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Decommissioning and Liabilities Management
Contracts include:
AEA TECHNOLOGY NUCLEAR PROGRAMMES, Harwell
- Consultancy Support to AEAT
- B220 Glovebox
Liability Review
- B220 Safety Case Support
- Decommissioning Option
studies on the B220 Am/Be Process Cells
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AWE
 Glovebox
Decommissioning Tooling and Methodology Support.
Nuclear Technologies were
to consider the current decommissioning projects
examining which techniques / tooling are appropriate
for the size reduction and handling of waste items
with a view to reducing the degree of close manual
intervention. The emphasis was on proven systems
from both within the nuclear industry and transferring
technology from outside industries. This initial
phase of the project was used to identify techniques
/ tooling to be given further detailed consideration
with a view to their use in current and future
decommissioning campaigns. An options generation
workshop was held to help to identify tooling and
technologies that could be considered for further
investigation. Those tooling / techniques taken
forward from the earlier phase were examined in
more detail in the context of their use for the
AWE decommissioning programme. |
BRITISH NUCLEAR GROUP
(formerly BNFL)
We have a team developing the Baseline Decommissioning
Plans and Near Term Work Plans for PSG (Project Services
Group). This work involves optioneering to determine
the preferred technical approach and decommissioning
strategy. From this strategy the project activities required
to decommission the facility were identified and budget
estimates made of resources required and amounts of waste
that would result. Recommendations were made regarding
the most appropriate order in which to carry out the
decommissioning activities. This work is being undertaken
through the supply of technical authors, cost engineers
and project planners at: –
- Berkeley Power Station and Technology
Centre
- Trawsfynnyd Power Station
- Calderhall Power
Station
- Capenhurst Power Station
- Chapelcross Power
Station
- Hunterston Power Station
- Hinkley Point Power
Station
- Oldbury Power Station
- Dungeness A Power Station
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EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH (CERN)
 Study
of Decay Tube Dismantling - The CERN Neutrinos to Gran
Sasso (CNGS) project is presently in construction
phase to study neutrino oscillations in a long base-line
experiment. High energy protons are extracted and
transported through a 727m long transfer line. The
particles created decay in a 1km long tube
(decay tube) to produce a beam of neutrinos which then
travel 730 km through the earth towards a detector
at the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy. Nuclear Technologies
were contracted to provide a feasibility study to ascertain
the best
method of dismantling the underground steel decay tube,
which will become radioactive and has to be removed
from the underground tunnels at the end of the CNGS
operation.
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