Under several new contracts Babcock International is to provide radiometric services to Sellafield and waste disposal services to the UK's Magnox reactors.
The company has won four large contracts to supply radiometric services support at Sellafield. The total value of the contracts over their lifetime is estimated at £86million.
Babcock will be providing nuclear material assay (NMA) maintenance delivery and support; maintenance delivery and workshop repairs for installed and portable radiological protection instrumentation (IRPI and PRPI); calibration and repair of maintenance and test equipment (MTE); and specialist technical and consultancy support to Sellafield for ad-hoc specialist measurements.
In delivering these services, Babcock will be required to ensure safety complianceand to maintain ongoing operations across the site, and to provide a maintenance and obsolescence management programme for a number of critical assets.
The NMA, RPI and MTE contracts are awarded for a duration up to 12 years, a significant increase on the current three year contracts for these services, which are held by Babcock and expire in March this year. The specialist measurements contract (also currently held by Babcock) is awarded as a four year framework agreement.
Magnox ILW management framework contract
Babcock has also been awarded a framework contract by Magnox Ltd for the retrieval and processing of both wet and solid intermediate level radioactive waste (ILW) across all the Magnox sites in the UK.
Work to be carried out under the framework contract will include the supply of equipment and technical support in the form of an integrated solution to specific project requirements, to retrieve and process the various waste streams for storage in self-shielding waste containers for final disposal, as part of the ILW Mini Stores Management Programme. The work will be carried out across the Magnox sites, including Berkeley, Bradwell, Dungeness A, Hinkley Point A, Sizewell A, Chapelcross, Oldbury, Wylfa, Trawsfynydd and Hunterston A. The framework contract is part of a new approach being taken by Magnox to contract projects on an end-to-end basis for the safe and cost-effective management of ILW.
Babcock is one of six companies to be awarded a framework contract by Magnox for ILW retrieval and processing, and one of three to have secured a contract for both solid and wet wastes. This contract now enables the selected companies to bid for specific projects within this area of the Magnox ILW Management Programme (MIMP). The value of the framework contract (within which individual projects are competed) is expected to be £300 million over ten years. Bids for the first projects under the contract are now being prepared.
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