A Complete Range of Specialized Services

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Analytical & Environmental Services

• Analytical chemistry & specialized services for the nuclear industry
• Characterization and identification of all types of materials
• Quality systems and standards
• Laboratory information & management systems
• Generic chemical measurements & sampling protocols
• Soil remediation / decontamination
• Transformer oil
• Environmental impact assessment & mitigation
  • Contaminated lands – environmental site assessments
  • Site investigation, contaminant delineation & migration assessment
  • Risk assessment, risk management/mitigation options (e.g. petroleum hydrocarbons, metals (arsenic))Contaminant Hydrogeology (chemical and physical)
• Groundwater Modeling
• Air Quality and Climate Change 
• Emission: Characterization, monitoring & control
• Atmospheric modeling (dispersion, transformation & deposition)Evaluation of environmental hazard/risk assessment
• Stack sampling for mercury and PM 10/PM2.5
• Precipitation monitoring
• Tracer gas techniques
• Environmental audits
• Radiochemistry and chemical analysis
• Site enhancement – bio-diversity, site greening, efficiency
• Mercury, heavy metals and analytical control
• Application of NO_x & SO_x Controls to Coal Blends

Nuclear Waste & Tritium Solutions

• Nuclear Waste Management
• Characterization and modeling of solid wastes
• Application of scaling factor
• Immobilization of low / intermediate level liquid wastes
• Characterization & assessment of solid waste containers / containment areas
• Airborne gas/vapor dosimetry
• Tritium Solutions
  • Tritium system design / build and management expertise
  • Environmental Assessments
• Resin Testing & Process Chemistry
• QA/QC testing for resins
  • Assessment of suitability of new IX resins for existing /  new applications
• Removal of C-14 from solid wastes using super critical extraction technology

Materials and Component Health

• Risk-Based Maintenance Solutions
• Metallography/metallurgical/mechanical testing
• Forensic technical investigations and root cause analyses                                                                                                                  
• Degradation mechanisms: creep, fatigue, fracture
• Materials characterization / microstructural analyses
• Materials selection/performance
• Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
• Corrosion: electro-chemical, Micro-biologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC), protection, control, monitoring
• Plant Chemistry: Primary Heat Transport System (PHTS), feed water, Corrosion Product Transport (CPT), chemical cleaning support & decontamination
• Fossil boiler tube & high energy piping failure / condition assessment
• Field support Cathodic Protection (CP), replication, instrumentation

Fuel Channel Integrity

Zirconium Metallurgy

• Support LCM programs of CANDU pressure tubes & other core components
• Experimental capability for corrosion & hydrogen ingress of pressure tubes
• Experimental capability for fracture & delayed hydride cracking of pressure tubes & other reactor core materials
• Experimental capability for creep, tension & fatigue testing of pressure tubes & other CANDU reactor core materials
• Development of custom-designed/specialized test procedures for CANDU core materials
• Microstructural & microchemical analysis of pressure tubes based on SEM and TEM
• Development of models to predict pressure tube performance

Analytical Fracture Mechanics

• Flaw disposition in pressure tubes, feeders  & steam generator tube
• Fitness for Service Guidelines developed and updated for pressure tubes and steam generator tubes
• Process zone fracture mechanics for blunt notches
• Component integrity analysis in support of plant operation
• Finite element stress analysis of flaws

Mechanical Engineering

• In situ measurements of stress, strain, pressure, temperature and other physical variables under hostile environments
• Computational dynamics, thermal-hydraulics, heat transfer and flow-induced vibration modeling and analysis

For more information contact John Krasznai, 416.207.6000 x6260 john.krasznai@kinectrics.com