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Aker Kvaerner wins nuclear decommissioning contract in Scotland

Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a GBP 16 million contract by Magnox Electric Limited, to design, build and install a plant for the retrieval and encapsulation of wet intermediate level wastes (ILW) at Hunterston A Site in West Kilbride, Scotland. The project is part of the site's nuclear decommissioning programme and will commence immediately with a 38-month project duration. Plant start up is expected 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 retrieval and cementatious encapsulation of the wet ILW wastes.



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