About the sector
Atkins has more than 40 years’ experience in the nuclear sector servicing all parts of the industry, including new build, defence, generation and clean up.
Atkins is at the forefront of the worldwide nuclear renaissance, having provided business critical engineering solutions to the nuclear sector for more than four decades. The Group is very well positioned to add value to today’s challenges of delivering the next generation of nuclear power plants and at the same time maintaining the existing generating fleet and safely decommissioning the legacy facilities.
Key facts:
- We undertook our first nuclear assignment on Berkeley Power Station in 1965
- We were the first consultancy to undertake a Probabilistic Safety Assessment on a UK reactor (Hunterston A)
- We were a founder in the reactor design consortium A2M in the 1970s
- We were awarded the first managing agent contract by UKAEA for the initial decommissioning of the Windscale Piles in 1992
- We provided business critical engineering and safety services for the Superheater Header Restraints project at Wylfa in 2001.
Today, Atkins is a strategic partner to clients in all the sectors within the civil and defence nuclear industry, illustrated by the following:
- New build: Architect engineer for ITER, France.
- Generation: Tier 1 Technical Support Alliance partner to EDF Energy.
- Defence: Structural integrity and safety support to Rolls-Royce Naval Reactor Plant programme.
- Clean-up: Part of ACKtiv JV, the delivery partner for Sellafield fuel storage pond clean up.
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