Nuclear Waste Services recently put out the equivalent of a request for information for companies interested in building a deep geologic repository for nuclear waste in the United Kingdom.
The repository, which Nuclear Waste Services calls a Geologic Disposal Facility, could be built under a future contract worth up to $1.6 billion over 10 or 15 years, according to a prior information notice published May 17 on the United Kingdom’s Find a Tender website.
Responses from interested parties are due June 28, according to the notice.
Nuclear Waste Services then will conduct one-on-one meetings with respondents, either virtually or in person. In-person sessions start the week of July 15 and virtual sessions were to follow on the week of July 22, according to the notice.
The government-owned company could put out a request for proposals as soon as May 24, 2025, according to last week’s prior information notice.
The U.K. government created Nuclear Waste Services in 2022, combining existing waste management programs at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority with groups responsible for low-level and geologic disposal facilities.
The U.K. has its own consent based siting program and is working now with three community organizations representing potential host sites for the repository in Allerdale, Mid Copeland, South Copeland and Theddlethorpe, according to a November report from the agency.
Nuclear Waste Services has said that a repository could notionally begin accepting intermediate level waste between 2050-2060 and high level waste and spent nuclear fuel by 2075.
