With operators working under tight controls in hazardous, physically demanding environments, successful decommissioning activities require careful planning and risk management.
The importance of decommissioning a building, plant, or equipment correctly is more critical than ever, with UK regulations requiring dismantling, decontamination, processing and disposal activities to be carried out in a way that’s safe and protects the environment.
CRA provides support to defuelling, decommissioning and deconstruction programmes. Our services include:
Running workshops and optioneering to develop optimal decommissioning strategies and methodologies;
Safety Case production (ALARP studies, fault schedules development, safety reviews, independent assessment and peer reviews, shielding and radiological assessment);
Advice on waste and material management, and produce safety cases for integrated waste management strategies and waste route optimisation;
Risk-informed decision making in decommissioning planning;
Human Factors (task analysis of proposed new decommissioning operations, human reliability analysis to assess the potential for human error, ergonomics assessment of new plant, human-machine interface design, and leadership and management for safety);
CRA is experienced in delivering challenging decommissioning and waste management projects for major nuclear companies such as EDF, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd, and AWE (Aldermaston) and smaller unique sites (Imperial College). Our teams have detailed plant knowledge from decades of experience support during plant during operations, defuel and decommissioning (AGR, Magnox) and experience of the full decommissioning life cycle from shutdown to delicensing.
