Projects - Waste Management |
Examples of waste management projects undertaken by AdvanSci staff include:
| Advice on consignor duties for transport of
radioactive materials |
| Scope: | Advice to importer and
exporter of new and end-of-life sealed sources on consignor duties for
transport of radioactive materials within and into the UK, including
variations in labelling, packaging and emergency arrangements for different
modes of transport within the UK and internationally. |
| National strategic BAT assessments for LLW
management |
| Client: | LLWR Limited |
| Scope: | Input to
three studies to identify generic strategic 'baseline' BAT options for
management of the UK's LLW organic, metallic and soil, concrete, rubble and
granular waste streams, to support development and delivery of the LLW National
Programme |
| Provision of radioactive waste advice to equine hospital |
| Client: | Valley Equine Hospital |
| Scope: | Provision of advice on
management of radioactive materials and wastes to
a specialist veterinary hospital which undertakes nuclear scintigraphy (bone scans) on
horses using Tc-99m isotope |
| Assessment of LLW storage facility design and operation |
| Client: | Hong Kong Government |
| Scope: | Assessment of Low Level Radioactive
Waste Storage Facility design and performance including audit and recommendations for follow-on
operation and maintenance contract |
| Management of waste I-125 brachytherapy 'seeds' |
| Client: | BXTAccelyon |
| Scope: | BAT assessment for management of surplus iodine 125 'seeds' (small sealed sources) manufactured for
the treatment of cancer. Support to establish a management service to
hospitals and clinics, including advice on transport and permitting requirements for decay storage. |
| BPEO and BPM assessments for radioactive waste
disposals |
| Client: | Confidential |
| Scope: | Assessment of whether
existing solid, liquid and aerial disposal routes from an operational nuclear
facility continue to represent BPEO, and BPM reviews of waste minimisation practices
and activity assessment methods, with strategy for improvements |
| Preliminary Environmental Case for ILW
encapsulation plant |
| Client: | Sellafield Limited |
| Scope: | Development of BAT
assessment methodology and preparation of Preliminary Environmental Case for
a proposed new plant to treat and package Miscellaneous Beta-Gamma Wastes
from a high-hazard legacy nuclear facility |
| Authorisation for disposal of LLW at Clifton Marsh landfill |
| Client: | Sita |
| Scope: | Strategic, commercial and technical support
in connection with Environmental Permit application for the disposal of High Volume
VLLW and LLW, including inventory development, review of radiological risk and
capacity assessment, and final Article 37 submission |
| Proposed Keekle Head LLW disposal facility |
| Client: | Sita |
| Scope: | Strategic, commercial and technical support
for development of a dedicated LLW disposal facility, including feasibility studies,
inventory development, and market assessment |
| Remedial design for former asbestos landfill |
| Scope: | Assessment of contamination,
remedial design, wastes management and site safety aspects for construction of a sewage
treatment works on a former dockyard landfill, including a perimeter cut-off and landfill gas
control measures |
| Investigation and design of landfill remediation works |
| Scope: | Investigation and assessment
of contamination at a former domestic landfill. Design and specification of capping and
perimeter containment, gas venting and leachate drainage systems for site redevelopment
as an office, car park and recreation ground, including construction of a road over
the capping system. |
| Emergency remediation of fly-tipped hazardous waste |
| Scope: | Design of emergency remediation works to
safeguard local residents from fugitive dust and caustic leachate derived from highly
contaminated fly-tipped waste at a former industrial waste disposal site |
| NORM waste management |
| For examples of further projects related to the
management of NORM wastes, please click here |
These are just examples to illustrate the range of work
performed. For further information on any of these projects, or our other
experience, please contact us.
