BRINGING YOU NEWS FROM ACROSS MAGNOX APRIL 2005 Site Stakeholder Groups with Six Magnox sites had fuel four 2006 independent chairs established2005-6had been defuelled Bradwell declared fuel free TIMELINE

APRIL 2006 14.6 TWh of electricity generated across Chapelcross ponds empty of fuel the Magnox sites during 2005/06

A story of APRIL 2005 DECEMBER 2006 Neil’s notes improvement elcome to this special edition of Magnitude, which you Magnox is proud of its environment, health and will see is something of a reflection on the journey safety record. Wwe have travelled together since 2005. Back then, our challenge was to progressively turn a successful operating series of Royal management of waste and company into an equally successful decommissioning one. We Society for the environmental risks has had nuclear fuel on six sites, generation was due to end in 2010 A Prevention of increased significantly. Formation of and legacy waste still had to be tackled. Accidents (RoSPA) sector Wylfa and Oldbury have awards recognise the been awarded five star Nuclear Decommissioning But how the landscape has been transformed since that time. impressive performance of environmental ratings by the Extended generation at Wylfa and Oldbury has produced an the company over a decade, British Safety Council and Authority additional £1 billion of income for our customer, the Nuclear improving year on year. Bradwell was recognised Decommissioning Authority, and soon we will have only two sites as recycler of the year in he Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) left with fuel. Nuclear safety remains the the construction industry was formed by the Energy Act 2004, with the purpose highest priority for Wylfa awards in 2011. Tof delivering the decommissioning and clean-up of Through the Magnox Optimised Decommissioning Programme and the other sites that the UK’s civil nuclear legacy in a safe, secure and and our programme approach we have emptied ponds, still have spent fuel. Wylfa As the focus of our cost-effective manner. Today, the NDA’s overall annual Shutdown at Dungeness demolished turbine halls, blown down cooling towers, got to grips is the oldest commercial business has shifted, budget is around £3.2 billion. and Sizewell with fuel element debris, removed huge amounts of asbestos and nuclear power station in conventional safety has have gone further than many thought possible in dealing with the the world, but its operating become even more of a “The shift teams, lucky enough intermediate level waste legacy. performance compares with priority. Even though we to be on duty in the final the best of the UK’s newer strive for zero accidents, we DECEMBER 2006 hours, undertook their work We have significantly reduced hazard and removed 34 site years nuclear power stations. are proud that in 2013/14 with pride as reactor one was from the programme, saving the taxpayer £1.8 billion. Magnox staff worked over safely brought offline in the late All employee radiation 11 million hours with only morning to applause from the We’ve had strong leadership across the company, no small doses are kept as low as one accident which resulted watching onlookers. measure of innovation, a determination to succeed and, most reasonably practicable in just 20 lost hours. importantly, we’ve looked after each other. On this note I take (ALARP) with average “We then embarked on a series By Haf Morris, great pride, and you should too, that in 2014 Magnox Ltd has been employee and contractor Magnox continues learning of interviews as Site Director, Communications Officer awarded the Sir George Earle Trophy by the Royal Society for the doses being kept well within from experience, looking Nick Gore, spoke to the media. Prevention of Accidents. This is the foremost safety award in the safe and legal dose limits. for best practice and ew Year’s Eve I even made my international UK and a fantastic accolade for us all. The attention given to the continued improvement. 2006 was a television debut on BBC World “Ncelebration out News. It was before most things So, as we prepare to hand over the baton to the new owners, you of the ordinary, marking the were published on YouTube so should reflect on what’s been achieved and get ready to meet end of generation at both I’ve never been able to see it! new challenges with your usual professionalism and enthusiasm. Since 2005 Magnox has achieved: Dungeness and Sizewell. But, most importantly, 12 RoSPA Gold Awards “It was a more low key affair “While the final closure was in the evening, although a few Keep looking after one another. 37 RoSPA Gold Medals the culmination of a total 80 staff from other shifts and one 36 RoSPA Presidents Awards years of safe and successful or two visitors had popped electricity generation for in to see the end of an era. 18 RoSPA Orders of Distinction both sites, for me and my As reactor two was brought Neil RoSPA Sector Awards in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013 communications colleagues offline in the evening we all and 2014 Neil Baldwin Berkeley delicensing at Dungeness and Sizewell, headed home and made it Managing Director The British Safety Council Sword of Honour in 2008, the day represented months of to our families before raising 2009, 2011 and 2012 milestone planning. I was at Dungeness a glass to the start of 2007, The British Safety Council Globe of Honour in 2012 early in the morning making knowing we’d all return to a 11 hectares of land at Berkeley, approximately a third of the final arrangements for the very different workplace where RoSPA Sir George Earle Trophy 2014 original site, was delicensed. arrival of media teams, nothing would quite be the including the BBC and ITV. same again.”

02 03 2007 JANUARY SEPTEMBER 2008 Magnox supports skills centre APRIL Oldbury power station is 40 EDF finalises the deal to buy Magnox lifts RoSPA Engineering at Bridgwater College 2007New company agreement signed years old 2008British Energy Construction Sector Award

JUNE APRIL BNFL sells Reactor Sites Management Great Bustard spotted at Oldbury Company to EnergySolutions

MAY 2007 AUGUST 2008 NOVEMBER 2008 Oldbury reactor returns

Oldbury reactor two returned to service after a two-year outage. The reactor had been shutdown in June 2005 for its normal biennial outage but did not return to service until May 2007. Chapelcross cooling towers demolition “The demolition of the “Thousands more around the First fuel element landmark Chapelcross cooling world watched the demolition removed at Chapelcross towers cost £3 million and live on the web. Robbie took three years of meticulous Coltrane, aka Hagrid in the The first of 38,075 fuel elements at Chapelcross was safely planning and extensive Harry Potter films, was a removed from reactor one on 18 August. To allow this Hinkley ponds ROV stakeholder consultation and it mile from the site at Creca to happen, a £30 million project was required to design, of kit developed by Magnox. was all over in twelve seconds. filming a documentary on the manufacture, install and commission a new defuelling route Bob Bond and Geoff Pitman cooling towers as the finale at the site. were instrumental in the “Thousands of people witnessed to his three part series, design and build and without By Dave Wilson, the historic event from safe B-road Britain. them the Hinkley ponds would Chief Operating Officer vantage points across the region almost certainly not be as far as, one by one, each of the “I remember at the time DECEMBER 2008 down the decommissioning t 9am on a crisp 300 foot iconic cooling towers saying to the local and line as they are. Sunday morning were successfully and safely national media that it was the in May the skyline demolished in the first controlled end of an era and it was sad to CO tanks “We first deployed the ROV “A 2 By Rob Taylor, around Chapelcross explosive demolition of this see them go.” in November 2007 and in 18 leave Programme Delivery Manager changed forever. scale at a UK nuclear site. days the team achieved what Dungeness he remotely operated would have taken around vehicle (ROV) is nine months of manual effort. SEPTEMBER 2007 Four redundant CO tanks a machine which We significantly reduced Strip down 2 “T left Dungeness for a life was modified at Hinkley for worker dose uptake and the complete i4 Innovation: on the ocean waves. On use underwater in the ponds. cost saving was significant board the ship they now It was based on a modified – about £85,000 for the In 2007 the deplanting Inspire, Imagine, store acid used in the second hand excavator which Hinkley clean-up alone. of the turbine hall was Innovate, North Sea oil field. was used to clear debris and completed at Hinkley. sludge from the reactor one “After the success of the

Implement D-bay. The ROV was originally ROV, Geoff and Bob went on Over 11,000 tonnes of ILW stream complete scrap metal and 389 tonnes intended to work underwater to build two micro diggers, of asbestos and manmade Magnox launched ne of the first intermediate level waste (ILW) for 16 days. In the end it was one went into service at mineral fibre was removed in the an initiative to streams to be fully recovered and packaged at deployed for 323 days and Hunterston and the other process which encourage and any nuclear site in the UK was achieved two assisted in the ponds clean up has recently been handed took over four years. O reward innovation. Since the months ahead of schedule at Trawsfynydd site. The stream at Hinkley and later Bradwell. over as an asset transfer to competition began, more was miscellaneous activated components and consists Sellafield and is intended This was the first major decommissioning activity to take place on the site. than 2,000 ideas have been of activated components which were removed from the “The ROV, is arguably one of to be used on the ponds considered. reactor core during the operational life of the station. the most revolutionary pieces clean-up programme there.”

04 05 2009 The NDA awards £2.5 million NOVEMBER 2010 to support a Chapelcross Horizon Nuclear Power established to develop new nuclear power Hinkley decontaminates the business park and incubation units 2009stations at Oldbury and Wylfa last of 1,800 skips 2010

MARCH JUNE AUGUST 2010 NDA Sells land to support new Launch of Anglesey’s Completion of construction of internal capping roofs inside both Wylfa gets permission to generate past 2010 nuclear build ‘Energy Island’ initiative Trawsfynydd’s reactor buildings

2009 OCTOBER 2010 DECEMBER 2010 Powering on

support team to demonstrate the safety of future operations.

“Oldbury finally shut in 2012 and Wylfa reactor one is still (2014) operating safely following approval to transfer fuel from the shut- down reactor two. Wylfa is aiming to generate from By Joe Lamonby, reactor one until December Dungeness goes yellow COO, Fuelled Sites. 2015. By making best use of Berkeley safestores with first waste package oth Oldbury and the remaining nuclear fuel, Wylfa have extended Magnox has generated at ecember 2010 Dungeness became the first site in the UK to fill a ductile cast “Btheir generating lives. least an additional £1billion - a marked the end iron container with intermediate level waste (ILW).Mike Gull, This involved a huge amount significant contribution to the Dof the two-year then ILW Programme Director, looks back. of work by the sites and the costs of decommissioning.” Berkeley ‘safestore’ project that was delivered by a team made to the decommissioning led by Paul Oswald. programme. SEPTEMBER 2009 Last drums of MDU “In short, Berkeley “An early demonstration that shipped from Chapelcross sealed up its two reactors, the boxes would work was placing them into a essential. Dungeness was ore than 10,000 drums of Magnox depleted uranium passive state known as the ideal site because of an (MDU), carefully over packed in stainless steel containers, ‘safestore’ only periodically operational need to store resin Mwere shipped to Capenhurst from Chapelcross. entered for monitoring and and this allowed us to prove maintenance, until final By Mike Gull, the capability of the box in a site clearance.” Bradwell Site Director safe and reversible way. Those aced with a three boxes are still safely in Paul recalls how the funding challenge place today. project grew in significance “Fand a desire to push becoming a hugely on with hazard reduction, “There are still challenges influential piece of work. we were looking for a more ahead, but we have two interim Berkeley’s ‘safestore’ flexible and cost effective storage facilities holding project earned itself a triple solution to manage ILW. The conditioned ILW and I am very first – a first for Magnox, concept sounded simple. The proud of that progress. Many a first for the Nuclear be two years later before the container provides package people have played a part but Decommissioning Authority safestores would be reopened integrity rather than the store, we shouldn’t forget the role of and a first for the UK for a routine check.” enabling a buy as you go the supply chain, in particular nuclear industry. approach where boxes could GNS who supply yellow boxes, Trawsfynydd ILW Paul was responsible for be purchased and filled before the regulators and Radioactive store opens “The safestores brought about driving forward one of the a building was constructed. Waste Management Ltd who a shift in perception. After most significant projects in assessed our proposals and of the doors had been sealed, UK nuclear history and looks The intermediate level waste store at Trawsfynydd was the “Making that a reality was a course the Magnox team that people accepted that they back with a huge sense first in the UK to become operational, receiving the first of huge challenge and probably has fundamentally changed the were no longer able to go of pride on his role in the around 3,000 packages for storage on 9 September. remains the single biggest landscape of ILW management into the buildings and it would achievement. technology change we’ve in the UK.”

06 07 SEPTEMBER AUGUST 2011 NOVEMBER 2011 APRIL Magnox wins Constructing Hinkley turbine hall backfilled Last delivery of Magnox fuel Start of Magnox RSRL competition process Wylfa begins inter-reactor Excellence East of England Bradwell demolishes turbine hall with EDF Energy spoil 2011 to Wylfa Magnox socio-economic scheme launched2012transfer of fuel award

2011 APRIL JUNE NOVEMBER APRIL APRIL JULY AUGUST Magnox transition Launch of Magnox Limited Oldbury reactor two Magnox Plant and Structures Wylfa’s reactor two ends Final fuel flask Record rainfall means extra Magnox achieves Investors agreement signed ends generation Programme awards generation leaves Dungeness generation for Maentwrog in People Gold and wins £304 million framework contract Personnel Today award

FEBRUARY AUGUST Chapelcross drains and seals Phase one of Europe’s largest its first pond asbestos removal project complete at Chapelcross MAY Neil Baldwin becomes chair NOVEMBER of National Skills Academy Dungeness receives for Nuclear £12.8 million from the NDA to Nuclear Decommissioning DECEMBER The Snowdonia Enterprise help speed up decommissioning Authority award £1.2 million to and demolition work Beyond Chapelcross Zone Trawsfynydd is launched

MARCH 2011 Magnox Optimised JUNE 2012 FEBRUARY 2012 Decommissioning Magnox response to Programme Demolition Oldbury ends generation the accident at of seven opportunities for staff and the fter 44 years of safe “I remember having to Fukushima Dai-ichi supply chain. buildings operation, Oldbury pretend to do the shut down A power station – then several times so the n 11 March 2011, Magnox has addressed “We called the approach Taking ungeness completed the world’s oldest operating cameras could record it, Japan suffered its the recommendations Magnox Forward and looked its first phase of nuclear power station - and I was interviewed too – Oworst recorded made by HM Chief at every area of delivery and Ddemolition work, ceased generation at 11am there was a lot of focus on earthquake. The following Inspector of Nuclear innovation. From extending taking down seven buildings, on 29 February 2012. the ‘reactor trip button’ but tsunami caused a serious Installations, which mitigate generation at Oldbury and including the old administration there was much more to it nuclear accident at the the impact of extreme Wylfa, to optimising defuelling block, its adjoining annex and Andy Freeman and Simon than that. By John Vlietstra, Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear events that are outside arrangements and organising disused canteen. Priday, who were part of ‘E’ Chief Operating Officer power site. the sites’ safety cases. decommissioning into a series shift responsible for shutting “Some people had been on n 2009, Magnox was of consistent work programmes down the reactor, reflect on site their entire working lives asked to undertake a - we built a collective plan what happened. so it was quite an emotional “Afterwards we went to the “Iprogramme review called for the Magnox estate. day for them. pub and then went home to JUNE 2011 Safe and Secure Sites by the “I remember the day being watch ourselves on TV. Nuclear Decommissioning “The resulting Magnox relentless,” said Andy. “We “We had a lot to do after the Authority (NDA). Optimised Decommissioning are trained in shutting down shut down happened,” said “The control room is very Programme was implemented, a reactor, but there were a Andy. “There are alarms different now, we’ve had “My team and I were asked requiring hundreds of change lot of visitors to the control to address, cooling to be to get to know different to understand what would be control procedures. It saved room that day and to add established, safety rods systems and procedures, required to put the sites into £1.3 billion, a figure which later to the pressure several to withdraw and logs to and the nature of the job a condition where they could increased, from the existing plan cameras were recording complete before handing over has changed to deliver be left so funding could be and removed 34 site years from what happened. to the oncoming shift. safe defuelling.” channelled towards higher the time expected to get the hazard reduction across the sites into care and maintenance. NDA estate. “It was a massive team Creation of the Hub “The result in 2011 was a effort that touched almost Walking on water whole new work programme everyone in the business and he Hub was created in 2012 as In June 2011, pioneering work began at Hunterston to that, far from stopping work, it marked a real turning point a small, central team to manage allow safe access to the whole of the cooling pond using accelerated clean-up and as we set about transitioning Tsites when they enter the care and floating pontoons. hazard reduction significantly, Magnox into a world class maintenance stage of their lifecycle. at a reduced cost and provided decommissioning organisation.”

08 09 2013 APRIL NOVEMBER Community impact report funded Magnox gets Engineering NDA hold largest nuclear to support care and maintenance Construction Industry Training supply chain event preparations at Bradwell 2013Board award 2013

JANUARY MAY 2013 NOVEMBER Tate Britain make film featuring Trawsfynydd Completion of abseiling work to repair and seal the precast concrete Bradwell and Trawsfynydd decommissioning 50 per cent complete Legacy tank at Trawsfynydd panels on the side of Trawsfynydd’s reactor buildings successfully decontaminated

MAY All bulk intermediate level waste resin removed from Trawsfynydd resin vault two

FEBRUARY 2013 MARCH 2013 MARCH 2013 FEBRUARY 2013 Magnox Bulking down signs staff ore than 2,100 transfer tonnes of asbestos protocols Mwaste has been removed from Hinkley since it ceased generating Chapelcross electricity, and in 2013 the dispatches last bulk removal operations were completed and sent off last flask site for disposal. The turbine hall alone had over 389 of fuel tonnes of asbestos removed, Chapelcross achieved filling over 80 skips. a major milestone when the last flask of spent Berkeley boiler project fuel left the site for “The project itself was would be the lack of community number of agreements reprocessing at Sellafield. extremely challenging. We were support, but on the day of the have been established Hunterston land remediation looking to move fifteen, 310 first boiler moves large crowds between Magnox and he catch pit seven (CP7) remediation project at Marsh tonne boilers, through Berkeley of people gathered in Berkeley variousA external organisations Hunterston was completed, representing a major land Million town and to Sharpness docks. to wave as the boilers went past. to provide staff with career Tremediation for Magnox. MARCH 2013 From the outset we worked “Finally, I learnt about how opportunities outside of closely with our supply chain important communications is the company as it reduces The area became contaminated in the 1970s when the original partners, Low Level Waste to successful project delivery. I numbers of employees. active effluent pipeline fractured. Talking Repository Ltd, Studsvik and believe our early engagement Abnormal Load Engineering with the local community was waste By Simon Bedford, (ALE). Getting this relationship essential and I spent a great Project Manager agnox led a review right was so important to deal of time making sure they First ISF of the strategies was the lead Project us delivering the project to understood the project before The first interim storage for interim storage Manager for the boiler demanding timescales. the first moves took place. facility (ISF) is built at agnox provides M Bradwell in 2013. of intermediate level waste “Iremoval project at £500,000 of and the treatment of fuel Berkeley. It felt great to be “I experienced working with a “All 15 boilers made it safely to It can store up to 170 ductile Msocio-economic element debris at its sites involved in such skyline whole range of stakeholders, Studsvik’s specialist treatment cast iron containers and has support to the Marsh in England on behalf of the changing work. The boiler from regulators through to the facility in Sweden, with up taken receipt of a package Million fund to encourage Nuclear Decommissioning project was probably one of the police and members of the to 95 per cent of each boiler containing conditioned business growth on the intermediate level waste. Authority (NDA). most talked about projects that Site Stakeholder Group. We being recycled back into the Romney Marsh. Magnox had ever undertaken. thought one of our biggest risks metal market.”

10 11 JANUARY Magnox signs £200 million framework contract for self-shielded waste containers Magnox graduates first to complete 2014certificate of nuclear professionalism

MARCH JULY NDA announces preferred bidder First fuel element debris in Magnox RSRL competition processed at Bradwell

FEBRUARY 2014 APRIL 2014 Four boxes, four stores... are now retrieving, packaging, conditioning and storing waste across five sites, with Chapelcross and Dungeness about to start. Dungeness “I am immensely proud of south side the various teams across By Phil Sprague, the patch and it was great site clearance Intermediate Level Waste to be recognised at the i4 (ILW) Programme Director awards, where work on the emolition work at Dungeness stepped up a gear when etting to grips ILW programme won three of the link bridges between the reactor buildings and the with legacy the five categories. This is a Dsite’s conventional plant were removed. “GILW has been testament to the innovative work a key part of the Magnox being done around the sites. With the turbine hall and surrounding buildings isolated and Optimised Decommissioning the link bridges removed the area is ready for demolition. Programme. This year I can “Having ILW packed and say we are now making stored at four sites was a exceptional progress and great way to finish off last meeting Neil’s challenge of year and as we move into a MARCH 2014 breaking the back of ILW. period of significant change I know the programme will “Our achievements should continue to make progress not be underestimated; we and deliver safely.”

MAY 2014

Wylfa’s final outage Magnox celebrates after winning RoSPA accolade “A lot of the tasks we completed were for the agnox celebrated David Rawlins, RoSPA’s final time, such as boxing after winning the awards manager, said: “The up the vessel and gassing MRoyal Society RoSPA Awards encourage up, as well as using remote for the Prevention of the raising of occupational inspection equipment that Accidents (RoSPA) Sir health and safety standards had served us well for the last George Earle Trophy – across the board. 40 years. internationally recognised as the premier performance “Organisations that gain “The site’s final health check award for occupational recognition for their health By Medwyn Williams, will enable us to go on to health and safety. and safety management Outage Manager deliver the final period of systems, such as Magnox t was something of an generation. I am proud to The company took ten Limited, contribute to a honour to be the outage say that I was involved in further awards, including collective raising of the bar “Imanager for the last ever the last ever outage and am the prestigious Engineering for other organisations to Magnox outage but it was also grateful for the effort made by Construction Sector Award, aspire to, and we offer them a huge responsibility. everyone involved.” at the 2014 RoSPA Awards. our congratulations.”