Serco Assurance's Criticality Services Team provides a comprehensive and integrated source of criticality expertise which is ready to assist you to meet your project requirements.

 

Our capabilities include:

• criticality safety analysis/assessment
• production of independent peer reviews
• detailed knowledge of regulatory requirements
• broad design and operational support experience
• skilled usage of calculation tools from the ANSWERS Software Service (MONK,WIMS) as well as other international criticality codes (KENO, MCNP)
• Supplementary skills in calculation methods and limitations, nuclear data and experimental activities
• Training

Your plant is safe from accidental criticality. Certainly.

 

But could it be safer - and more economic to run?

 

Are the right criticality constraints being applied in the right places?

 

Are your workers struggling to meet obsolescent clearance conditions written for operations which have since changed?

 

Our team has wide experience of modern criticality assessment over the entire range of fissile systems encountered throughout the nuclear fuel cycle. From fuel manufacture to storage and waste operations, we are specialists in criticality assessment of the unusual as well as of the routine.

Our aim is to help plant operators, to make their lives easier, not more difficult. We will re-assess your plant, and determine the real criticality constraints. In close co-operation with you - the operator - we will set the limits based on how the plant is really run, not how it used to run 10 years ago. If you’re still at the design stage we can help you avoid criticality problems well in advance.

 

Our tools range from tape-measures and handbooks to the most advanced computer software and hardware available. We combine the best of the practical down-to-earth approach with the latest theoretical methods. So if you are being constrained by some inflexible criticality limits, or are wanting to raise your enrichments, or change your operations - or just want to save hassle and time and money -contact us. We aim to make your fissile plant operations safer, easier and more economic. Your plant is safe from accidental criticality. Certainly. But could it be safer - and more economic to run? Are the right criticality constraints being applied in the right places? Are your workers struggling to meet obsolescent clearance conditions written for operations which have since changed?

 

Here’s where we’ve helped:

• Criticality Assessment
  • Dry and wet fuel stores
  • Shipping Casks
  • Spent fuel repackaging
  • Waste storage
    
• Regulatory Support
  • Fuel transport
  • Waste repository
  • IAEA Guidelines
  • Peer review
    
• Operations Support
  • Reprocessing operations
  • Utility operations
  • Decommissioning
  • Research reactors
    
• Design Support
  • Shipping Casks
  • Fuel stores
  • Decommissioning planning
    
• Methods Development
  • Burnup credit
  • Software development
  • Nuclear data validation

Contact us to see how we can help you

 

UK Office
Call: +44 (0)1305 851195
Fax: +44 (0)1305 851105
email: answers@sercoassurance.com