approve the construction to several new nuclear power plants, with this likely to lead to a construction recruitment boom in the energy sector.

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