A consortium consisting of Jacobs, Westinghouse Electric Spain and the Lithuanian Energy Institute was selected to plan dismantling and waste management at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in Lithuania.
Soviet-designed Ignalina could be the first graphite-moderated reactor plant to be dismantled, making it an important test bed for methodologies that could be used to decommission the United Kingdom’s Magnox and advanced gas-cooled reactors, which also have graphite cores.
“This project, on top of the recently announced contract with Norsk Nukleær Dekommisjonering, has advanced Jacobs’ strategy to grow our decommissioning and regeneration solutions business in continental Europe,” said Karen Wiemelt, energy, security and technology senior vice president at Jacobs. “Our teams based in the United Kingdom, France and Slovakia are applying decommissioning skills acquired through work on some of the world's most complex and challenging nuclear sites includi