Amec Foster Wheeler said Friday that joint venture OneAIM had been awarded a $188 million, four-year contract to provide facility support, along with partner Inferserve, for the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria in northwest England.
Following up on prior agreements, the company said the new contract involves engineering support services for plant care and maintenance. “OneAIM's participation in the full project lifecycle is designed to produce greater cost-efficiencies for Sellafield Limited, the company responsible for reprocessing, decommissioning and nuclear waste management at the site.
Amec Foster Wheeler is already involved in several aspects of the facility's work, including Lot 3 of the Decommissioning Delivery Partnership – a 10-year framework to support clean-up of the site and membership of the Axiom alliance, which supplies design, engineering and safety case assessment services for projects in an effort to improve safety at Sellafield. Also, the company is involved in a $705 million project, as part of a joint venture, for delivery of the Box Encapsulation Plant with the aim of tackling one of the site's most hazardous legacy facilities.
Support services and construction giant Interserve also has a long history with the site, including support for major projects, such as the opening of the new Evaporator D facility.