In a deal that raised some eyebrows in the British media, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced last month it was buying a one-third share in AWE Management Limited--the operator of Britain's nuclear weapons facility--from state-owned British Nuclear Fuels plc. Some U.K. newspapers questioned the deal because it means two American companies--Jacobs and Lockheed Martin [LMT]--now effectively control operations at the country's sole nuclear weapons lab, which is called the Atomic Weapons Establishment. The third company in the operating consortium, known…
Jacobs Buys Into Consortium Operating U.K. Nuke Weapons Site
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