Award win for Doosan Keltbray Consortium

The Doosan Keltbray Consortium (DKC) has received the award for Best Supply Chain Collaboration Led by a Large Company from the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in recognition of the project that saw the deplanting for four boiler houses at the Bradwell Nuclear Power Station in Essex, UK.

The Award recognises excellence in NDA suppliers who work collaboratively to achieve a common goal and is judged by a panel of senior nuclear and engineering professionals chaired by the NDA’s head of supply chain optimisation.

According to the panel, by proactively leaning lessons from its supply chain partners, DKC made continuous improvements in its approach to deplanting. Other approaches included training workshops and bringing in best practice from other sites and industrial. This resulted in significant savings in time and cost as the project progressed through to the fourth boiler house, which was delivered at 10% less cost and 30% faster than the first.

Commenting on the award success, Doosan Babcock’s nuclear service director, Cameron Gilmour, and Keltbray’s managing director for rail & infrastructure, Phill Price, said: “Winning the award for Best Supply Chain Collaboration from the NDA is a fantastic recognition of the Doosan Keltbray Consortium’s proactive and positive approach to working with our clients and supply chain partners. Our approach is ‘success through collaboration’, and by working together we can deliver industry-leading decommissioning projects, meaning that we can significantly support stakeholders to help the UK’s fleet of older nuclear reactors can be retired safely and efficiently.”

Alan Bladon, Magnox plant and structures programme director, added: “The transformation of the reactor buildings into de-planted safe store structures is a key step on Bradwell’s journey to becoming the first UK reactor site to enter care and maintenance. The boiler house project has been a big part of that work and we are delighted to have had the Doosan Keltbray Consortium in place to deliver safe and efficient decommissioning for the site’s owner, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.”