£400 million clean-up project on Europe’s largest nuclear site in Cumbria has created around
175 new highly skilled jobs at the Interserve Pioneer Point facility in Cheshire.

Interserve Industrial who were awarded a contract with process engineering contractor Costain
Oil & Gas Process Ltd, principal contractor for the Evaporator D project at the Sellafield nuclear
site in September last year, have now taken over space in a large indoor facility located at the
230,000 sq ft Pioneer Point facility, opposite Interserve’s existing facility on the Poole Hall Road
Industrial Estate to carry out the module assembly and testing work.

Ellesmere Port and Neston MP Andrew Miller said: “British engineering is alive and well here in
Ellesmere Port and I am sure the skilled workforce for which we are well known will make an
important contribution to the future of Sellafield and the nuclear industry.”

Evaporator D, a new Highly Active (HA) Liquid Evaporator is the largest nuclear project in
Europe and will provide additional capacity to support the site’s existing evaporators, which play
a pivotal role in the delivery of reprocessing, historic clean up and hazard reduction across the
Sellafield site.

The modules contain the heart of the Evaporator D project process, the largest of which will
weigh in at an impressive 500 tonnes. Modules consist of structural steel, stainless steel pipe
work vessels and equipment and will be fabricated at the dedicated Interserve facility at Poole
Hall Road.

Each module will be built on support stools to allow clearance from the ground in order for the
self propelled module transporter units to lift the module when it has been completed. In all, 11
modules will then be packed prior to being transported to Ellesmere Port for shipment to the
Sellafield Site.

Interserve Operation Director, Mr James Lord said: “Interserve is proud to be involved with this
nuclear asset, new build project for Sellafield Ltd. Interserve has a strong nuclear background
and is providing the construction services for these complex nuclear grade modules. This is the
first time a nuclear plant of this size has been modularised in the UK and Interserve is leveraging
its 30 year nuclear experience and self delivered services to give a comprehensive solution”.