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Kibble Palace Restoration

Kibble Palace is a wrought iron framed glasshouse dating from the 19th century and covering 2137m². Originally designed for a domestic property, it was shipped up the river Clyde by barge and erected in 1873 at its current location. By 2004, the ironwork was showing

St Pancras Station Restoration

St Pancras Station was opened in 1868 and is one of the wonders of Victorian engineering. The station was built by the Midland Railway Company (MRC) to connect London with some of England’s major cities. The iron and glass roof of the Barlow Shed was

HASO Cell Strip Out

The forerunner to THORP, the plant was constructed in 1952 and last used in 1973. Due to high levels of radiation and contamination, innovative size reduction techniques and contamination control measures were required to design, develop and manufacture equipment for the removal of 50 tonnes

Sampling for Characterisation

The Shepley Decontamination Services (SDS) Specialists were engaged to undertake a series of sampling and characterisation tasks at the Chapelcross site as part of the site wide Intermediate Level Waste characterisation program. These included the sampling of reactor desiccant driers, pond sludges and the internal

Shepley Group Land Hat-Trick of RoSPA Awards

The Shepley Group are celebrating again after landing another hat-trick of internationally-recognised awards, for demonstrating high health and safety standards, taking them to a combined 58 years of Gold Awards. Organisations receiving awards from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents are recognised as

FLOC Retrievals

The FLOC Retrievals Project is aimed at facilitating the retrieval of flocs (an intermediate level waste) from the holding tanks to the storage tanks. It is anticipated that the current holding tanks will continue to degrade. CNSL have been engaged to design, manufacture, inactively test,

High Level Waste Storage Plant

A range of tasks including: Evaporator B project, involving a series of plant improvements to an existing evaporator to help improve performance and evaporative capacity. Steam Improvements, involving the upgrade of the condensate and high pressure steam systems within HALES. Over 1km of stainless steel

Evaporator D

£100m PROJECT VALUE 15,000m PIPEWORK INSTALLED 160 PEAK WORKFORCE At the time of construction, Evaporator D was the largest nuclear decommissioning project in the UK. It was designed to continue reduction of the volume of highly active legacy waste. With Evaporator C having outlived its shelf

Encapsulated Product Store 3

The Encapsulated Product Store 3 (EPS3) is an intermediate level waste (ILW) store, providing additional capacity to support the two existing stores. The store is designed to safely house ILW generated from nuclear reprocessing operations and clean-up work on site until disposal is possible. Shepley

Red Extract Replacement

The Red Extract system is critical to the operation of a facility at Sellafield and is the primary source of ventilation for the in-cell caves. The existing system has been in service for over three decades and is fast approaching the end of its intended