The four-year mission will see Costain deconstruct and partially cut back the peak of the location’s two Nineteen Sixties Magnox reactor buildings from 54m to 25m, decreasing their visible affect on the Snowdonia Nationwide Park panorama.
Greater than 100 individuals shall be employed on the peak of the programme, with Costain promising to make use of native provide chains to spice up abilities and financial alternative within the area.
The work varieties a part of the subsequent stage within the long-term decommissioning of the previous Magnox website, which has been in varied phases of clean-up since 1991.
Sam White, managing director for pure assets at Costain, stated: “This work is all a part of making a sustainable future, and we’re wanting ahead to deepening our relationship with NRS and dealing collaboratively with our native provide chain to finish this complicated decommissioning mission to the best security and high quality requirements.”
Rob Fletcher, chief government officer at Nuclear Restoration Providers, stated: “This can be a pivotal second for Trawsfynydd. After years of cautious planning and preparation, we’re now transferring into the supply section of some of the complicated and impressive decommissioning tasks within the UK.”
Costain beforehand accomplished enabling works at Trawsfynydd, together with new capping roofs for the reactor buildings. The agency can be working with NRS on a six-year programme throughout 11 different UK websites and is a part of Sellafield’s Decommissioning Supply Partnership.
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