DALLAS, Aug. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J)
was selected to lead two decommissioning projects at the Dounreay
nuclear site in Scotland, U.K.,
which Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) estimates to have a
combined value of $15.9 million
(£11.2 million).
Jacobs will upgrade the ventilation systems for the Prototype
Fast Reactor (PFR) under a $9.94
million (£7 million) contract from DSRL, the company
responsible for cleaning up the site, on behalf of the Nuclear
Decommissioning Authority.
DSRL has also chosen Jacobs to develop the decommissioning
strategy for the Fast Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant (FRFRP) under
a contract worth $5.96 million (£4.2
million).
"We will deploy our full range of project management, technical
and delivery capabilities for these projects, which involve some of
the most challenging buildings at Dounreay and are crucial to
achieve the scheduled interim end state," said Jacobs Energy,
Security and Technology Senior Vice President Karen Wiemelt. "These projects continue the
complex work Jacobs has performed to make the site and surrounding
areas safe and clean for future generations."
DSRL Head of Reactors Phil Cartwright said: "At PFR there are a
number of unique decommissioning challenges. Replacement of the
ventilation system will enable us to safely complete the
decommissioning work, whilst ensuring the required environmental
controls are in place, over the next 10-15 years."
The scope of the PFR project includes removal of the existing
vent plant and design, manufacturing, testing, installation and
commissioning of a new discharge stack, new supply and extract
fans, new HEPA filters, replacement of containment dampers,
discharge contamination monitoring equipment and a new tritium
monitoring system. Designed in the early 1960s, the PFR was a
MOX-fueled, liquid sodium-cooled fast reactor, which began
supplying the National Grid in January
1975 and was taken offline in 1994.
The FRFRP, built in the 1950s to reprocess spent fuel from the
U.K.'s experimental fast reactors, ceased operations in the
mid-1990s.
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