Carillion wins £118m contract for nuclear store to support decommissioning

09/09/2005

Support services and construction company Carillion has secured an £118 million contract with British Nuclear Group to construct a store at Sellafield, Cumbria, for materials arising from decommissioning.

Carillion has been working with British Nuclear Group on the Sellafield Product and Residue Store (SPRS) since 2003 to develop the design and construction methodology to ensure the facility can be delivered on time and to budget. This contract is the first major construction contract to be let since the formation of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, for whom British Nuclear Group now manages and operates the Sellafield site.

One of the key purposes of the store is to accommodate materials already at Sellafield which need to be retrieved from older facilities, repackaged and placed in a modern facility. It will receive materials recovered from historic fuel manufacturing buildings that are now being decommissioned. Work on the three-year contract will start this month.

Carillion chief executive John McDonough said: “We are delighted to have secured this contract with British Nuclear Group with whom we share a common approach to the delivery of high quality, value for money solutions to the most stringent safety and environmental standards.”

Tom Gilroy, SPRS project manager said: “This is a very important project for the Sellafield site. The store will be built to exacting standards and will afford an enhanced level of protection and security for nuclear materials.”