Safety and Reliability

• Safety Criteria Development (design phase, operating facilities, plant decommissioning).
• Fault/Hazard Identification in support of safety, reliability and risk assessments, including HAZOP studies, FMEA techniques etc.
• Safety Assessments including supporting analysis of hazards, vulnerability and damage.
• Availability, Reliability & Maintainability of existing and novel Process Plant.
• Maintenance Optimisation including Reliability Centred Maintenance.
• Design Optimisation/Justification, from a safety viewpoint.
• ALARA/ALARP Studies, both qualitative and quantitative.
• Safety Case Preparation, to meet HMNII and other licensing requirements.
• Independent Peer Review of safety, reliability and risk assessments and safety cases, on behalf of both the licensee and the licensing authority.
• Consequence Modelling, to address effects to both on-site and off-site groups.

Summary Project List

Safety Appraisal Study for existing and new facilities - Aldermaston, AWE

Preparation of Pre Construction, Pre Commissioning and Operational Safety Reports for the First Intermediate Level Waste Encapsulation Plant (EP1), Encapsulated Product Store (EPS1) and Services Building (EPSB1) - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

Preparation of Safety and Legal Cases for Retrieval of Material from Vault 8 at Drigg - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

Preparation of Safety Reports for the Waste Compaction Plant at Drigg - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

Risk assessment of Magnox waste debris vaults, BNFL

Production of Pre Commissioning Safety Report (PCSR) for the Segregated Effluent Treatment Plant - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

Safety Assessment and Preparation of Safety Case Documentation for the Radwaste Treatment Plant and Associated Store - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

Specification of form, timescale and content of safety reports and submissions, and probabilistic fault analysis, required to obtain necessary licensing approvals or input into design specifications - Sizewell B Power Station, Central Electricity Generating Board & Nuclear Electric

Project management of Whole Base Safety Case and provision of specialist nuclear advice - Devonport Dockyard, Ministry of Defence

Specialist safety/engineering appraisals and assessments of the ventilation systems of numerous facilities - AWE Sites, AWE

Feasibility study for the upgrade of A45 ventilation system - Aldermaston, AWE
Preparation of safety assessment, safety cases and associated documentation for numerous facilities in support of AWE Site Licensing - AWE Sites, AWE

Provision of specialist nuclear advice for future projects feasibility studies - Devonport, Faslane & Rosyth Dockyards, Ministry of Defence

Nuclear Works Advisor for RD102 Dock Enhancement Project - Rosyth Dockyard, Ministry of Defence

Level 2 Probabilistic Safety Assessment - Leibstadt BWR Power Station, Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG

Specialist assistance on Availability, Reliability and Maintainability modelling of novel process plant - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

Provision of facility maintenance support including preparation of maintenance policy, strategy and instructions and EMIT schedules and undertaking spares reviews - AWE Sites, AWE

Preparation of safety cases for transportable effluent tanks and the effluent receipt and transfer system - Devonport Dockyard, Devonport Management Limited

Design and safety peer review for the RD46/3 dock enhancement project., Rosyth Dockyard, TBV Schal Provision of technical advice with respect to nuclear power restructuring and privatisation in the UK - Department of Trade and Industry

Appraisal of Swedish utilities nuclear assets - Barclays de Zoete Weld

Probabilistic Safety Assessment in support of continued operation - Wylfa Magnox Power Station, Nuclear Electric

Rationalisation Feasibility Study for AWE Sites facilities - AWE Sites, AWE

Preparation of hazards assessment section of the Operating Plant Safety Cases produced to meet NII Site Licensing Requirements - Dounreay, UKAEA

Preparation of Safety Justification for B205 Ventilation System - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

Safety support on refurbishment of trade waste liquid effluent collection system - AWE, Aldermaston, Costain Engineering

Quality Assurance Auditing of HAZOP Studies for plant modifications and safety reappraisals of nuclear chemical plant - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

Safety assessment and preparation of safety documentation for operations in the West Ponds Area at Sellafield - British Nuclear Fuels

Preparation of PCSR for B229 Laboratories - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels
Preparation of safety and legal cases for retrieval of material from Vault 8 at Drigg - Drigg Waste Disposal Facility, British Nuclear Fuels

Preparation of the PCSR for the Waste Packaging and Encapsulation Plant - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

Provision of support to revise and update DIDO HAHC safety documentation - Harwell Nuclear Establishment, UKAEA

Production of safety reports for the Sellafield site rail networks - Sellafield, British Nuclear Fuels

The provision of the safety documentation required to meet the operating authorisation requirements of the D2O filtration plant - Harwell Nuclear Establishment, UKAEA

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Human Factors Assessment in Support of Continued Operation - Sizewell A Magnox Power Station, Nuclear Electric

Probabilistic Safety Assessment in Support of Continued Operation and Plant Modification - Bohunice V-1 VVER Power Station, European Union (PHARE)

Site electrical distribution upgrade and refurbishment sensibility study - Harwell, UKAEA

Living Probabilistic Safety Assessment - Leibstadt PWR Power Station, Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG

Justification to increase period between Statutory Outages - Dungeness B, Hinkley Point B, Heysham 1 and Hartlepool AGR Power Stations, Nuclear Electric

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Human Factors Assessment in Support of Continued Operation - Dungeness B AGR Power Station, Nuclear Electric