UK Capabilities Archives

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Programme and Technical Requirements Framework, UK Radioactive Waste Management (RWM)

In August 2020, Nuclear Waste Services, formerly known as UK Radioactive Waste Management, awarded a 2+1+1 year contract valued at £4.8 million to Amentum to support the Technical Requirements Programme to develop the UK’s Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). This contract enables Amentum to support Nuclear Waste Services with the next level of planning, design, and

May 2, 2022 No Comments

Management & Operation of Sellafield Ltd, UK

Amentum-led global nuclear industry consortium, Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), was awarded a multi-billion pound contract to manage and operate the Sellafield site in West Cumbria, England, UK. The site is one of the UK’s largest industrial and construction sites and widely regarded as the world’s most complex and challenging nuclear site. The site has 1,200

March 22, 2022 No Comments

Management & Operations of LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR), UK

Amentum was the majority partner of the consortium responsible for the management and operation of the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) in West Cumbria, UK and the development and implementation of the National Low Level Waste Programme. LLWR is the national facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste in the UK. Upon contract

March 21, 2022 No Comments

Aerial PCM Mag soil removal towards Sellafield

Decommissioning Plutonium Contaminated Material Facilities at the LLWR, UK

Amentum managed the successful delivery of the Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) Decommissioning Programme at the Low Level Waste Repository site (LLWR), including the decommissioning and demolition of five contaminated magazines and seven support facilities. The programme was undertaken from 2013 to 2019 and was valued at £100 million. The magazines held PCM generated from operations

March 21, 2022 No Comments

Exotics Fuel Programme, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd

Under Amentum’s leadership, the highly prioritised Exotics and Out of Reactor Breeder Fuels Programme was successfully delivered from the Dounreay Site in Scotland. The task was to transport over 13 tonnes of ‘exotic’ fuel (unirradiated plutonium and uranium) material from Dounreay to Sellafield and other domestic and international locations for repurposing. Completion of this activity

March 4, 2022 No Comments

End State Contract for Dounreay Site Restoraton Ltd, UK

Amentum was a part of a consortium who were awarded the End State contract by Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd in 2012. The contract included clean-up and demolition of the UK’s former fast reactor research and development centre, decommissioning of 35 separate but integrated projects – all designed to reduce site environmental risk to acceptable levels

March 4, 2022 No Comments

Construction of Vault 9, LLWR, UK

In 2008, the Amentum-led team managing the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) had an urgent task to address capacity issues at the site. With disposal capacity in Vault 8 almost full (approximately 350 container spaces left) and waste arising at a phenomenal rate per year (over 700 containers), immediate action was required to alleviate backlog

March 4, 2022 No Comments

Enriched Uranium Components Programme

Amentum is the Delivery Partner on the Enriched Uranium Components Programme at the Aldermaston site. Amentum is the programme integration partner, managing and delivering the scope of multiple independent yet interconnected projects. This includes: Completion of the Material Handling Store. Repacking of Enriched Uranium in readiness for shipment. Shipment of the material to a new

May 25, 2021 No Comments

Construction of Low-Level Waste Vaults at Dounreay

As part of the Parent Body Organisation (PBO) at Dounreay Site Restauration Ltd (DSRL) Amentum was responsible for management of the construction of the unique near surface disposal vaults adjacent to the site. The two vaults, at a capital construction value of £30m, were the first to be commissioned in Scotland to manage low level

March 19, 2021 No Comments

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