Sellafield Ltd., the UK government-chartered company overseeing the closure of the Sellafield nuclear test and facility 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 Engineers and Shepley.
It will support the ongoing recovery and cleanup of radioactive waste and the decommissioning of facilities at the site dating back to the 1940s.
Sellafield Ltd. also awarded site infrastructure support contracts in October to UK firms Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction, totaling about $3.86 billion.
The company announced last month that cleanup crews have successfully removed 70 tonnes of radioactive waste from Magnox’s waste storage silo at Sellafield, one of the site’s most dangerous legacy facilities, which it called “an important step in the UK’s nuclear decommissioning mission”.
