Westinghouse announced a multimillion-dollar contract with Spanish regulators Tuesday to help build an interim storage site for spent fuel and other nuclear waste.Under the deal, the terms of which were not announced, Westinghouse will join TRSA S.A. and GHESA S.A. in a consortium responsible for the engineering of the Almacén Temporal Centralizado waste facility. This will include the detailed design of facilities for high-level waste storage, container services and auxiliary systems. According to a Westinghouse release, the work will also touch on instrumentation and control, process analysis and the integration of other modules in the project.Work began on the ATC in April and is expected to take five years, pending regulatory approval. It will be designed to store 13,000 cubic meters of waste, with 10,000 cubic meters of capacity reserved for spent fuel. The balance will be used for other high-level waste that cannot be stored at Spain's El Cabril low- and intermediate-level repository.Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos (Enresa) awarded the contract for the high-level waste site. According to Enresa, the Spanish government established a commission to site and plan the ATC in 2006. It will be located in Villar de Cañas (Cuenca) in central Spain.
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