Our capabilities are comprehensive and of the highest quality. We have over half a century of engineering expertise within the nuclear industry to call upon and are perfectly equipped to deliver effective solutions at every stage of the nuclear life cycle.
Cavendish Nuclear has over 50 years of nuclear engineering design experience, with a strong base of highly skilled and experienced engineering and technical staff who have undertaken tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 delivery roles across the project lifecycle (from conceptual design, to client handover, to performing roles on operational plant). We can provide a complete design lifecycle, from concept through to fully justified, detailed designs. This has resulted in Cavendish Nuclear (amongst others) being included in the 15 year Design Services Alliance framework contract covering all nuclear design work at the NDA’s Sellafield site.
We are a major provider of technical, engineering and environmental services to the nuclear industry within the UK and internationally. Through our team of professional engineers and technical specialists, our integrated and multi-discipline design capability covers the following functional areas.
Mechanical engineering is our largest capability, delivered through a team of experienced professional engineers. We are therefore able to provide a full suite of mechanical engineering skills and services including:
Process engineering capability resides within engineers with industry recognised expertise in delivery of Front End Design. This nuclear expertise is complimented with experience from the waste water, sewage and other effluent dominated industries. This ensures that equipment and innovation from other industries can be credibly integrated into our nuclear solutions. We are therefore able to provide expertise in areas such as:
Our EC&I capability of professional electrical power, instrumentation, control and software engineers have many years’ experience of working within the nuclear industry. As such, we can provide comprehensive expertise in:
Cavendish Nuclear has a team of Civil, Structural, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineers supported by Nuclear Layout and Building Services specialists, in strategic locations throughout the UK. This allows us to deliver full facility, equipment design, and construction support to the UK’s nuclear decommissioning, power generation and defence markets, with a proven track record in delivering innovative solutions.
Our expertise within the nuclear industry encompasses the entire development lifecycle from concept design and optioneering through to decommissioning, for both new build and existing facilities. We are experienced in leading multi-discipline workshops at each project stage. The provision of multiple solutions that satisfy complex project interfaces and constraints forms a key part of our approach. We are also extremely conversant on the interaction between our engineering activities and the nuclear safety case process, such that the two are fully integrated at all project stages. A number of our projects involve the application of novel loading scenarios (such as dynamic, seismic, and impact actions), complex geometries, and non-linear material behaviour. Consequently we have access to, and experience in the use of advanced analytical software to deal with such situations, as well as verified and integrated design packages that provide optimised solutions whilst ensuring full traceability of results.
To support all stages of the project lifecycle our technical and engineering specialists bring valuable expertise to our designs. The team consists of specialists and consultants who have gained their experience from many years working within the industry. In brief, this capability includes:
Cavendish Nuclear has extensive capabilities in the application of Finite Element Methods for the solution of more complex 3 dimensional geometries and non-linear loading often encountered in Nuclear applications. Typical examples involve non-linear material properties and geometry in addition to complex loading such as encountered in the assessment of extreme loading events, e.g. seismic and impact. Both Implicit and Explicit Finite Element Analysis (FEA) codes are used to assess a wide range of problems, typical examples include:
