Radioactive waste manager awards £4m monitoring and support contracts

The company that manages the UK’s low-level radioactive waste has awarded two new analytical and environmental monitoring contracts.

Amec Foster Wheeler will provide environmental safety services and “waste characterisation and assurance” for LLW Repository (LLWR) as part of the contracts, worth £4 million over four years. LLWR operates the UK’s Low Level Waste Repository in West Cumbria for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, and also manages lower activity waste throughout the country.

Low-level waste includes materials such as protective clothing, metal and soil that have been contaminated by radioactive matter and must be disposed of in containers.

Amec Foster Wheeler will be the single supplier of hydrogeological and geological support for LLWR, as well as providing general technical support. It will also provide analytical support services and environmental monitoring from its analytical laboratories.

“These wins advance Amec Foster Wheeler’s strategy to expand our share of work on radiological and waste management programmes in Europe,” said decommissioning vice-president Andy White.