Westinghouse Electric Company has partnered with RWE Nuclear GmbH to dismantle two reactors in the Gundremmingen nuclear facility in Germany, as announced on Dec. 10.
"This is one of the most technically demanding scopes in the decommissioning of the Gundremmingen site," Heiko Ringel, plant manager, said in a news release. "For this reason, we selected Westinghouse as an experienced partner who can efficiently and reliably manage the complexity of the project at the highest level of safety and quality."
The company is credited for reaching the largest number of decommissioning scopes in the past 10 years.
Westinghouse offers a supply of nuclear power plants maintained through deactivation and decommissioning processes, according to a news release. The company's technology is the basis of almost 50% of the world's operating nuclear plants.
"With these contracts, we are consistently implementing our dismantling obligation," Nikolaus Valerius, board member for nuclear energy at RWE Power and technical managing director of RWE Nuclear, said in World Nuclear News. "We want to be able to dismantle our plants safely, immediately and efficiently by the middle/end of the 2030s."
"We appreciate the trust that RWE has placed in Westinghouse to deliver this critical phase of the Gundremmingen decommissioning project," Sam Shakir, president of environmental services at Westinghouse, said in a news release. "Our decades of hands-on experience and depth of services enable us to reduce risk and deliver confidence when partnering with customers to retire plants and restore landscapes."
The contract specifies that reactor pressure vessels, reactor heads, reactor internals and storage racks form part of the process.