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NDA group Supply Chain Awards

 

Launched in 2012, the prestiguous NDA supply chain awards are jointly sponsored by the NDA and its businesses and provide an opportunity to showcase the work of our supply chain.  

Many organisations help the NDA group in its work to decommission the UK’s earliest nuclear sites. Along with the positive impact on communities and employees, there’s a lot to celebrate!

The awards will be celebrated at the NDA group supply chain event in Telford on 16 January.

 

The awards are open to any organisation working in the UK’s nuclear decommissioning supply chain.

The categories

  • Best approach to environmental sustainability
  • Best approach to achieving social value
  • Best example of delivering excellence through collaboration
  • Best example of applying creative and innovative solutions
  • Best small and medium enterprise

 

Best approach to environmental sustainability

Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. To transform our environmental sustainability legacy, the NDA group aims to:

  • Protect, remediate and enhance the environment
  • Be recognised by our stakeholders and peers for our environmental performance
  • Achieve net zero

 

Winner: Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, for deploying carbon reduction initiatives at Sellafield in support of Net-Zero ambition of 2045.

Nominees: Nexus, for demonstrating effective waste management in delivery of the Windscale Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor decommissioning project.

 

Best approach to achieving social value

Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. To transform our socio-economic legacy, we will aim to:

  • Empower our people and communities to create sustainable local and regional economies
  • Think internationally and act locally on nuclear skills, developing the capabilities of the UK skills base to facilitate decommissioning and the wider nuclear sector
  • Be a positive contributor to the national and international trade agenda

 

Winner: The Decommissioning Delivery Partnership, for supporting the Phoenix Youth Project in Frizington

Nominees: 

  • Britain’s Energy Coast Business Cluster Social Value Group, for ensuring all areas of the communities that BECBC member companies serve, benefit from a stronger, ‘joined up’ approach.
  • Bechtel Cavendish Nuclear Solutions, for delivering their Social Value Management Plan to support West Cumbrian communities
  • Cavendish Nuclear, for collaborating with Citizens Advice Copeland and Allerdale
  • Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, for deploying a wide range of activities to enhance local communities
  • NUVIA,  for building a pipeline of future health physics capability
  • One AIM joint venture, for supporting third sector organisations and investing in future skills
  • Programme and Project Partners, for establishing the PPP reading and intern programmes and Timebank to securing volunteering hours across its supply chain
  • Sellafield Engineering Centre of Excellence, for the Engineering and Maintenance work experience programme

 

Best example of delivering excellence through collaboration

Supply chain collaboration is the process of two or more organisations working together to realise or achieve something successfully, and where mutual benefit is derived by all parties involved. This category gives suppliers the chance to demonstrate where through collaboration they have driven real progress in helping the NDA group deliver its mission.

 

Winner: The Higher Activity Waste Thermal Treatment Tranche 1 Team

Nominees:

  • FIS360 Ltd for their Gamechanger’s open innovation programme
  • National Decommissioning Centre for their partnership with NDA to support cross sector learning and collaboration
  • National Nuclear Laboratory and Bendalls Ltd for their calciner strengthening improvements to support the Vitrification Test Rig at Sellafield
  • Programme and Project Partners for delivering mission critical major projects at Sellafield
  • Higher Activity Waste Thermal Treatment Tranche 1 Team for developing a first of a kind full scale Drummed Waste by Plasma prototype
  • Sellafield Engineering Centre of Excellence for undertaking sprints with over 25 supply chain partners to accelerate deployment of innovative engineering solutions
  • Urenco Nuclear Solutions for decommissioning a former gaseous diffusion plant at Capenhurst
  • Veolia in collaboration with Augean for working together to treat bulky combustible waste
  • Nexus for the Windscale Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor Removal of Redundant Equipment Project

 

Best example of applying creative and innovative solutions

Innovation, alongside research and development, is a critical enabler of the NDA’s Strategy. As well as enabling the current business, innovation can also drive wider business change too and help it improve. For us to be successful, create future options which enable us to grow or adapt to wider changes, innovation needs to be woven into the very fabric of our business. This extends beyond technology and engineering and innovation in processes, ways of working and service delivery.

 

Winner: PA Consulting for Harnessing artificial intelligence to reduce administrative burden in Sellafield’s engineering teams.

Nominees:

  • Antech for the Universal Drum Assay and Segregation System for Plutonium Contaminated Material Reclassification
  • Atkins Realis for Risk Reduction of Glovebox Operations
  • Barrnon for BARRIER modular containment system
  • Bechtel Cavendish Nuclear Solutions for the use of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV’s) within the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo (PFCS)
  • NUVIA for NuCoMBo - their Contamination Monitoring Robot
  • Orano for LEOPARD innovative decommissioning software
  • PA Consulting for developing an End-to-End Data Platforming Capability to Support Decision Making and Accelerate Nuclear Decommissioning at NRS Dounreay
  • Remediation Accelerated Delivery team for accelerating delivery by applying a systemic innovation methodology
  • Sellafield Engineering Centre of Excellence robotics team for accelerating the safe use of robotics, including UAVs, ROVs and quadruped robots

 

Best Small and Medium Enterprise

The SME applications are selected from the 4 other categories, looking for those SMEs who have made a big impact relative to their size.

 

Winner: Antech - Universal Drum Assay and Segregation System for Plutonium Contaminated Material Reclassification

Nominees:

  • FIS360 Ltd – Gamechanger’s open innovation programme
  • Barrnon -  BARRIER modular containment system

 

 

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