News from 2006

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Slovenian LILW Management

4 Dec 2006

Quintessa, with the support of consortium partners SCK-CEN, Belgatom and the Josef Stefan Institute, has just completed a contract under the European Commission's PHARE nuclear safety programme to provide assistance in the development of conceptual design for the LILW repository programme in Sloven…

Fellowship Visit by Thana Karupiah of MINT

20 Nov 2006

Quintessa was pleased to host Thana Karupiah of the Malaysian Institute for Nuclear Technology Research (MINT) for a one month fellowship in the summer at the Henley-on-Thames office.

New AMBER Release

15 Nov 2006

A new version of the AMBER compartment modelling tool has recently been released. AMBER is a generic tool that incorporates many powerful features that enable users to build, run and explore complex contaminant transport models.

Postclosure safety assessment of Canadian DGR

13 Nov 2006

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is proposing to build a Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) for Low and Intermediate Level Waste near the existing Western Waste Management Facility at the Bruce Site in Ontario.

End State of the Chapelcross Site

9 Nov 2006

The 'End State' of a nuclear site is its physical condition when decommissioning and clean-up has finished. It might include infrastructure and buildings as well as any residual contamination or waste.

Support for the Identification of the End State of the Dounreay Site

24 Jul 2006

NDA is requiring site licensees to develop proposals for the End State of its sites, working with local stakeholder groups.

Public consultation on Policy for the Long-term Management of solid Low Level Radioactive Waste in the UK

2 Jun 2006

DEFRA has recently initiated a consultation on the UK's management strategy for solid Low Level Radioactive Waste.

CoRWM Draft Recommendations

19 May 2006

The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) delivered its draft recommendations for the long-term management of the UK's intermediate and high-level radioactive waste in Brighton on 27 April.

Support to the Development of the Lifetime Plan for the Low-level Waste Repository at Drigg

17 May 2006

The long-term safety of the Low-level Waste Repository (LLWR) near the village of Drigg, Cumbria was assessed in 2002 and submitted to the regulator, the Environment Agency, as part of a review of the continued authorisation of the facility.

EC CO2ReMoVe Project Launched

12 May 2006

An extensive new research programme into the long-term potential for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions was launched today by a consortium of leading energy industrial companies, research organizations and the European Union.

Publication of results from the Tono Natural Analogue Project, Japan

8 May 2006

Quintessa has contributed to a thematic set of papers that describe results from the Tono Natural Analogue Project (TAP), which focused on the Tsukiyoshi uranium ore body in the Tono area of central Honshu, Japan.

Post-Closure Safety Case for the Dounreay Shaft

5 May 2006

UKAEA has recently issued a contract to Quintessa to develop the next two issues of the Preliminary Post-Closure Safety Case (PCSC) for the Dounreay Shaft, building on our previous work to successfully establish the Preliminary PCSC for the Shaft. Image Courtesy of Dounreay Restoration Site Ltd…

Comments from Stakeholders Sought on a Methodology for the Quantitative Risk Assessment of Radioactively Contaminated Land

12 Jan 2006

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is extending the existing contaminated land regime under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to cover radioactivity.