Waste Management
We offer a full range of waste management activities for both the nuclear and non-nuclear sectors. We work with our clients across all stages of the waste lifecycle from initial inventory and waste assessment through to waste processing and packaging through to compliant waste disposals. We have multiple years of international experience that is recognised as industry best practise and gained regulator acceptance. Working with our support network we can offer cost effective, efficient, innovative and compliant waste solutions to any decommissioning or operational project.
Our waste management activities include; waste inventories, development of waste tracking systems, waste assessments/characterisation, waste processing and packaging and final waste consignments as well as development of waste management quality assurance systems that gain regulator acknowledgement as best practise. As part of our services we can develop training packages to ensure that all personnel both by us and the client are fully assessed as being SQEP (suitably qualified and experienced personnel).
Additionally, we have broad experience in the preparation of regulatory documents including permits, license applications, waste tracking, annual reports and shipping documents and providing guidance in implementation of waste minimisation and recycling programmes.
Our internal waste risk management programme provides client with results of recent offsite waste management facility assessments to support identification and coordination with offsite waste management facilities to reduce or minimise corporate risk.
Waste Characterisaton
Proper waste characterisation plays a crucial part in any project generating waste. To balance environmental sampling and analysis costs with the need for sound environmental data that address regulatory requirements and stakeholder concerns, we implement the principles of Data Quality Objectives (DQO). Use of these principles allows for streamlined procedures, minimised time requirements, and elimination of unnecessary sample collection and costs.
Our staff has extensive international waste characterisation experience implementing the principles of DQO at industrial, government and decommissioning facilities. At nuclear decommissioning facilities, we also undertake characterisation and decision making activities consistent with the priniples of governing Nuclear Industry Code of Practices (NiCoP), Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual (MARSSIM), the Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Assessment of Materials and Equipment Manual (MARSAME) and the European Radiation Survey and Site Execution Manual (EURSSEM). Through our characterisation approach, we are able to identifying appropriate waste processing and disposition options in alignment with the waste hierarchy.