Babcock has been providing a successful Nuclear Outage Management service for almost 40 years. We are immensely proud of our 250-strong team who are able to provide full turnkey capability, from initial concept design through to site operations. We are also uniquely placed to draw upon additional skills within the business where there is a nuclear-related manpower resource of over 750 SQEP Nuclear staff.
Providing an unrivalled level of service for our clients is always a top priority. We are specialists in installation, testing and commissioning of nuclear plant systems and equipment, and have worldwide experience across the board. From the outset, we place great importance on the maintenance, refurbishment and upgrading of existing nuclear plants and systems, ensuring operators can keep them running safely and economically. As the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for many of our clients, Babcock has a depth of knowledge which other competitors find difficult to provide.
For further information on this service, or to discuss your individual requirements, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Customer Benefits
- Specialists in the installation, testing and commissioning of nuclear plant, systems and equipment
- Worldwide experience covers gas, water and liquid metal cooled reactor types as well as fuel handling equipment, process plant and waste management facilities
Core Service Features
To ensure safe operation and to adhere to ISO9001, the Construction and Site Services (CSS) department developed a management system SSP116 containing Local Work Instructions (LWI) 01- 014 to provide guidance to site employees. These procedures deal with:
- Site establishment
- Selection of Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP)
- Provision of Safe Systems of Work
- The supervision required for site works
For more details on the stations we support, see Case Study below.
Key Customers
British Energy
Sizewell B
Dungeness B
Hartlepool
Heysham
Hunterston,
Torness
Hinkley Point B
JET Culham
Harwell
DSRL (Ex UKAEA), Dounreay
Magnox, Wylfa
Testimonial
“Brilliantly done. What an outstanding performance. You did what you agreed to do, you did it on time, and to the right quality levels. In addition the level and standard of daily reporting has been a model for others to follow on similar critical projects. What’s more, you did the work to a programme which was revised at the last moment and using equipment never deployed at HPB before.” Peter Neumann, British Energy.
Case Study
Babcock provides year-round and outage support for the following stations:
Sizewell B Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR):
- Team providing C&I Task Lead and resource for year round maintenance
- Providing resources to British Energy teams working on LLRT (Local Leak Rate Testing) and Snubber testing during the outage
- Providing resources to LPMS (Loose Parts Monitoring) team
- Providing resources to General Mechanical teams during outage both Mechanical Fitters & C&I Technicians
- Providing resources to Valve and Pump teams during outage both Mechanical Fitters & C&I Technicians
- Provision of resources for Outage Site Management
- Provision of FME policemen and face fit trainers as required
- Provision of labour to Refuelling team
JET (Culham)
Babcock provide a continual maintenance and breakdown contract service to the JET Joint Undertaking at Culham.
British Energy: Dungeness B Power Station
Outage maintenance and repair service to British Energy for the reactor gas circulators (16-off) at Dungeness B Power Station. The planned maintenance operations, which are on the critical path within the reactor outage, involve dismantling, inspection, reinstatement and commissioning of the gas circulators and the associated instrumentation and lubrication systems.
British Energy: AGR Power Stations
Babcock has a contract to maintain and operate a suite of reactor inspection equipment which is used to monitor the condition of the graphite within the reactor cores of British Energy’s AGR Power Stations. This team provides information required to meet the statutory inspection requirements demanded by the NII.
Babcock also provides small teams of specialist blue-collar operatives working with our site engineers and technicians in providing ongoing site based through-life support of equipment such as the British Energy fuel-routes at Heysham and Hunterston nuclear power stations.