As part of the contract, the consortium will be responsible for the planning, equipment manufacture and on-site segmentation of the reactor vessel internals and the reactor vessel, including peripheral structures. The unit 1 was closed in 2011.
The consortium comprises Nukem Technologies Engineering Services (NTES) and GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service in addition to Westinghouse Electric.
Westinghouse Central Europe vice-president and managing director Dr. Norbert Haspel said: "Because of our strong teamwork, we have developed a customer-oriented and optimized solution leveraging the strength of each of the partners.
"With this project we are able to sustain our fruitful cooperation with EnBW through the deployment of safe, proven Westinghouse technology to their decommissioning activities."
EnKK, which is due to secure decommissioning license from the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy of Baden-Württemberg, will manage the work under the contract.
GNS managing directors board chairman Dr Hannes Wimmer said: "Our well-established conditioning and packaging equipment ensures process reliability and compliance with the specifications for transport, interim storage and final disposal."
Image: The Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1. Photo: courtesy of Ikar.us/Wikipedia.
