Under the contract, Amec Foster will create a specialist project team, which will have experience of providing similar services to the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority at Sellafield, and to relevant projects in Europe and the US, to carry out the review.
The work involves identifying practical planning tools to help the future development of a waste management strategy at Fukushima for the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation (NDF).
Case studies will also be designed by the team to demonstrate how the tools can be applied to deliver the best practicable environmental option to manage radioactive waste cleanup process.
The study is expected to help the NDF to develop a long-term waste management strategy for the site.
NDF managing director Kazuyuki Kato said: "It is an important development that Amec Foster Wheeler, one of the UK’s leading organizations for waste management, has joined those who are supporting the restoration of Fukushima Daiichi."
Amec Foster will also run workshops based on these case studies to provide NDF staff with hands-on, practical training.
Amec Foster Wheeler Clean Energy business president Clive White said: "Our work will make both a significant contribution to the Fukushima remediation program and will also form the basis for further initiatives to adapt waste management tools to the specific requirements and conditions at Fukushima.
"We will bring to this work our world-class nuclear decommissioning expertise, which includes a thorough understanding of how to deal with radioactive waste so that the health of the public and site workers is protected."
Owned by Japanese electric utility Tokyo Electric Power, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered a severe meltdown following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
