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Sellafield’s Evaporator D to come in at ‘well below £1 billion’ following 2009 redesignby I-Nuclear |
The
UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority expects the costs of the new
Evaporator D at Sellafield to come in “well below £1 billion” following a
late 2009 re-design for the project, NDA spokesman Brian Hough said
February 6.
The
multi-million pound evaporator used to concentrate highly radioactive
liquid waste at the Sellafield nuclear and chemical waste complex will
be in service for less than three years – and quite possibly much less –
before the reprocessing plant it was meant to serve closes for good,
according to official information.
However,
the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority says that improvements at the
existing Evaporator C mean that the new evaporator, Evaporator D, is no
longer critical to the continued operation of the Thermal Oxide
Reprocessing Plant (Thorp).
Evaporator D, they say, will be used as well for post-closure cleanup operations.
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