Nuclear Plant Waste Solutions
Engineering & Technology
- Provide full design and engineering capabilities including industry standard 3D rendering/modeling capabilities
- Development of specialty water treatment medias
- Development of new technologies for the nuclear industry
- Successful development, testing, and implementation of specialized high activity liquid water processing systems at Fukushima
Process/ Mechanical Engineering
- Material balance & process flow calculations
- Production of process flow diagrams (PFDs) and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs)
- Complete shielding packages maximizing ALARA
- Licensed shielded transport cask
- Complete design/build capabilities for:
- Radwaste processing systems
- Coded pressure vessels
- Remote/automatic handling equipment maximizing ALARA
Control, Electrical & Information
- Instrumentation and control definition and design for all process and mechanical systems
- Full control system development (software & hardware) for PLC and DCS solutions
- Process and special radiological instrument design & specification (NDA/NDE)
- Load analysis and power distribution
- CCTV and communication systems
Nuclear Engineering, Radiological Safety & Quality Assurance. Identification of radioactive source terms, Calculation of area dose rates, Shielding analysis, ALARA studies.
Liquid Waste Processing Systems
- Specializing in Ion-Exchange (IE), Ultra-Filtration (UF), Reverse-Osmosis (RO), Spray Dryer, Concentrate Dryer, and Mechanical/Back-Flushable Filter Technologies
- NRC and SC-DHEC approved Dewatering Systems and Containers (including both Standard and Rapid Dewatering technologies)
- Full demand and emergency support services during outages and/or special projects at plants
- Process Chemistry: Expertise in nuclear waste processing and cleanup
- Flowsheet Development: Optimizing the flowsheet to fit project constraints
- Equipment Development: For both permanent and skid-mounted facilities, integrated closely with process chemistry and flowsheet development
- Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange Processes
- Radionuclide Chemistry: Utilizing our knowledge and understanding to resolve key radionuclide issues
- Solid-Liquid Separation including cross-flow filtration, micro-filtration (MF), ultra-filtration (UF), reverse-osmosis (RO), centrifuge, hydrocyclone
- Radioactive Sludge Retrieval, Stabilization, and Packaging:
- Successfully developed many specialty nuclear systems and components for the nuclear marketplace that are skid-mounted and allow for quick ease of deployment and future decommissioning with minimal impact on day-to-day plant operations grout encapsulation
- Ion exchange
- Cesium/strontium separation by solvent extraction
- Solid/liquid separation by ultrafiltration
- Nuclear power plant on-site liquid processing systems
Packaging
- Complete line of High Integrity Containers (HICs) & Steel Liners for wide variety of waste packaging needs (resin dewatering, solidification, high-rad trash, irradiated hardware, etc.)
- Complete line of “soft-sided” packages for a wide variety of waste packaging need (solid radwaste, debris, high-rad trash, DAW, etc.)
- Custom Navy
- Custom containers based on customer specifications, Pump Containers, CLPRCT, LPRCT, etc.
Fuel Pool Services
Spent Fuel Pool Services – Ability to provide complete turnkey fuel pool services including but not limited to:
- Volume reduction of irradiated hardware
- Consolidation and packaging
- Underwater transfer and container loading
- Cask transportation
- Fuel pool vacuuming
- Pool-to-pool transfers
- Waste characterization
- Shipment manifesting assistance and qualified brokering
- Specialty container designs for remote handling
