27 Apr (NucNet): Sweden-based nuclear services company Studsvik has won a 14 million pounds (GBP) (28 million US dollars, 20 million euros) contract to design and build a new facility to manage waste associated with an old facility at British Nuclear Group’s Sellafield site in north-west England.
The initial contract is valued at GBP 2 million for the next three months pending confirmation of the main contract. The overall expected contract value will exceed GBP 14 million over two years.
The old facility was built in 1951 and has been used for the interim storage of beta/gamma waste into eight shielded cells. The facility stopped receiving waste in 1996.
Studsvik will build a new facility over the eight cells. Waste will be retrieved from the cells and its volume reduced before it is placed into liners for disposal as either intermediate-level waste or low-level waste.
British Nuclear Group is responsible to the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for the operation, maintenance and clean-up of the Sellafield site.
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Studsvik Wins Japan Core Monitoring Software Contract (World Nuclear Review No. 41, 12 October 2006)
NDA Announces Six Bidders For Sellafield Contract (World Nuclear Review No. 13, 30 March 2007)
