Dounreay, Harwell and Winfrith Contracts to be Competed

December 8, 2008

As the NDA’s current contractor for the management and operation of Dounreay, Harwell and Winfrith, UKAEA is pleased that the competition arrangements for those sites are now clear. 

Working with our partners, CH2MHILL and AMEC, UKAEA has demonstrated its expertise in delivering the safe and responsible decommissioning of these sites, in accordance with the NDA’s programmes, using the very best industry practice.

Together with those partners, we have set up the Pentland Alliance as the vehicle for our bid for the Dounreay contract.

In the meantime, our focus remains the continuing safe delivery of our decommissioning programmes at all the sites managed by UKAEA on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority – Dounreay, Harwell and Winfrith.

Note to Editors:

  • UKAEA is responsible for the clean-up of its former nuclear research sites at Dounreay, Harwell and Winfrith. It also carries out the national fusion research programme at Culham, and manages the international JET facility there – the world’s leading fusion research project.
  • With more than 50 years of experience in nuclear site management, it has proven capability in dealing with some of the nuclear industry’s oldest and most complex facilities, and in all phases of site restoration – from programme planning, facility decommissioning, waste management and land remediation, through to release for regeneration. Since April 2005, UKAEA has worked under contract to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on its nuclear sites.

UKAEA group comprises:

- a commercial arm, in the form of a subsidiary company, responsible for the management of NDA sites, and with increasing commercial contracts for decommissioning and nuclear consulting in the UK and overseas;
- Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL), the site licence company undertaking the decommissioning of Dounreay; and
- a continuing Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) covering those UKAEA functions which are expected to remain in the public sector for the longer term, including fusion research and input to the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus joint venture.

  • A new site licence company, Research Sites Restoration Ltd (RSRL), is expected to be licensed in early 2009 to undertake the decommissioning programmes at Harwell and Winfrith

 For more information please contact:  Angela Vincent, Harwell Communications Manager