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Planning for Quintessa’s Sustainable Future

1 May 2026

As part of the Company’s continuing planning for its future, Quintessa has appointed five new directors from 1st May 2026 (Amy Taylor, Claire Watson, Russell Walke, Steve Benbow and Vicky Newling), who between them have more than 80 years’ experience working for Quintessa.

Quintessa Students Achieve Second Place in NEA Coding Competition

16 Apr 2026

Quintessa placement students, Ben Porter and Danny Bosworth, have achieved second place in a global coding competition run by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), with a focus on applying large language models (LLMs) and AI techniques to the processing of risk registers.

Quintessa attends WM2026

15 Apr 2026

Alan Paulley and Sam Parsons attended the 52nd Annual Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix, Arizona. Quintessa has been attending the Waste Management Symposia since the mid-2000s and Alan is on the Programme Advisory Group, the steering committee for the conference.

Quintessa becomes Member of OEUK

14 Jan 2026

We are pleased to announce that Quintessa is now a member of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), the leading trade association for the UK offshore energy industry, a not-for-profit membership organisation with a history spanning five decades.

Continuing support to NRS Dounreay

13 Jan 2026

Quintessa's specialists are continuing to work with NRS Dounreay to develop a robust and optimised groundwater monitoring strategy which will provide long term and reliable data required to assess the impacts of waste retrievals and future closure of the Shaft.

Quintessa attends the Employee Ownership Association Annual Conference 2025

15 Dec 2025

The 2025 Employee Ownership Association (EOA) Annual Conference was held on 25th and 26th November at Telford International Centre, and was attended by Josh Nicholas and Vicky Newling on behalf of Quintessa.

Quintessa participates in the 4th Workshop of DECOVALEX-2027

12 Dec 2025

Quintessa recently participated in the 4th Workshop of DECOVALEX-2027 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California.

Quintessa Attends EAGE GET 2025

21 Nov 2025

Josh Nicholas and Peter Webb recently attended the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) conference at EAGE Global Energy Transition 2025 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

AMBER 6.8 Release

17 Nov 2025

Quintessa is pleased to announce that the latest version of AMBER has been released. AMBER 6.8 introduces the capability of using Software Licensing (SL) keys associated with a specific PC as an alternative to the existing Hardware Licensing (HL) keys (USB).

Former Quintessa placement student awarded prize

30 Oct 2025

Quintessa is pleased to share that former placement student Rosie Burt has recently been awarded a prize for creating one of the top five placement posters in the Mathematical Sciences department at the University of Bath.