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Team Wins $6B, 15-Year UK Site Nuclear Waste Cleanup Award
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Sellafield in England is one of Europe’s largest and most complex nuclear power development sites, which is now focused on safely managing and storing nuclear waste and cleaning up contaminated buildings and aging facilities.
Sellafield Ltd., the U.K. government-authorized company overseeing decommissioning of the Sellafield nuclear power and testing site in England, awarded a 15-year waste cleanup contract worth up to $6 billion to an international team including Amentum, AtkinsRéalis, Westinghouse Environmental Services, Altrad, Cavendish Nuclear and Shepley Engineers.
It will support continued radioactive waste retrieval and cleanup, and decommissioning of site facilities that date to the 1940s.
Sellafield Ltd. also awarded in October infrastructure support contracts at the site to UK-based firms Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction, totaling about $3.86 billion.
The company announced last month that cleanup teams have now successfully removed 70 tonnes of radioactive waste from Sellafield's Magnox Swarf Storage Silo–one of the site’s most hazardous legacy facilities, which it called "a significant step forward in the UK’s nuclear decommissioning mission."
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