Sellafield Ltd in Britain has announced a second contract within the month that it has awarded for containers for nuclear waste.
Early in May, Sellafield said it had awarded a 10-year, $73 million contract to Stainless Metalcraft, a division of engineering firm Avingtrans, for development of a storage containers to be built at Sellafield, one of the world’s oldest nuclear power facilities.
On Thursday, Sellafield announced a contract awarded to Darchem Engineering Ltd for steel storage containers also for nuclear waste. That contract has a potential value of $76 million, the company said.
The North-West Evening Mail reported that the Stainless Metalcraft contract was part of a socio-economic arrangement that involved bringing jobs to the West Cumbria area.
Darchem is already established in West Cumbria. The contract, “demonstrates our total commitment to ensuring value for money for the UK taxpayer, whilst underpinning a relentless drive for risk and hazard reduction at Sellafield,” said Sellafield Managing Director Paul Foster in a statement.
Big contracts are stories that can be told through the perspective of jobs and this one is no different. Sellafield Head of Procurement Dave Magrath said the company directly supports 20,000 jobs and an expenditure of more than $1 billion each year in the local economy. Part of that comes from support of the local supply chain, Magrath said.
“We have therefore committed to help grow the local supply chain capability through, for instance, our significant investment in Britain’s Energy Coast,” he said.