We design, manufacture and deliver fuel for nuclear power plants. We are a part of the Westinghouse Group of companies and our ultimate parent is Brookfield. Springfields Fuels Limited has approximately 800 employees based in the UK. Springfields Fuels Limited has a turnover in excess of £36million per annum.
Our supply chain includes obtaining the materials required for the manufacture of nuclear fuel assemblies and parts, plant and equipment required to continue the safe operation of the Springfields nuclear licensed site.
We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our business. We have adopted an Anti-slavery Policy which reflects our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our supply chains.
We have in place systems to identify and assess potential risk areas in our supply chains. We also have in place systems to encourage the reporting of concerns and to protect whistle blowers.
We have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking and expect all those in our supply chain and contractors comply with our values.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
LLWR Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC)
2023 Caron Reduction Plan for Springfields Fuels Limited
The UK Government has implemented standards for payment practices and performance named as “prompt payment code” for its own procurements as well as the companies who are working under the Public Sector Contracts. These standards require companies participating in Public-Sector contracts to pay supply chain invoices for Public-Sector Contracts within a maximum of 30 days and to demonstrate that for Private as well as Public procurements that they are compliant with the standard of paying >95% of invoices within a maximum of 60 days of the receipt of the invoices.
Westinghouse has performed an Assessment against those requirements and identified areas for improvement in the application of payment terms, which are currently being implementation according to a developed Action Plan.
