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Sellafield Ltd reflects on a year of achievement
Accelerated high hazard reduction and the establishment of a solid base for future progress ... they’re the key achievements at Sellafield Ltd after the company’s first year under new ownership.
Sellafield Ltd Director of Infrastructure Carol Johnson delivered that message today to an audience of key nuclear industry figures.
Just over a year since Nuclear Management Partners became the company’s new Parent Body Organisation, Mrs Johnson was speaking to an audience of politicians, analysts and industry insiders at the Energy Choices ’09 conference in London.
She said that successful partnership working, with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and other stakeholders, had been key to the company’s success to date.
And Managing Director Bill Poulson has flagged up a number of examples where, building on the Sellafield site’s unique experience in nuclear decommissioning, significant progress has been made in high hazard reduction.
“Our focus on high hazard risk reduction has been demonstrated already this year with the transfer of historic waste from a fifty-year-old tank at Sellafield into high integrity storage; a programme of improvements in our fuel storage ponds and with the completion of our 5000th container within the vitrification plant,” he said.
“These, and many other achievements over the last twelve months, would not have been possible without the disciplined professionalism of all of our teams, and the support and partnership of our local communities and world class supply chain.”
Mr Poulson also explained how, over the first 12 months of NMP’s contract with the NDA, much work had gone into a detailed review of the organisation and production of a change programme to further embed world class practices.
“We said that we would spend the first year of the contract establishing a strong base for the organisation. We have done just that,” he said.
“We have agreed the one, three and five year vision for Sellafield Ltd, are well on the way to building a credible Lifetime Baseline and have set ourselves a challenging but achievable target of delivering six years worth of work in just five.
“We have started the journey towards this challenge and we are confident that together we can succeed.
“What we are doing is central to the NDA’s national mission and we are excited by the challenges ahead.
“By drawing on the experience and skills of our world class teams and those within parent body organisations, URS, AMEC and Areva, we can continue to drive further acceleration of risk reduction and deliver the benefits of our improvement programme.”
