Sellafield Ltd. said this week it saved nearly $400,000 by using an advanced rolling scaffolding in the decommissioning of the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond at the Sellafield site.
The scaffolding is easy to assemble, lightweight, and relatively inexpensive, according to a Sellafield press release. Money savings are derived from the work hours saved in assembly and the reduced amount of equipment necessary for the structure.
The total amount spent on the scaffolding was not immediately known.
“There’s a complex jigsaw of of pieces that need to be in place to decommission FGMSP and the erection of the rolling scaffolding means we can take one step closer to seeing the picture in the box,” project team member Ryan Blinco said in the release.
The First Generation Magnox Storage Pond was a component of the Magnox Storage and Decanning Facility, which was built starting in the 1950s to hold irraddiated fuel from Magnox reactors and to extract the fuel cladding ahead of fuel reprocessing. Fuel was last placed in the pond in 1992.
The pond is a priority project among the various facilities being decomissioned at Sellafield, according to the press release.
