Decommissioning progress on one of Sellafield’s oldest nuclear plants has taken a giant step forward with three significant new contracts, totaling over £160m, put in place to enable radioactive waste retrievals.

The Pile Fuel Cladding Silo (PFCS) is almost 60 years old and contains over 4000m3 of historic radioactive waste which has to be retrieved from the facility as part of the decommissioning work. Read it all..

Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has been appointed as outsourced advisors to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on its national portfolio which combined with its subsidiary property company, comprises a 2,900 hectare (7,150 acre) estate valued at c£500m. Read it all..

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has informed Westinghouse that it has agreed to close a ‘regulatory issue’ raised against its AP1000 reactor design. The regulatory issue, opened in February 2010 by ONR’s predecessor organisation (HSE’s Nuclear Directorate) concerned the AP1000’s civil structures, which were assessed by the regulator as part of the Generic Design Assessment, run jointly by ONR and the Environment Agency.

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