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British Nuclear Group team beats schedule by 18 months
Successfully moving over seven thousand drums and 54 crates has resulted in British Nuclear Group\'s Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) stores team at Sellafield meeting their target an impressive 18 months ahead of schedule.
Required by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, the move has seen over 80 percent of the stores inventory safely transferred into new, purpose build stores.
Built in 1970s, and storing historic legacy waste since that time, the stores contained a mixture of drums, crates and filter stillages, in turn containing a variety of Intermediate Level Waste items. Following the construction of the three new seismically qualified Engineered Drum Stores, the inventory was identified for transfer, enabling the eventual decommissioning and removal of the existing stores.
Each move required careful co-ordination by the delivery support team to ensure the right equipment, people and transportation were available. Support team member Diane Robertson said: “The PCM stores team who look after both the older PCM Stores Complex and the new Engineered Drum Stores, is relatively small therefore co-ordinating all the moves was a challenge.
“Everyone worked really hard to ensure that everything progressed as smoothly and quickly as possible to achieve these excellent results.”
Jenifer Davies, head of delivery for PCM said: “I am delighted with the progress made to empty the B300 series PCM Stores 18-months ahead of schedule.
“A programme of work that enables the last 20 percent of the inventory to be relocated to the Engineered Drum Stores has been prepared and work is underway already to achieve this. This is another successful example of the PCM Waste teams dedication to dealing with some historic issues, timely”
