European Nuclear Engineers Form a Consortium.

[NNadir]

A nuclear engineering partnership has been set up by Atkins and Assystem to target new nuclear power plans worldwide.



The new 50-50 joint venture, to be known as the Nuclear Atkins Assystem Alliance, is already bidding for work around the world.

By joining forces for work outside their home territories of the UK and France, Atkins and Assystem hope to take advantage of their combined workforce of 27,000 - including 3000 nuclear specialists. They are aiming to take a substantial part of the estimated $16-20 billion market for consultancy, design and engineering among countries introducing nuclear power for the first time. This figure represents about 20% of the total spend on nuclear power in those countries over the next 20 years, said Atkins' nuclear strategy director, Phil Malem.

Each company will continue to operate independently in their home market and the tie-in prohibits them from forming other joint ventures with other firms. The joint venture will be headquartered in France and is likely to be active in the many territories where the firms have a presence.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C_Tie_in_for_European_nuclear_engineers_1412101.html">Tie-in for European nuclear engineers.

There's no word yet on whether the 27,000 nuclear engineers will each get 27,000 copies of cut and paste blog posts emailed to them proving that nuclear power is dead.