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Sellafield Ltd awards multi million pound contract for the Highly Active Liquid Effluent Facility Project
Sellafield Ltd has today announced that the contract for the Highly Active Liquid Effluent Facility project has been awarded to the HALEF Partnership, a consortium comprising AMEC, AREVA and Balfour Beatty.
The contract requires the consortium to work in partnership with Sellafield Ltd to further develop the concept design up to a point where the project definition and design can be fixed in order to bound the subsequent scope, schedule and cost for the construction phase of the project.
The work will commence immediately and it is anticipated that this phase will take approximately two years to complete.
On the satisfactory completion and there still being a business requirement, this will be followed by a four year procurement construction and commissioning phase, which is scheduled to commence mid 2012.
Speaking on behalf of Sellafield Ltd, Allan Townson, New Build Project Strategy Manager, said: “We are pleased to be able to award this contract to the HALEF Partnership and look forward to working in close partnership with the consortium in order to deliver a safe, reliable and cost effective Highly Active Liquid Effluent Facility for our customer, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority”.
The Highly Active Liquid Effluent Facility will store liquid radioactive waste, which arises from nuclear fuel reprocessing operations taking place on the Sellafield site.
The facility will comprise a number of high integrity Highly Active Storage Tanks and associated process equipment housed in a seismically qualified concrete building.
The HALEF Partnership member companies are:
- AMEC (Joint Venture leader) - project management and detailed design and installation of Mechanical/Electrical/Control Systems.
- AREVA (Back End Business Group) – Engineering management, process design, procurement and commissioning of Highly Active Storage Tanks and associated equipment
- Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering - design and construction of civil and building works, for civil, structural and architectural design
