INDUSTRY SECTORS OVERVIEW

Our range of specialist services is sought by the Nuclear, Petroleum, Geological, Geotechnical, Pharmaceutical and Cement Industries as well as Defence and Local Government sectors. We play a significant role in support of UK nuclear decommissioning projects through low level waste characterisation, radionuclide fingerprinting and contaminated land and building surveys. Our expertise also covers NORM analysis, XRF analysis, X-radiography, and laboratory-scale investigations (e.g. soil washing, electrokinetic soil treatment and decontamination of radionuclides).

• Nuclear & Non-Nuclear Waste Characterisation
• Waste Remediation Research
  • Removal of Pu contamination from soils
  • Removal of U and other contaminants from clay-rich soils
  • Study of soil washing for tritium remediation
  • Decontamination of aqueous solutions using bone-char
• Petroleum Sector
  • NORM Analysis
  • Analysis of catalyst residues from marine fuel oils
  • Core logging and interpretation
    (X-radiography, non-destructive XRF analysis)
  • ItraX combined radiography and XRF core logger