Our multi-disciplinary team of chemists, physicists, engineers, environmental scientists, ergonomists and health & safety professionals, develop strategic and technically sound solutions in decommissioning, waste management, environmental restoration and new build.
We offer support both as part of an integrated engineering team and as independent advisors and provide the technical underpinning to support our position as the leading UK nuclear services provider, applying our specialist knowledge to the areas of:
Using a variety of processes, tools and techniques, we bring to bear a variety of disciplines and experiences to optimise the whole decommissioning process from initial strategy formulation to final site clearance.
As well as formulating strategies to move forward, we also review existing design strategies to ensure that they can be successfully implemented in terms of flows through a facility, zoning and design for ultimate decommissioning of new or modified facilities. We can also assist internal and external clients in facilitating and documenting the scheme decision process and can facilitate requirements management and value engineering workshops and apply multi-attribute decision analysis methodologies such as Best Available Technique.
We are a world leader in the safe management of radioactive fuels and wastes, with proven capabilities in waste and component handling, transportation, storage and disposal. Our decommissioning expertise ranges from identifying the optimum decommissioning strategy, ensuring integration with waste management and site restoration strategy, baseline planning and cost estimating, identification of Best Available Technique, concept design and methodology development, on-site implementation and subsequent records / knowledge management. Our capability and experience in the complete decommissioning of nuclear equipment and facilities allows us to provide a fully integrated solution that can be delivered in-house. Safety and quality are paramount through all aspects of our decommissioning work.
Our multi-disciplinary Waste and Spent Fuel Management team enables us to identify optimum management strategies, assess financial impact of competing strategies, determine the Best Available Technique, assess radiological and chemotoxic inventories, evaluate immobilising agents, assess material behaviour over time, identify appropriate package types, and produce Letters of Compliance and Radioactive Waste Management Cases.
Cavendish Nuclear has been providing safety case and hazard management services to the nuclear industry for more than 30 years and has carried out assessments, and prepared safety documentation for all major UK operators of nuclear facilities. This service provision includes safety documentation management, authorship, independent peer review and interface with regulatory bodies.
Cavendish Nuclear can provide fully integrated safety cases combined with full design and engineering substantiation capabilities, project management, analytical support and technical consultancy throughout the project life cycle.
Cavendish Nuclear safety case and hazard management capability comprises of Principal Consultants, Senior Consultants, Consultants and Supervised Practitioners. In addition to this capability within Cavendish Nuclear, we also have the potential to ‘reach back’ into the wider Babcock International Group and access another 120+ safety case and hazard management professionals within Babcock Marine. This makes Babcock International Group the largest and most diverse nuclear safety case and hazard management capability service provider in the UK.
Our extensive experience in the development and preparation of safety documentation supports all stages of a project lifecycle including:
Our hazard management capabilities include hazard identification and assessment (HAZID, HAZAN), ALARP assessment, INSA and independent peer review, dose uptake analysis, shielding design, plant zoning, human factors integration, human-machine interaction, human reliability analysis, competence frameworks, safety case development, and engineering support and workplace design.
Cavendish Nuclear has proven experience in all areas of environmental management and capabilities that enable us to deliver support to the UK and international nuclear industry. Our nuclear specialism gives us a sound understanding of our customer’s requirements saving time and money and gives confidence to the regulators that all environmental aspects have been thoroughly considered. Cavendish Nuclear are equally capable of working independently on major contracts; as a support function to customers’ nuclear projects; in a specialist role or as part of an integrated project delivery team, a flexibility that allows our solutions to be tailored to the customer’s needs.
Cavendish Nuclear can provide environmental specialists in all major technical areas including:
Cavendish Nuclear can offer essential support at all stages of a project lifecycle to ensure the project minimises environmental impacts, is compliant with relevant legislation, implements industry best practice and prevents pollution.
