The final concrete pour on the roof slab of our Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant (SRP) process building has been completed. The latest achievement, for one of the site’s largest and most complex infrastructure projects, means the main building is now fully weathertight.
John Leslie, SRP project director, said: “I’m delighted we’ve reached another pivotal moment in the delivery of SRP, and I want to congratulate the team on their latest achievement.
“This is an extremely complex major project to deliver, and through our PPP delivery model we have collaborated with our supply chain partners Kier, Severfield and Mammoet to achieve another significant step forward.
“Delivering projects of this scale and keeping them on track, while keeping everyone safe, is no mean feat and is thanks to the collaboration and professionalism demonstrated everyday by hundreds of people across our supply chain all striving for excellence.”
Facts and figures
To complete this latest milestone, over 2,700 cubic metres of concrete from Sellafield’s new on-site batching plant was poured, pumped up to a height of 30 metres, over a 12-week period to complete the roof slab. Now the process building is weathertight, the facility’s internal and mechanical fit-out will progress, pushing the project closer to its active commissioning and operations in support of the government’s plutonium disposition strategy announced earlier this year.
Louis Twentyman, a graduate of PPP’s internship scheme and now a site engineering apprentice on the project, said: “It’s amazing to be part of a project the scale of SRP, and one with such an important role in the site’s decommissioning.
“Not everyone gets to work on projects of this stature and where there’s something interesting and exciting happening every day. It’s amazing seeing it progress and to be part of it all – I can’t wait to say I helped to build that.”
Confidence
The project is one of only a handful of the country’s major infrastructure projects to hold a ‘green’ delivery confidence rating from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), the government’s centre of expertise for infrastructure and major projects.
Once commissioned, SRP will safely receive special nuclear material packages from existing storage locations across the Sellafield site before retreating them into new 100-year packages for safe storage. The SRP facility will enable all special nuclear material to remain safe and secure in its store into the next century and beyond and, therefore, plays a key role in delivering Sellafield’s purpose to create a clean and safe environment for future generations.
For more on this story go to: Flagship Sellafield project seals major milestone – GOV.UK.
Congratulations to everyone involved.