The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said Tuesday it had issued a three-year extension for a partnership encompassing 17 companies performing cleanup activities at the Sellafield nuclear site.
The Decommissioning Delivery Partnership, formed in 2016, will now remain on the job at least through 2026, according to an NDA press release.
The partnership to date has provided £385 million worth of project work and 4.5 million hours without a lost-time accident, the release says. Among its milestones are teardown of the Windscale Pile Chimney and removal of waste and sludge from the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond.
After operating for decades in support of the United Kingdom’s nuclear weapons and power sectors, the Sellafield site today is in the end stage of its nuclear fuel reprocessing mission and is home to ongoing remediation overseen by the NDA-owned Sellafield Ltd.
The work handled by the Decommissioning Delivery Partnership is split into three “lots” covering different projects.
Lot 1 covers remediation, the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo, the Pile Fuel Storage Pond, and other sizable projects. The companies there are: Integrated Decommissioning Solutions (Atkins, Altrad Hertel, North West Projects, and Westlakes Engineering), Nexus Decommissioning Alliance (Costain, Mott Macdonald, Nuvia, and Squibb Group); ADAPT (Orano, Doosan, and Atkins); Cumbria Nuclear Solutions Ltd. (Jacobs, React, James Fisher Nuclear, Shepley Engineers, Westinghouse Electric Company, and WYG Engineering).
Lot 2 covers the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond. The company there is the Decommissioning Alliance (Jacobs, Atkins, Westinghouse Electric Co. UK Ltd.).
Lot 3 covers the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo. The company there is I3 Decommissioning Partners (Wood, Altrad Hertel, and Shepley Engineers).
Future work covered by these entities includes demolition and remediation of two reprocessing plants at Sellafield, the release says.
