Eight huge boiler units, each weighing 800 tonnes, are being removed from the former Dungeness A nuclear power station as part of ongoing decommissioning works.
The clean-up will be carried out by contractor Aureos, formerly Keltbray Infrastructure Services, under a £190m contract for client Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS)
The boilers will be moved using a specialist jack-and-slide system, allowing some of the station’s largest remaining structures to be removed safely and efficiently.
Following four years of enabling work, the project will remove around a third of Dungeness A’s above-ground structures, including associated plant and infrastructure.
Dungeness A site director Dave Evans said: “This contract marks the beginning of one of the most significant stages in Dungeness A’s decommissioning journey. It is the result of years of planning and preparation and moves us significantly closer to achieving our decommissioning mission for the site.”
Dungeness A sits on a 20-hectare site at the southern tip of the Kent coast, surrounded by one of Europe’s largest expanses of shingle and an environment recognised for its ecological importance. It generated electricity safely and reliably from 1965 to 2006, entered decommissioning in 2007 and completed defuelling in 2012.
