Viridian Consultants

Viridian Consultants win prestigious EDF Energy Pulse award

Viridian is overall winner in the EDF Energy competition aimed at finding new ways of inspecting and monitoring its UK nuclear power plants

Posted On: 6 December 2016

The EDF Energy Pulse awards promote innovation and contributes to the developments of the future. Their goal is to showcase and provide tangible support to start-ups that are helping to shape that future. The French state-owned utility operates 14 advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs), which provide about 18% of the UK's electricity. In a statement, EDF Energy said it has designed its R & D programme to show how it will extend the operating periods of their...

Kym Jarvis writes for the Huffington Post

Kym's blog on being a winner of the Infocus Women in Innovation campaign

Posted On: 1 December 2016

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Professor Kym Jarvis is named as a top inventor by the Government

Kym has been awarded £50,000 as part of Innovate UK's Women in Innovation award

Posted On: 15 November 2016

Professor Kym Jarvis is named as a top inventor by the Government

Today Innovate UK announced the names of the 15 top women inventors who will share £750,000 of government funding. Innovate UK, the government's innovation agency, is seeking to redress the disproportion in the number of female applicants in their competitions, through a package of business support and a £50,000 individual grant to develop their innovations. Kym will use the money to test the concept of a new tool, ViridiScreen® which will measure radioactive contamination on a surface and,...