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The services Aker Solutions provides to this industry are typically focused on analysis of how to best ensure precautions to safeguard the environment and the health and safety of people. Aker Solutions' main activity within the UK nuclear industry is to assist the British nuclear authorities with clean up work related to sections of Sellafield where operations have been closed down. Activities are centred around remediation, decommissioning and clean up of the historic nuclear legacy, what is often described as the Legacy ponds and facilities. Aker Solutions is one of few companies with the necessary expertise to find and deliver safe, sustainable and environmentally-sound solutions to the challenges of nuclear clean-up and waste management.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has strategic responsibility for the UK's nuclear legacy, and is decommissioning 20 civil public sector nuclear sites safely and securely, whilst protecting the environment. In addition to the clean up activities at Sellafield, Aker Solutions also holds extensive capability providing decommissioning and clean up expertise at a number of these UK nuclear sites.