Andy White, senior vice president of Amentum Energy & Environment International, said: “This contract award is a strong vote of confidence from a client and comes at a pivotal time when Norway is considering the deployment of small modular reactors to meet its future energy needs.”
This award is focused on delivering a new methodology for robust and well documented safety cases for new design and existing legacy nuclear facilities, including reactors in shut down conditions, post-operational clean-out and decommissioning, as well as facilities for storage and management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.
“We will bring our extensive global experience in nuclear safety analysis – spanning the entire lifecycle – to this project, with particular emphasis on assessing legacy facilities and supporting their decommissioning in line with advanced safety standards,” added White.
The contract covers work at KLDRA, Norway's national waste repository, and two research sites – a nuclear fuel and materials testing reactor at Halden and the JEEP-II neutron scattering facility at Kjeller.
Amentum and Multiconsult have been working for NND since summer 2022 under an engineering and technical framework, helping to develop a decommissioning strategy including approaches for spent fuel and radioactive waste management.