Mammoet moves 100t nuclear modules
28 June 2011Mammoet has supplied several Self Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMT) to transport the first two of eleven nuclear modules to the Sellafield Evaporator D nuclear power project in West Cumbria, UK.
To build the £297m Evaporator D project, Sellafield, a subsidiary of Nuclear Management Partners, contracted the UK construction group Costain. The largest of the modules to be housed at Sellafield measures 27m high, with a weight of 500t. The facility will contain over 11k of pipework, require 10,000 pipe welds and house around 1,000t of structural steel.
Each of the two modules weighs 100t. Each module had wide load dimensions, with a height of 10m, a width of 7.5m, and a length of 10m.
The modules were assembled 90 miles south of the Sellafield site in West Cumbria, and loaded onto a barge. They were shipped to a beach in West Cumbria before loading and transport 1.5km by SPMT to the Sellafield site.
Costain will build Evaporator D using modular construction, to enable fabrication and testing of the majority of the plant equipment off-site within a workshop environment.
Bill Condon, director, project management, Nuclear Management Partners said, “This is the first time in the history of the Sellafield site that barge delivery has been used to transport large equipment to the site. It has been a real team effort and I would like to thank everyone involved in the project. They have all contributed to a fantastic job”.
The Evaporator D project is scheduled for completion by 2014, Sellafield said.
