Radioactive Waste Processing
Comprehensive services that include characterization, R&D, design, packaging, processing, and the supply of processing equipment from industry-leading experts.
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Canada
Marcy Sanderson
VP, Strategic Growth and Innovation, CanadaOur Global Team
United States
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VP, Operations, United StatesOur Global Team
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Shahrokh Zangeneh
Chief Commercial Officer, International
Nuclear facilities produce wastes in a variety of forms. Some arise from routine operations, some from repeated but occasional maintenance activities, and others from one-off events. These waste forms must be appropriately controlled and managed to achieve cost-effective and safe, processing and disposal.
New approaches to waste management continue to evolve and include better characterization and sorting, volume reduction (compaction, concentration, incineration, decontamination), solidification, and repackaging. The wastes can be radioactive, potentially radioactive, hazardous and they can be solids, liquids, or gases.
We provide a comprehensive waste management service that includes waste characterization, research and development, design and supply of waste processing equipment, design and supply of waste packaging, and the provision of processing services. We work with very low-level, low-level, and intermediate-level radioactive waste, hazardous wastes, and mixed wastes.
Our Expertise in Radioactive Waste Processing
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Expertise and Experience
With over 20 years of experience in waste characterization, scaling factor development, chemistry, licensing, radiation protection, and health physics, it's not surprising that our key team members serve on the standards development committees that develop nuclear standards.
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Proven Techniques
Proven techniques are used to process and dispose of contaminated PCBs, and problematic mixed wastes, and extract carbon-14 from ion exchange resins. We have also managed drums of contaminated heavy water that were highly alkaline and contaminated with brine and tritium.
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Innovative Processes
We have developed and patented unique waste processes that solve some of the nuclear industry's biggest waste management challenges.
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Performance and Reliability
Our major projects are supported by our best-in-class project management office to ensure they achieve your objectives with a quality product in a timely manner.
Radioactive Waste Processing Technical Abilities
Capabilities
The radioactive waste services we provide include:
- Treatment and Disposal of Mixed Wastes (including PCB Contaminated)
- Processing of Low and Intermediate Level (L&ILW) Wastes
- Processing of Downgraded Heavy Water
- Clearance of Wastes including Empty Containers/Drums
- Surveying/Remediation of Contaminated Lands and Buildings
- Sampling and Characterization of L&ILW
- Applications of Gamma Spectrometry
- Scaling Factor Development
- Assessments in Support of Plant/Systems Decommissioning
- Non-Destructive Evaluation and Monitoring of Waste Containers
- Management of Spent Ion Exchange Resins
- Tritium and Carbon-14 Monitoring and Control
- Optioneering Assessments, R&D, and Consultation Services
- Process Simulation (Simul8)
- Design and Fabrication of Waste Processing Equipment
Experience
Some of the projects we have undertaken include:
- Innovative Solutions for No-Path forward/Orphaned Wastes
- Large Equipment Handling and Decontamination
- Treatment and Disposal of Mixed Waste
- Treatment, Conditioning and Packaging for Disposal of Low and Intermediate Level Waste: A Techno-Economic Assessment
- Reference Scaling Factors for OPG’s Low and Intermediate Level Waste
- Port Hope Small Scale Site Survey
- Radionuclide Inventory Estimate for Ontario Power Generation’s Decommissioning Waste
- Radiochemical Characterizations, Lab Support
- Recovery and Over-packing of Carbon Steel Resin Liners for a Nuclear Waste Management Facility
- Universal Separation Process (USEP)
- SCEPTER™ Process
- PCB Destruction Process
- PCB Decontamination Process
- Waste Characterization
Related Capabilities
Our Proven Experience
Quality Assurance & Technical Standards
- 10CFR50 Appendix B (2021)
- Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants
- ISO 17025
- Testing & Calibration Laboratories
- ISO 9001:2015 (2015)
- Quality management systems
- WNSL-W2-3850.01/2028
- Waste Nuclear Substance Licence
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