Contracts for Sellafield waste storage boxes

摘要

Darchem Engineering Ltd and Metalcraft have both been awarded separate contracts, potentially valued at £50 million each, for the provision of stainless steel storage containers for nuclear waste at the UK's Sellafield site in Cumbria. The boxes, with a capacity of three cubic metres, will be used to store, safely and securely, historic intermediate-level waste (ILW) to be retrieved from the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo (PFCS) at the Sellafield site. The silo has six compartments and currently holds more than 3200 cubic metres of waste. Sellafield Ltd said that in the first phase of the contracts, Darchem and Metalcraft will have to prove volume production can be achieved to the required quality and throughput rate. The second phase for steady-state volume production to manufacture - in total some 2200 boxes - will then be awarded subject to performance, it said.