Magnox has awarded a framework contract worth £288 million over ten years for the delivery of construction, infrastructure and maintenance projects across all ten of its nuclear sites in the UK..
The chosen organisations, Costain Group and Balfour Beatty, will carry out all the project work including the design, construction and maintenance of permanent buildings and structures, infrastructure maintenance and extension work incorporating construction, civil engineering structures and ground work projects. The contract will run initially for five years, with the option to be extended by a further five.
Magnox programme director, Alan Bladon, said: “Construction, infrastructure and maintenance will form a major part of the work to deliver Magnox sites into a state of care and maintenance. Most people associate decommissioning with demolition, but there is also a requirement to build additional facilities which will help reduce the hazards associated with the legacy from nuclear generation on our sites.”
Magnox manages the ten sites under contract to the owner, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. It is responsible for electricity generation at Wylfa, Oldbury and Maentwrog, defuelling at Chapelcross, Dungeness A and Sizewell A, and the decommissioning of Hunterston A, Berkeley, Hinkley Point A, Bradwell and Trawsfynydd.
