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Civil and Nuclear Defence Industries

ABS Consulting has a fifty year heritage of supporting nuclear clients from design to decommissioning.

We have been involved in helping operators of nuclear installations meet their stringent nuclear safety regulatory requirements. Our consultancy services include all nuclear related installations.

  • Power Reactors
  • Research Reactors
  • Uranium Enrichment Facilities
  • Fuel Fabrication Facilities
  • Spent Fuel Reprocessing Plants
  • Nuclear Waste Stores
  • Dockyards for Nuclear Submarines
  • Weapons-Related Facilities

We have considerable experience in upgrading existing safety cases and supporting documentation to meet current standards, decommissioning and plant life extension studies.

The ABS Consulting approach to clients' problems is solution driven through hazard identification to management of any residual risk as illustrated below.

Our Approach is Solution-Driven

STEP 1

Hazard Identification

What can affect your organisation?

  • What can go wrong?

 

STEP 2

Risk Assessment

How will it affect your organisation?

  • What is the likelihood?
  • What are the damages or consequences?

 

STEP 3

Risk Management

What can you do about it?

  • Elimination (e.g. avoidance)
  • Mitigation (e.g. loss control)
  • Emergency Planning

 

We employ a combined safety and engineering philosophy to substantiate our client’s nuclear facilities and have an extensive range of services as illustrated.

We provide a comprehensive service for the production, presentation and ongoing maintenance of safety documentation to a broad client base in the nuclear sector. An important element of our service is the provision of advice on safety goals, objectives and functional requirements which must be met and substantiated by the associated plant operations.

Our clients include...

AWE, BNFL, British Energy, Magnox Electric, Rolls Royce Power Engineering, Urenco, DML, BAe Systems, Stothert & Pitt, NIS, RTS, Butterley Engineering.

 

For more information:

E-mail: EnquiriesUK@absconsulting.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 1925 287300

 

     
     
Safety and Reliability
Hazard Identification
Deterministic Safety Assessments
Probabilistic Safety Assessments
Availability, Reliability and Maintainability
Independent Peer Review
Engineering Substantiation
Extreme Loads Assessment
Natural Hazards
Impact, Shock and Blast
Walkdowns
Crane Assessment
Nuclear Transport Flask Assessment

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