News from 2022

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Quintessa Relocates for Two Days

13 Jun 2022

On 10th and 11th May Quintessa employees held an offsite meeting at Nailcote Hall Hotel, Coventry, which provided us with a wonderful opportunity to socialise in an enjoyable non-work environment.

Biosphere Assessment for Radioactive Waste Disposal

6 Jun 2022

Updated international guidance for biosphere modelling in support of long-term safety assessments of solid radioactive waste disposal facilities through the IAEA MODARIA II programme and supported by the BIOPROTA forum.

Quintessa Prize Awarded to Bristol University Students

9 May 2022

In 2020, Quintessa established an annual prize for the best dissertation on the MSc Course in Nuclear Science and Engineering at the University of Bristol. The prize was established in recognition of the vision, enthusiasm and ethos of our founder, David Hodgkinson, who has encouraged many people t…

Quintessa presents at Waste Management Conference

29 Apr 2022

Louise Bruffell and Alan Paulley travelled to their first in-person event for two years, in order to present at the recent Waste Management conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

Rebecca Newson Interviewed by Employee Ownership Association

28 Apr 2022

Rebecca Newson, an elected employee trustee director at Quintessa, has been interviewed by the UK Employee Ownership Association (EOA). You can read about how a flat management structure helps us share control amongst our employee owners on the EOA Website.

Online Database of Bentonite Experiments Published

28 Apr 2022

As part of the Euratom Beacon (Bentonite Mechanical Evolution) project, Quintessa have compiled a database of experiments relevant to the mechanical evolution of bentonite that is now available on the Beacon website in a searchable webpage format.

Containment Risk Assessment (CRA) for Underground CO₂ Storage Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

4 Apr 2022

Organised by SPE Aberdeen and PESGB, the Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) virtual Conference was held from 21st to 24th February 2022, and featured current CCUS projects, case histories, technical initiatives, operating practices and panel discussions.

Vicky Gaskin joins Quintessa

18 Mar 2022

Quintessa is pleased to announce that Vicky Gaskin joined the company on 1st March 2022.

TESLA 2.2 Decision Support Software Released

17 Feb 2022

Version 2.2 of TESLA's decision support software, TESLA, has been released, introducing new features and improving quality, security and its future maintainability. The TESLA 2.2 Release Note describes changes in this version and the TESLA User Guide provides a comprehensive guide to its usage.

Well Decommissioning in the Energy Transition

10 Jan 2022

The UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) held a virtual conference on 7th-8th September 2021, with a dedicated poster session held on 16th November 2021, entitled “Delivering on COP26: CCS across the world”. The conference involved several prominent contributors who outlined sign…