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Issue 02 The Magnox December 2015 Swarf Storage Silos How a revolutionary scientific breakthrough is helping us clean up Sellafield's legacy Evaporating high level waste How important are evaporators at Sellafield? What is POCO? Find out more Defence on page 6 in Depth Keeping Sellafield safe and secure Storm Desmond In Focus: PFSP Sue Hayman Interview How Cumbria has managed Decommissioning the fifty-year-old What does the MP for Workington to stay open for business... Pile Fuel Storage Pond isn’t easy… think about Sellafield? Opening the door to opportunity at Sellafield The featured Are you an SME and interested in the construction projects are: opportunities available to you on the big Box Encapsulation Plant construction projects at Sellafield? Silos Maintenance Facility Interim Storage Facility Box Encapsulation Plant Product Store/Direct Discover the opportunities coming up at Sellafield Import Facility at the ‘Opening the door to opportunity’ event on 23 February 2016, at Energus, Workington. With a focus on four of our big The event has been designed to help you: construction projects, you will find • Meet with our major contractors and their subcontractors For further information and out more about the opportunities • Pitch for work by booking 1 to 1 sessions to sell your expertise to book your place, visit • Understand the work packages available that come from the Sellafield www.bookwhen.com/ • Understand the requirements to become a preferred supplier sellafield programme and how you can to our contractors become part of our supply chain. • Understand Sellafield site standards Editor’s Letter Editor’s Letter page 20 A Pioneering Approach e take great pride in our pioneering past at Sellafield. From our original mission of supporting the UK’s nuclear deterrent, through to harnessing the power of the atom to generate electricity and developing the capabilities to recycle used fuel Wand safely manage all forms of nuclear waste. That pioneering spirit is just as strong on the site today as our teams and supply chain face nuclear clean-up challenges for which there are no blueprints. A scientific discovery that could save years and millions of pounds on Paul Dicks, ONR Interview one of our most hazardous legacy facilities; new thinking and approaches to pageg 46 removing canned fuel and dealing with radioactive sludge; and engineering solutions that have extended the life of our vital evaporators are just some of the breakthroughs that our teams have made recently. All of these are covered in this issue along with a summary of the projects awarded ‘excellent’ status at our recent Business Excellence Awards event. Elsewhere in this issue we sit down with people for whom Sellafield takes up a significant part of their professional lives, despite not working for Sellafield Ltd or our supply chain. The newly elected MP for Workington, Sue Hayman, explains her first impressions of the site and Cumbria’s role in the Northern Powerhouse. Sue Hayman Interview page 62 Third-generation Sellafield neighbour, Councillor David Moore, recalls a time when there was a gulf between Sellafield and its communities, and how the West Cumbria Sites Stakeholder Group helps people to understand what is happening on the site. Finally, Paul Dicks who works for the Office for Nuclear Don’t forget that there are lots of ways Regulation explains the role of a regulator on the Sellafield site. I that you can keep up to date with what is happening at Sellafield: Visit www.sellafieldsites.com to learn more about Sellafield, our mission and progress, register for our newsletter at www.sellafieldsites.com/newsletter- registration/ or follow us on Twitter @SellafieldLtd #spiritofCumbria Following the devastating effect of Storm Desmond on the Cumbrian community, the nuclear family has come together to show our support. You can read more about our contribution on page 14. You can show your support to Cumbria and those impacted by the floods by donating money via text from your mobile phone. Send a text to 70070 with the message ‘FLUD15’ and a monetary amount. For example, ‘FLUD15 £10,’ would donate £10. Despite the ongoing recovery work, Cumbria is very much open for business so you can also show your support by visiting the area and shopping in our towns. A warm Cumbrian welcome awaits you. 3 Contents Contents 6 COVER What is… POCO? 23 Sellafield is changing Steps to procurement 26 8 LATEST NEWS 24 North Lakes Foodbank Since September we have been… Delivering 9,600 meals 10 COVER High level waste 26 COVER Defence in depth The importance of evaporation How we keep Sellafield secure and 14 Storm Desmond prepare for emergency Cumbria is open for business... 34 INTERVIEW Graeme McKenzie-Netherwood PILE FUEL Supply chain interview STORAGE POND 36 G6 New approaches There’s a real sense of history about deliver benefits the place 38 Build to Decommission We have to build before we can demolish ON PATROL The safe and secure 40 Delivering security stewardship of the improvements Sellafield site is our New delivery system priority 42 Job swap Sellafield Ltd Press 23 Officer swaps roles with Communications Executive 16 50 INTERVIEW Daveave Polkey 44 Q2 Performance Plan Supply chain interviewrview Updating key information 52 Medical Sciencece 16 COVER In Focus 46 INTERVIEW Sellafield expert Sellafield sets the pacpacee Pile Fuel Storage Pond Meet Paul Dicks, ONR Inspector 53 Working in a PVCVC suit 20 The Magnox Swarf Storage Silos 48 INTERVIEW Paul Howarth Ensuring people havehave the rightright tools for Clean-up plan for Sellafield’s most The newly appointed chair of the the job hazardous facility Centre of Nuclear Excellence PIONEERING RESEARCH WORK 20 53 Suited and Booted 4 Contents 60 “ There’s plenty for us to be proud of at Sellafield” 26 57 Innovus 70 Excellence Day Awards 76 West Cumbria Community Heroes Creating the Game Changers initiative The sky’s the limit Awards 2015 Once again the proud sponsor 58 Sellafield Ltd in transition 74 West Cumbria Sites Working together with the NDA Stakeholder Group 80 PHOTOGRAPHER in residence Ways to get involved Sellafield through the lens 60 Parliamentary Invite Proud of our progress 75 NIA President steps down 82 Five minutes with… Overview of Tim Chittenden’s role Shirley Williams 62 COVER Sue Hayman interview First female MP to be elected in Cumbria 64 10 facts 70 Sellafield visit facts & figures 66 It’s fit-for-purpose But surprisingly simple 68 INTERVIEW David Moore Scrutinising Sellafield EXCELLENCE DAY AWARDS Recognising our asset 80 “Sellafield is an amazing site” 5 What is… WHAT IS… POCO? Post Operational Clean Out (POCO) – What, Where, When and How We hear a lot about the decommissioning plant, in reality it’s far from it, with over 8,000 to ensure that the teams in Thorp are ready activities at Sellafield, but what about the tonnes of fuel reprocessed already and only to make the transition in 2018, he explains: bit in between? The facilities don’t stop around 1,300 tonnes remaining, operations will “Thorp Head End and Chemical plants are the operating one day and go straight into come to an end in 2018 when the Chemical first areas in the Operations Division that will decommissioning the next, so what does Separation and Head end areas of the plant undergo a managed POCO programme. happen when operations come to an end? will transition into the POCO phase. In order to “This phase of Thorp’s life will begin successfully get to that point there is a lot of immediately after the end of the reprocessing As 2018 fast approaches and spells the work being carried out to prepare for it. operations in November 2018 and there is a lot beginning of the end of reprocessing operations of work being done now to prepare us for that on the site, (Oxide reprocessing ends 2018 including housekeeping and co processing of and Magnox reprocessing 2020), thoughts are How are we preparing? materials already in the plant. turning to what is going to be happening in For the plants that are nearing POCO “It is the existing workforce that will carry those plants that are nearing the end of their there is a team dedicated to supporting their out the operation and maintenance activities operating lives. The word POCO is becoming preparation for transition from operations. for POCO and they will also deliver the more popular, so what does it mean? The POCO programme team is small necessary work to maintain safety throughout and so work alongside the skilled and the phase, so making sure they are ready is a knowledgeable workforce in the plants to vital part of our planning. What is POCO? deliver the tasks required to carry out POCO POCO is the process that takes place preparations. Facility leads interface between “Some of our workers have when a nuclear plant has reached the end the plant and the POCO team. been here in Thorp since of its operating life. The aim of POCO is to Characterising what is in the plant and reduce the risk and hazard in a facility by looking at technical and engineering solutions, commissioning of the plant, they removing the nuclear inventory and reducing along with Knowledge Management is a have worked on the plant from the lifetime costs of the redundant plants. In huge and important part of what the POCO simple terms, it gets the plant as radiologically programme do. the start and will be here to see clean as it can be which reduces the risk and Collating information that is available and the finish of reprocessing and hazard and in turn makes the plant cheaper speaking with experienced workers to record to care for.
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