Consortium awarded £120m Sellafield contract

A CONSORTIUM is celebrating winning a £120m four-year decommissioning contract at Sellafield.

Cumbria Nuclear Solutions, which comprises James Fisher Nuclear, React Engineering, Shepley Engineers, Stobbarts, WYG Engineering and Westinghouse Electric Company, was awarded the Decommissioning Framework Agreement by Sellafield. 

CNSL has the ability to draw on a combined resource pool of around 16,500 staff.  The latest contract award follows the completion of the first four-year Decommissioning Framework Agreement which CNSL won against tough competition in 2006. 

During the first framework the team delivered a number of projects including the deployment of innovative size-reduction techniques and contamination control measures to strip out a highly active cell,  large enough to house the Statue of Liberty.

Other projects included the removal of redundant ventilation systems, R&D to develop remote and semi-remote handling technology, and the design, manufacture, trialling and deployment of equipment for the retrievals of sludge samples from a sludge storage tank.

Phil Gerrard of James Fisher Nuclear said “CNSL has demonstrated it is a flexible team which can successfully tackle a wide range of decommissioning projects.  I am looking forward to a fresh batch of challenging projects from the new framework.”

Mike Tynan, managing director for Westinghouse in the UK said  “It is great news that CNSL has been selected to deliver this contract, and we are looking forward to bringing Westinghouse’s experience in the decommissioning and dismantling of nuclear reactors, and other nuclear facilities, to support the team in this important work.”

The framework is estimated to be worth around £30m per year over four years.