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In Feb 2017, we advertised for an engineer

The role was originally offered as a six month contract to work on our major “first of a kind” deployment project, but soon we will be celebrating Christopher Bateman being part of the team at Viridian Consultants Ltd for six years!

  • Posted On: 22 February 2023
In Feb 2017, we advertised for an engineer

During that time he has faced the wide variety of challenges and stringent requirements involved in taking our equipment onto decommissioning nuclear licensed sites – always remaining calm under pressure.
 

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Viridian Consultants at ICOND

Viridian was delighted to be invited to speak about our laser sampler at the ‘International Conference on Nuclear Decommissioning’

  • Posted On: 15 November 2022
Viridian Consultants at ICOND Our contribution, entitled ‘Site Characterization with ViridiScope, a Laser Tool for Remote Sampling’, was presented at the workshop on decommissioning services and products yesterday. Other contributors to the session included Nuvia, Framatome, Nukem & Mirion. ICOND is the leading decommissioning conference in the EU, with more than 300 international participants, more than 40 exhibitors and more than 35 professional speakers. The conference is organized by the Aachen...
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Viridian continues to support characterisation work at Sellafield

Viridian travelled to St Bees last week when Cavendish Nuclear hosted their annual Supply Chain Partner event for the Radiometric Characterisation Services (RCS) framework in support of Sellafield Ltd.

  • Posted On: 26 October 2022
Viridian continues to support characterisation work at Sellafield

It was great to meet up with our six Supply Chain partners: Cavendish Nuclear, Orano Limited, Pajarito Scientific Corporation, NUVIA, University of Bristol and React Engineering Limited to hear about recent developments. There were workshops on typical challenges faced by Sellafield, including scenarios where laser sampling could help make characterisation safer, faster and more cost effectively. 
 

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Enjoying life in the Innovation Zone

Our laser sampler was still at the prototype stage when Viridian Consultants Ltd first exhibited in the Innovation Zone at the NDA Supply Chain Event in 2015

  • Posted On: 25 July 2022
Enjoying life in the Innovation Zone A year later we were able to demonstrate how ViridiScope can be used for radiometric characterisation.  Then we were back in the Zone with our portable ICPMS , adding isotopics and stable elements to our toolbox. Finally, in 2018, following deployments for Magnox Ltd, EDF (UK), Nuclear Waste Services and Sellafield Ltd, we were awarded the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Minister’s Award. So this year we felt like old hands as we introduced our new collaborators HausBots to...
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Viridian at the NNL Advanced Nuclear Skills and Innovation Campus Showcase

Funded by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and delivered by NNL, the ANSIC pilot is integrated with NNL’s Preston Laboratory and has served as a research and innovation hub delivering an array of projects, inspiring the next generation of nuclear scientists.

  • Posted On: 22 March 2022
Viridian at the NNL Advanced Nuclear Skills and Innovation Campus Showcase The ANSIC pilot was developed to enable the UK to harness new and advanced nuclear technologies (ANTs), recognised in the government’s Energy White Paper and Ten Point Plan to meet net zero by 2050. The showcase is set to highlight industry and academia collaborations enabled by ANSIC, including Viridian’s feasibility study to enable activities typically carried out in research reactors to be conducted within advanced nuclear reactors without affecting primary reactor operations...
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