A consortium led by Germany-based strategic consulting company Plejades GmbH – Independent Experts has won a three-year service contract from EuropeAid. Valued at 3.9 million euros ($5.2 million), the contract aims to make radioactive waste management in Ukraine safer and more cost-effective.
EuropeAid’s Support to Radioactive Waste Management in Ukraine is a project under the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation program, a thematic initiative to promote a higher level of safety and protection when handling nuclear materials. The instrument has been renewed for the 2014-2020 period, and has been given a budget of 620 million euros.
The consortium — which includes German firm Brenk Systemplanung GmbH and nuclear fuel products and services provider Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB — is expected to come up with more efficient infrastructure for transporting and handling radioactive waste, find out how radioactive waste in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is being disposed of, and conduct a comprehensive safety assessment of radioactive waste management facilities in the exclusion zone.