Amentum- and Jacobs-led teams each recently clinched new cleanup contracts at the United Kingdom’s Dounreay site in Scotland.
Site prime Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd., a consortium of Cavendish Nuclear, Jacobs and Amentum, awarded both contracts.
The Amentum-led team had by far the bigger win, beating out five competitors, including a Jacobs-led team, to clinch a contract worth up to £400 million ($555 million) over seven years to clean up the Prototype Fast Reactor at the site near Thurso, Scotland, the company said Wednesday.
Amentum, under the seven-year, Prototype Fast Reactor Intermediate Level Waste Size Reduction Facility Concept Design contract, awarded under the Dounreay Decommissioning Services & Works Framework, the Amentum-led team will among other things: build a size reduction facility; perform shaft and silo decommissioning; and teardown historic active laboratories.
“Work is already underway,” David Batters, senior vice president of Amentum in the United Kingdom, said in the company’s prepared statement on the win.
The Amentum-led team includes Westinghouse, NSG Environmental, Abbot Risk Consulting, DBD, Exyte Hargreaves and AECOM, the company wrote in its release.
Amentum and its teammates beat out five competitors to win the work.
Amentum’s award followed the Jacobs team’s win last week to clear and treat radioactive waste in the shaft and silo at Dounreay under a contract worth up to £8 million ($14.5 million) over 6.5 years.
