Amentum to support next phase of Norway's nuclear clean-up
Power Engineering International
Posted on: 28 May 2025
Amentum and its partner Multiconsult Norge AS will deliver safety case management and training for Norway’s nuclear clean-up programme.
Norsk Nukleær Dekommisjonering (NND) has selected Amentum and its joint venture partner Multiconsult Norge AS to deliver safety case management and training for Norway’s nuclear clean-up programme.
This award is focused on delivering a new methodology for robust and well documented safety cases for new design and existing legacy nuclear facilities. This includes reactors in shut down conditions, post-operational clean-out and decommissioning, as well as facilities for storage and management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.
Andy White, senior vice president of Amentum Energy & Environment International, commented in a statement: “This contract award is a strong vote of confidence from a client and comes at a pivotal time when Norway is considering the deployment of small modular reactors to meet its future energy needs.
“We will bring our extensive global experience in nuclear safety analysis – spanning the entire lifecycle – to this project, with particular emphasis on assessing legacy facilities and supporting their decommissioning in line with advanced safety standards.”
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The contract covers work at KLDRA, Norway's national waste repository, and two research sites – a nuclear fuel and materials testing reactor at Halden and the JEEP-II neutron scattering facility at Kjeller.
Norway's Combined Storage and Repository for Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste (KLDRA) is the only storage and repository for radioactive waste in Norway and was opened in 1998.
The landfill is a mountain facility with 50 meters of rock cover, with four separate rock halls with a common access tunnel.
The facility is owned by Statsbygg (Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property) and operated by the Institute of Energy Technology (IFE) on behalf of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries.
Amentum and Multiconsult have been working for NND since summer 2022 under an engineering and technical framework, helping to develop a nuclear decommissioning strategy including approaches for spent fuel and radioactive waste management.
