Babcock Dounreay Partnership bids for Dounreay nuclear decommissioning contract
Babcock Dounreay Partnership, a consortium of Babcock International Group, CH2M HILL and URS, has been short-listed by the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to bid for the management and operations contract at Dounreay, originally the UK’s centre of fast reactor research and development and now Scotland’s largest nuclear clean-up and demolition project.  Dounreay is currently managed by a Site Licence Company (SLC) called DSRL (Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd). Read it all..

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Costain has been awarded by Magnox South Ltd a framework contract for the delivery of Fuel Element Debris (”FED”) Dissolution at Bradwell nuclear power station. Read it all..

The new DSRL Suppliers pages  have gone live on their website,  to view  please follow this link

Information can be found on contract opportunities, instructions on how to express an interest and details of our procurement strategy.

These pages replace the DSRL suppliers information previously found on the UKAEA website.

The NDA has appointed Bruce McKirdy as the Managing Director of its Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD).

The NDA is the organisation responsible for implementation of geological disposal in the UK and the RWMD is being formed into a wholly owned subsidiary of the NDA. In due course it will become the NDA’s Site Licence Company responsible for delivering a Geological Disposal Facility.

Bruce has spent over twenty five years within the UK nuclear industry and over 10 years experience in geological disposal, most recently leading RWMD. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has experience in all aspects of radioactive waste management including development and assessment of geological repository concepts and R & D related to long-term waste management.

Bruce said:

“I am delighted to have been given this opportunity and look forward to continuing our work with a range of stakeholders including Government, local communities and the nuclear industry to deliver geological disposal for higher activity radioactive wastes.”

AMEC Press Release

AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, and Energy Solutions , the international nuclear services company, have formed a joint venture to bid for the Parent Body Organisation (PBO) contract at Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL). The joint venture, which will be called Caithness Solutions Limited, brings together two companies with unrivalled experience in the international nuclear decommissioning market as well as in other key industrial sectors. Read it all..

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The original stack from the Dounreay Fast Reactor has ended its days as a pile of scrap metal.

Before the cutting work could start, Dounreay workers climbed inside the stack to decontaminate the interior, and remove the remaining pipe work. Read it all..

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One of the largest asbestos removal projects in Europe has just been completed as part of decommissioning the Calder Hall nuclear power station at a cost of £26m. Read it all..

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Trawsfynydd celebrated a major milestone yesterday when its new Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) Store was officially opened – marking a first for a Magnox site. Read it all..

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has announced the dates for the Dounreay Parent Body Organisation (PBO) Competition Industry Event. Read it all..

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One of the most demanding clean-up jobs ever undertaken in the history of nuclear energy is gathering pace. It involves the recovery and packaging of more than 1500 tonnes of radioactive waste that has lain submerged for up to 50 years in the ground beneath Britain’s abandoned experiment with fast reactors at Dounreay. Read it all..