Sellafield’s First Generation Magnox Storage Pond (FGMSP) is one of the most hazardous industrial building in Western Europe.
The pond is used for storage of >1000 filled waste skips, a significant amount of these are unrecorded. With large levels of radioactive sludge present and the quality of pond containments deteriorating it is in Sellafield critical plans to deal with the waste in the FGMSP.
Increasing the client’s capability to sort and export legacy waste Veolia Nuclear Solution (VNS) was contracted by Cavendish to design and build equipment for retrievals of corroded fuels and material from FGMSP as the first stage of a multi-staged decommissioning programme.