News from 2012

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International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies (GHGT-11)

22 Nov 2012

Richard Metcalfe, Alan Paulley and Hiroyasu Takase of Quintessa participated in the GHGT-11 conference on greenhouse gas technologies held in Kyoto, Japan between 18th and 22nd November 2012. They made presentations covering the wide range of Quintessa's activities in the field of Carbon Capture a…

Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers for Radioactive Waste Confinement

30 Oct 2012

James Wilson and Claire Watson recently attended the 5th International Meeting 'Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers for Radioactive Waste Confinement' in Montpellier, France. This series of meetings, held every 2-3 years, brings together specialists from the many different disciplines related…

Scenarios for Potential Impacts from Hypothetical Leakage from CO₂ Geological Storage Facilities

6 Sep 2012

As a contribution to the European RISCS project, Quintessa staff have authored a report on scenarios for potential impacts that might be caused by hypothetical carbon dioxide leakage from geological storage facilities.

TESLA 2.1 Released

31 Aug 2012

A major update of Quintessa's decision support software (TESLA Version 2.1) has been released incorporating a host of new features designed to make it easier to analyse, present and audit decisions.

Graphite Optimisation

15 Aug 2012

Quintessa is providing support to the participation of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) in the European Commission (EC) CARBOWASTE project, which is exploring options for the management and disposal of irradiated graphite.

IAEA Mission to Jordan

9 Aug 2012

Michael Egan supported a successful recent IAEA workshop on radioactive waste management held in Amman, Jordan (15-19 July 2012). The aim of the workshop was to provide training and guidance on principles, requirements and best practice in safety management issues and safety case development relat…

Non-encapsulated Waste

8 Aug 2012

Quintessa has undertaken a study for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (NDA RWMD) to examine the post-closure safety implications of proposals for the direct packaging of Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) in standard containers without the use of any encaps…

QPAC Overview Report

15 Jun 2012

A new version of the QPAC Overview Report has been released. QPAC is Quintessa’s general-purpose modelling tool, used within our core consultancy business to address a wide range of problems including those with strongly coupled nonlinear processes.

Update of PRISM Food Chain Modelling Software

30 Mar 2012

Quintessa has delivered an updated version of the PRISM food chain modelling software to the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA).

CO2ReMoVe Closing Conference

29 Feb 2012

The closing conference of CO2ReMoVe, an EU project on CO2 storage, was held in Paris on the 29th February 2012. The six-year project involved over 30 partners from research and industry organisations in Europe and beyond. A key conclusion is that results from all the sites indicate that underground…

Pakistan National Training Course on GoldSim Modelling

12 Jan 2012

In December 2011 Alex Bond gave a five-day training course to scientists from Pakistan on the application of GoldSim to assessing the safety of a near-surface repository for low-level radioactive waste.

Supporting Reactor Inspections with Data Visualisation

12 Jan 2012

At the British Carbon Group conference “Modelling and Measuring Reactor Core Graphite Properties and Performance” held at Aston University, Quintessa presented two software applications (CHANSELA and PANDA) designed for visualising data relating to graphite reactor cores.

Kate Thatcher joins Quintessa

4 Jan 2012

Kate Thatcher has joined Quintessa's Warrington office where she is part of the geosciences team. Kate has a degree in earth sciences from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in hydrogeology from the University of Birmingham. During her PhD research, Kate developed skills in multiphase flow model…