About a dozen companies have begun delivering on an estimated £500 million socioeconomic benefit package as part of the decommissioning process at Britain’s Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site that will create 1,140 jobs per year until 2025.
The companies agreed to deliver the benefit package, termed the Decommissioning Delivery Partnership (DDP), in January as part of decommissioning Sellafield, one of Europe’s largest nuclear sites. Sellafield Ltd. is a subsidiary of the U.K.’s nuclear regulator, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The DDP helps cement transition of ownership to NDA, which took over the site on April 1. In an announcement Friday, Sellafield Ltd. released details of three areas of the partnership.
Termed Lot 1, the first area will revolve around site remediation. Among the partners signed on in this area are Atkins, Hertel, North West Projects, Westlakes Engineering, Nexus, and Areva. Work began April 4, and yearlong effort is expected to be worth between £10 million and £14 million.
Lot 2, which includes Jacobs, Atkins, and Westinghouse, will produce asset care, restoration, and commissioning work on the first-generation Magnox storage pond. That effort is estimated at £9 million.
Lot 3, which includes Amec Foster Wheeler, Hertel, and Shepley Engineers, will deliver installation of steel work, pipe work, SEP machine installation support, and manufacturing and construction tasks for the Magnox storage silo. That is expected to be worth between £6 million and £8 million.
