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RBG, the leading provider of fabric maintenance and construction support to the global energy industry, has secured a multi-million pound contract to provide a range of third party vendor inspection and quality related services to a number of nuclear facilities.

The three-year contract, awarded by Magnox, Springfields, Sellafield, INS, NNL, LLWR, DSRL and RSRL, has a one-year extension option and is worth approximately £8.8m.

RBG  who was formed in 2005 through the merger of Mach-ten, MacGregor Energy Services and Rigblast Group, will provide qualified discipline engineers, auditors and inspection personnel to ensure all decommissioned and new build works are carried out in accordance with the required standards and specifications. The RBG team will carry out both on and offsite duties at various supplier sites worldwide. The contract will see RBG’s involvement from the initial design review of equipment through to final acceptance and installation.

RBG was awarded the contract based on its experience and its ability to adapt and customise service delivery, whilst taking into account the very specific requirements of the nuclear industry. RBG’s approach included a solid transition plan which detailed all potential risks and corresponding mitigations.

Commenting on the contract, Doug Bolton, RBG’s Quality Services Manager said: “This contract award is a fantastic achievement and testament to the hard work and commitment of all those involved. RBG has many years of experience in the nuclear industry but we also utilise and adapt skill sets developed in other sectors, adding significant value and flexibility to our proposition.”

RBG has been involved in the nuclear industry for over 10 years, during which time it has achieved an unprecedented safety record with an estimated 100,000 man hours incident free. As well as providing inspection personnel for both on- and offsite works, RBG has also provided the nuclear industry with non destructive testing services.

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Norman Harrison announced as Nuclear Institute President

THE NUCLEAR INSITUTE (NI) has announced that Norman Harrison has been appointed as the organisation’s President.

Norman will take over with immediate effect from Paul Thomas who has been the President of the NI since 2008. Read it all..

The Magnox North and Magnox South sites are now all managed by Magnox Limited. Their work includes optimising the generation of electricity at Wylfa and Oldbury, facing up to the challenge of accelerating the move to Care and Maintenance at Bradwell and Trawsfynydd, and making sure that we continue to deliver value for money at the other sites in the business.

For the next few months the Magnox North and Magnox South site groups will be operated as Business Groups of Magnox Limited.

Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd wants to restore an area of land designated as a rubble dump during the construction and operation phases of the site. Read it all..

Press Release 03/01/2011

On 31 December 2010, EDF Group allocated 50% of the RTE shares to its dedicated assets portfolio set aside to cover future costs related to the decommissioning costs of nuclear plants and the downstream fuel cycle. This decision, approved by EDF’s Board of Directors on 14 December 2010, received the necessary administrative approvals. As a result of this decision, RTE remains wholly-owned by EDF. Read it all..

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..

Magnox North Chapelcross’s decommissioning programme hit a significant milestone this week as the 50th Flask was safely shipped to the Sellafield Site in Cumbria for reprocessing.

Following formal permission to start defuelling from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) in July 2009, and the first element being removed from the reactor core just over a year ago on Monday 18th August 2009 there has been consistent progress made with the defuelling programme at the Chapelcross Site. 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.

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..