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Magnitude-Magnox-Story.Pdf 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.
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