Great British Energy -Nuclear has signed up Jacobs to develop environmental baseline data for the Oldbury site in South Gloucestershire.
Oldbury, on the south bank of the Severn river, had two Magnox reactors totalling over 400MW that began operation in 1967 and 1968 and were closed in 2011 and 2012. The government bought the site back from Hitachi in 2024, along with another nuclear site at Wylfa, after Hitachi abandoned plans to build reactors there.
With AtkinsRealis and AECOM as subconsultants, the three companies will form a “multidisciplinary team to support environmental surveys, impact assessments and regulatory approvals,” said Jacobs “ to inform future potential planning, design and permitting decisions”.
Oldbury Great British Energy – Nuclear Chief Executive Simon Roddy added: “As part of our role to position Oldbury for nuclear development, it’s important we continue to deepen our understanding of the site with various packages of work, such as ground investigations and archaeological surveys…”
The contract builds on initial site characterisation activities and will help assess the suitability of the Oldbury site for potential nuclear development.