| Safety Case Preparation and
Licensing Group
Contracts include:
AWE
In 2001, Nuclear Technologies
was awarded a Term Contract for Safety Consultancy
Services at AWE
Aldermaston, particularly concentrating on the management
of nuclear material movements. This has been extended
to include the provision of safety advice and documentation
to support the development of safety cases for various
decommissioning and plant refurbishment projects.
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British Nuclear Group
Provision
of a nuclear Safety Case Engineer at Oldbury Training Centre
for the PassPort Replacement Programme (PRP). PassPort is an
off-line system that supports the management of delivery of
the maintenance schedule and control of parts/consumables that
are to be used on safety related plant and other areas. PassPort
is used at Berkeley, Bradwell, Dungeness A, Hinkley Point A,
Oldbury, Sizewell, Trawsfynydd and Wylfa. Following successful
roll-out of this new services, this has led to Safety Case
support to the PassPort Support Group for ongoing support of
PassPort. This has involved project management activities and
delivering safety case related information to all sites, internal
governance bodies and also the NII. Other work has involved
safety assessments for the effect of a recent SAP upgrade.
Provision of Safety Case Support for the British Nuclear
Group Emergency Planning Group. This involved  preparing an
NSRS and associated safety report that justified the replacement
of the current British Nuclear Group Emergency Communication
Services, and their removal, following successful demonstration
of a new service based on the O2-Airwave system. This new
'Nuclear Industry Airwave System' is based on the same technology
(TETRA) and network (O2-Airwave) that is used by the UKs
emergency services. Further consultancy has been provided
to the sites with respect to individual site modifications.
UKAEA
| Nuclear Technologies supports UKAEA
in a broad raft of safety-related tasks. In 1998, the
company was awarded a continuing Term Contract for Scientific
Consultancy Services from Dounreay, against which numerous
orders have been placed. 
In addition Nuclear Technologies Safety Group has been
involved in contracts for:
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UKAEA Windscale
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UKAEA Culham
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UKAEA Windscale
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UK NIREX LTD
Safety work carried out for Nirex includes a project to strengthen
the link between the Nirex Phased Disposal Concept and the
ILW waste packaging performance criteria. This work included
the development and rewrite of the UK ILW waste packaging
specification and guidance.
BRITISH ENERGY GENERATION LTD
 The
following are recent and current contracts that Nuclear
Technologies are carrying out for British Energy Generation
Ltd:
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Services of Radiation Protection Advisor
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General Technical Support to Radwaste & Decommissioning
Group. This included a review of Hinkley Point
B
Radioactive Waste Safety Case, replicating where
applicable the Hunterston B deterministic FEA,
frequency
analysis and associated radiological consequences
for Hinkley Point B radioactive waste plant. Identification
of
any Hinkley Point B Radwaste Plant not covered
by an existing FEA. This included undertaking
a new FEA, frequency
analysis and radiological consequence assessment
for the affected Hinkley Point B Radwaste Plant.
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DEVONPORT ROYAL DOCKYARD LTD:
 A
team of highly respected Safety Case experts are subcontracted
to Devonport Royal Dockyard Ltd (DRDL), Plymouth.
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