Exclusive: Firms in running to provide services including site development, planning and waste management on £10bn Wyfla nuclear project

Nuclear

Five engineers are set to fight it out for a key role supporting the development of Horizon Nuclear Power’s plans for its power station in Wylfa.

ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø understands Atkins, Jacobs, Hyder, Amec and Mott MacDonald are competing to be selected for a three-year framework with the developer, estimated to be worth tens of millions of pounds.

The winning bidders will provide services including site development, planning and waste management on the £10bn project.

Three or four firms are expected to be appointed to the framework.

A spokesman for Horizon declined to comment on the shortlist but said work had been ramping up since it was bought by Hitachi-GE last year and the firm is in the process of selecting a contractor for the main civils work.

Mott MacDonald and Amec declined to comment. Hyder, Atkins and Jacobs were unavailable for comment.