AREVA, a global leader in nuclear energy and Atkins, one of the world’s leading engineering and design consultancies, have formed a joint venture to compete for projects in the UK nuclear fuel management and decommissioning sector.
The partnership brings a unique combination of international technology, unbeatable design and engineering consultancy, and a deep understanding of the UK market and regulations.
The new partnership will enable clients to engage with a single entity that focuses on supporting the back-end of the UK nuclear fuel cycle, including spent fuel management, waste management and decommissioning projects across the UK.
Zyda Law is an award winning specialist law firm with 20 years’ unrivalled experience of projects involving nuclear waste, decommissioning, and new builds.
Our many successes include: translating decommissioning plans into a planning framework adopted by the local planning authority - setting a UK and industry precedent - and winning of planning permissions and regulatory consents for nuclear waste, decommissioning and fuel management projects.
Our clients include: EDF Energy; United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority; the Dounreay Site Restoration Limited and the Ministry of Defence. Our clients describe us as “best in class”.
With our advice and clear strategies, our clients achieve their planning permissions, environmental and regulatory approvals as quickly as possible.
The McGee Matom joint venture brings together decontamination, decommissioning and deconstruction technical excellence to provide a matchless suite of services to the UK nuclear industry.
McGee has over five decades of decontamination and demolition experience and a portfolio of successfully completed, complicated projects across the UK energy sector.
Matom is an established provider to the nuclear sector and focuses on delivering decommissioning services, radiological protection and proprietary decontamination of surface and subsurface, inorganic and organic radiological and chemical contamination using the unique Techxtract® product.
McGee Matom - the end-to-end nuclear decommissioning and demolition service.
Aquila Nuclear Engineering is a part of The Calder group, which is a pan European company with 10 subsidiaries in five countries and a turnover in excess of £165 million.
The group is uniquely positioned to provide engineering solutions to the civil nuclear, scientific, oil & gas and nuclear medicines sectors
Our dedicated staff provide; safety case, engineering, design, procurement, assembly, test, installation and commissioning expertise to deliver electro-mechanical engineering solutions to Site Licence Companies and Tier 2 Organisations.
We specialise in provision of turnkey solutions for gloveboxes systems, shielded facilities, mechanical and remote handling and transport packages. Other Calder group companies also manufacture components and assemblies to Clients detail drawings, with Helander Precision Engineering being a supplier of precision machined components for the nuclear industry.
In 2006, Capita was appointed by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA - formerly known as the British Nuclear Group), to establish a consistent recruitment process whilst delivering cost savings and safeguarding the supply of agency supplied workers (ASWs).
Capita has continued to revolutionise the hiring process, dramatically reducing ASW clearance and on-boarding timescales, providing up to date market intelligence and best practice methodologies to hiring managers, which has resulted in an efficient supply model, which functions without ever compromising on service delivery.
Please see www.nuclearworks.co.uk for information on the NDA Collaborative Framework Agreement and career opportunities across the wider estate.
Lancs Industries designs and manufactures radiation shielding and containment products used to increase safety and protect worker health in hazardous environments. Our products reduce radiation exposure and minimize the spread of contamination at nuclear power plants, remediation sites and laboratories, on Navy ships, submarines and shipyards, and in radioactive settings throughout the world. We also offer training in radiological work practices.
Our products include:
PPE (suits, Supplied Air Respirators, shoe covers)
Plastic Goods (blister bags, posting bags, drum liners, roll goods)
Contamination Control (tents, ventilation units, catch containment/funnels)
LLW Repository Ltd is a waste management company that provides services to Customers to treat and dispose of low level radioactive waste. On behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, we manage the national Low Level Waste Repository in West Cumbria and oversee a national Low Level Waste programme to ensure that lower activity waste is managed effectively.
Recognising the strategic importance of the repository, LLW Repository Ltd has developed services to allow treatment of the wastes and to reduce the volume of waste destined for the disposal vaults. These services include Supercompaction, Metallic and Combustible Material Treatments, disposals of Very Low Level Waste and Characterisation Service to improve waste classification and decision making.
Mammoet is the world’s leading tailor made heavy lifting and multimodal transport solutions specialist. Our core business is the transport, shipping, installation (including horizontal and vertical positioning), and removal of heavy or large objects, to and from any location, onshore and offshore. Maintenance lifting services and plant stops and the worldwide trade in new and used equipment are also one of Mammoet’s core activities. Mammoet’s activities are focused on the Nuclear and Petrochemical industry, Civil engineering projects, the Power generation sector, Offshore and Marine projects. The engineering skills, experience, thousands of highly skilled professionals and a vast fleet of state of the art equipment, combined with high quality and safety standards, have made Mammoet a market leader, setting trends and records around the world. Our goal is to provide smart solutions to our client base
The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) offers an unrivalled breadth of technical products and services to our customers across the whole nuclear industry.
Covering the complete nuclear fuel cycle from fuel manufacture and power generation, through to reprocessing, waste treatment and disposal and including defence, new nuclear build and Homeland Security. NNL provides these services supported by an impressive range of facilities and links with international research organisations, academia and other national laboratories. NNL’s facilities are second to none. The Central Laboratory at Sellafield is the most modern nuclear research facility in the world. The Windscale Laboratory provides Post-Irradiation Examination (PIE) and other services critical to plant life extension. At Workington NNL operates a non-radioactive test rig facility and at Preston NNL operates a uranium active chemistry laboratory. NNL also has staff at the Risley, Stonehouse and Harwell sites providing Head Office functions, graphite technology, radiation chemistry and modelling/simulation.
NUKEM Technologies is a global nuclear specialist in design, consultancy, engineering, and delivering turnkey facilities. We specialise in:
All types of radwaste management (facilities, process, technology). We build complete waste treatment facilities through to provision of specific technology.
Spent Fuel Management including storage, handling and characterisation.
Decommissioning including segmentation techniques, decontamination, site characterisation and remediation using innovative decommissioning technologies.
Engineering & Consultancy
Our engineers and researchers develop solutions that are both modern and proven effective. Furthermore, our solutions build upon our extensive experience within the nuclear sector, which began over five decades ago.
PacTec EPS Ltd, borne of PacTec, Inc. USA, has over 20 years experience in manufacturing a complete line of innovative, safe, cost effective, custom engineered packaging products, for the nuclear waste, hazardous waste, and transportation industries. We manufacture soft sided packaging such as IAEA certified IP-1 and IP-2 Lift Bags, LSA and SCO wraps, and rail car liners and tarps. PacTec has been awarded 9 patents, and has an experienced and innovative research and design team working to provide solutions for your waste packaging needs. We also provide product testing and development, working with our UK clients such as LLWR, RSRL, Magnox, and Sellafield, to design project specific packaging.
Recognised as a market leader in sub-contract cutting services, P.P. Plasma Ltd prides itself on quality, technical trouble shooting and delivering a reliable customer service.
A provider of Laser, Water Jet, Plasma & Bevel Water Jet cutting services, it holds one of the most diverse material portfolio’s that includes a vast range of Stainless Steels, Aluminium’s, Nickel Alloy’s, Copper, Brass, Bronze, Duplex & Super Duplexes and High Alloy Austenitic grades and thicknesses.
Operating throughout the UK P.P. Plasma Ltd are certified to ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, OHSAS 18001:2007 & AS 9100 Rev C.
Radwise Limited have a proven track record in the supply of radiological protection resource to the UK nuclear industry. We have over 12 years' experience in providing specialised resource for operational reactor sites, reactor outages, decommissioning, project delivery, land remediation, waste management and nuclear submarine maintenance. With a highly competent and motivated workforce delivering a high level of customer satisfaction we have established ourselves as the leading provider in the UK market. We are a Tier 2 company to the UK Nuclear Supply Chain and currently have Framework Agreements in place with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority & EDF Energy.