Nuclear deal clinched

Oct 6 2007 by Iain Laing, The Journal

ENGINEERING firm Aker Kvaerner has won a £16m contract with Magnox Electric to help decommission a Scottish nuclear power plant.

The Stockton business will lead on design, building and installation of a plant for the retrieval of waste at Hunterston in Ayrshire, Scotland.

The 38-month project will mean the plant is expected to be up and running in July 2010. The scope of the contract includes engineering design from Aker Kvaerner’s Stockton and Warrington offices, as well as the manufacture, construction, site commissioning, and safety case work for a facility that will carry out the safe collection of waste.

Dave Ley, Aker Kvaerner Engineering Services president, said: “Aker Kvaerner has applied extensive design, engineering and practical experience in the handling of Magnox sludges and effluents, and has been able to offer a unique and robust retrieval and encapsulation solution for the Hunterston A wet wastes.”

The firm and joint venture partnerships have secured more than £50m of nuclear services work this year.