A consortium led by US-based engineering and technology company Amentum has won a new contract valued at up to $207m (€180m) to provide programme management and technical solutions for planning and development of nuclear new build in the Netherlands.
The Nexus-NL consortium comprises of Amentum, Netherlands-based design, engineering and management consulting company Arcadis, Belgian engineering company Tractebel, and NRG Pallas, the Dutch nuclear research and production company that operates the High Flux Reactor at Petten and is building the new Pallas research reactor on the same site.
The consortium will work on the development of up to two new gigawatt-scale power plants to support the nation’s strategies for decarbonisation and energy security and will support the Nuclear Energy Organisation Netherlands (NEO NL), which will be established next month.
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