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Safety achievement for SPP1 team
Work to construct the new Sludge Packaging Plant 1 (SPP1) Buffer store at Sellafield is progressing well with the team involved on the project recently achieving six years, and almost 700,000 man-hours, without a Recordable Injury or Reportable Incident.
The SPP1 Buffer Store will, once completed, provide modern shielded containment for the sludge to be retrieved from Magnox First Generation Storage Pond.
The total volume of concrete poured in the building structure to date is 3339m3, or almost 550 mixer wagon loads, so the walls are now complete.
The project has also fixed 820 tonnes of reinforcing steel, almost all of which has had to be manually placed, as cranage on the construction site is severely constrained by the potential of collapse onto adjacent facilities.
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