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. Full details…

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. Full details…

Spirit Energy holds Carbon Dioxide Appraisal and Storage (CS) Licence CS010 for developing the depleted South and North Morecambe gas fields to provide permanent, safe and secure carbon storage. Quintessa supported Spirit Energy’s application for CS010 and has continued to provide support in Containment Risk Assessment and developing Monitoring and Corrective Measures Plans through the Appraise Phase of the Licence. Full details…

In March, Quintessa delivered two five-day training courses on the safety assessment of near-surface disposal of radioactive waste and the associated application of the AMBER software tool. The courses were tailored to support the assessment of the proposed Romanian disposal facility (DFDSMA) for short-lived low and intermediate radioactive waste (LILW-SL) which is being undertaken by Kinectrics Nuclear Romania (KNR) under contract to the Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Agency (ANDR). Full details…

It has been an exciting (and in many ways unpredictable!) World Cup. As the dust settles, we can see how Quintessa’s sports rating algorithm ("N-estimates") has performed compared with expert judgement and Microsoft Copilot. Full details…

As part of the Company’s continuing planning for its future, Quintessa has appointed five new directors from 1st May 2026, who between them have more than 80 years’ experience working for Quintessa. It has also recently welcomed Millie Gibbons from the University of Bath and Pat Watt from the University of Manchester as they start their placement year with us as part of undergraduate courses in Physics and Mathematics, respectively.