| type="text/javascript"> | | | | In an interview with the Whitehaven News, Mr |
| A US nuclear company is bidding for lucrative | | | | Rahe explained that waste management company |
| contracts in Cumbria that could result in large | | | | Washington hopes to be awarded the tender for |
| numbers of new jobs for the region. | | | | the Drigg site and the contract for Sellafield |
| South Carolina-based Washington Group | | | | clean-up work when it is announced by the UK |
| International is currently in the running for deal | | | | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) next |
| with the Drigg low-level nuclear waste facility and | | | | year. |
| the Sellafield nuclear plant. | | | | Washington employs more than 24,000 people |
| Preston Rahe, Washington president for energy | | | | worldwide, in 30 different countries, and insists |
| and environment, is in the UK to support the | | | | that large quantities of new jobs will be created if |
| company's bid to assume the operation of the | | | | it is awarded the contracts. |
| Drigg site. | | | | |