Client: Sellafield Limited
Awarding authority: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
General contractor: NUVIA UK
First Generation Reprocessing Plant (FGRP) Stack Demolition
NUVIA’s innovative self-climbing platform (SCP) is dismantling the existing 61-metre-high FGRP Stack – retiring a Category 1 nuclear legacy risk in the process.
Project parties
Project challenges
- 61m-high stack and extending to some 122m above ground level
- Stack located in close proximity to other key buildings and hazardous facilities
- Working at height
- Safe access and egress to platform
- Environmental Impact and Waste Mangenment
Scope
Detail design and implementation of the SCP
Construction and assembly of the SCP at Sellafield
Dismantling of 61-metre-high, radiologically contaminated stack
Decontamination and Demolition of the Stack Windshield
Location
Country: United Kingdom
Site: Sellafield
Unit: NUVIA UK