Cavendish Nuclear gets £2.8m Dounreay processing facility contract

Cavendish Nuclear has been awarded a £2.8m contract to deliver modifications to Dounreay’s processing facility which will support the strategy of decommissioning the site and reducing hazards.

The contract is to develop a scheme design and a Hazard and Operability Analysis 2 study for an extension to the processing facility within the Fuel Cycle Area and to modify existing equipment to enable the safe extraction and packaging of nuclear material ready for export from the site.

The contract is expected to last around 13 months and forms part of the Decommissioning Services Framework.

The work will be done in collaboration with Mott MacDonald and small-to-medium enterprises Alpha Engineering and 3T Safety Consultants, with support from Frazer-Nash.

Gary Ward, Cavendish Nuclear’s business unit director, said: “Along with our partners, we are pleased to have secured another important contract. This builds on our ongoing commitment to supporting Dounreay’s overarching priority to safely reduce the hazards on the site.”

Cavendish Nuclear is a wholly owned subsidiary of Babcock International Group.

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