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£1m decommissioning saving for UK taxpayers by using second hand skips . £14,000 new

Over £1m pounds of taxpayers’ money is being saved at Sellafield by re-using fuel skips from another site, rather than buying new skips to decommission a 60-year-old legacy plant.

http://www.govopps.co.uk/1m-decommissioning-saving-for-uk-taxpayers/

Monday November 18th, 2013

Some 42 redundant Magnox skips have been saved from being broken up at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Chapelcross site and are instead being transported to Sellafield to be used for shipping waste out of the Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP).

Sellafield Ltd has saved over £580,000 by re-using the Magnox skips from Chapelcross and Magnox Ltd has saved significant monies by avoiding dismantling, transport and disposal costs bringing the total saving to over £1,000,000.

PFSP waste manager Chris Mounsey came up with the money-saving idea.
He said: “I got talking to colleagues at Chapelcross, who used these large metal storage boxes to store nuclear fuel underwater at their Scottish nuclear station.  Earlier this year, they finished defuelling their reactors and no longer need their Magnox fuel skips, which seemed like a good opportunity for us. 

“At Sellafield, we’re working to recover 750 tonnes of radioactive metal wastes from the PFSP and need Magnox skips to firstly store and then to move the waste out of our historic fuel storage pond to downstream treatment plants.

“In the past, we’ve ordered in brand new Magnox skips which were expensive at almost £14,000 each or we’ve sourced them from elsewhere on the Sellafield site, but we couldn’t get them in the timescales needed.  So Chapelcross provided the ideal solution – they wanted to dispose of their skips and we wanted a cheaper source of skips – it’s a win-win for everyone.”

MESSAGE TO DECC (CHEAP SKIPS HERE) – http://plant.autotrader.co.uk/used-plant-machinery/category/waste-and-recycling/skips

November 18, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized