Meet the Team
Eden Nuclear and Environment was established in 2007 to provide consultancy and management services in radioactive waste management and disposal. Based in the Eden valley in Cumbria, Eden Nuclear and Environment has developed a strong client base and market presence supporting national and international clients. 

Andy Baker

Duncan Jackson

Andy is Managing Director of Eden Nuclear and Environment, and has twenty years’ experience in dealing with technical issues relating to radioactive waste management and disposal. His key expertise is in the management and technical co-ordination of safety cases and safety assessments for repositories. He has recently been providing technical support to the Low Level Waste Repository for the 2011 Environmental Safety Case and has been undertaking work for NDA (RWMD) and SKB.

Duncan is Technical Director at Eden Nuclear and Environment and has 28 years of experience in the nuclear industry. His expertise covers a range of environmental and radiological protection activities, review of safety cases, authorisation submissions and environmental monitoring. He is also a leading expert in biosphere assessment for waste disposal facilities. He has been involved in the preparation of an ESC for a near surface repository and has authored the nuclear industry best practice guidance on BAT and Clearance and Exemption.

 Shelly Mobbs

William Kirk

Shelly has 30 years of experience of radiation protection at HPA (formerly NRPB), and was Leader of the Waste Management Group of the Radiation Protection Division before joining Eden. She brings a wealth of experience of the disposal of radioactive waste and assessments of radioactively contaminated land. Her work has also included the development of radiation protection standards for the protection of people at work and the public and the development of a Recovery Handbook for Response to Radiation Incidents.

William is Associate Director at Eden NE and has 24 years experience in environmental risk and liability including specific competencies in land quality, strategic asset management, pollution control, environmental due diligence, social housing and financial modelling.  William typically works on strategic projects in managing risk and liability for government, industry and large land portfolio owners.  Recent projects have included supporting SEPA with their sustainable funding strategy, the Irish EPA on their industrial financial provisioning and Dublin CC on a strategic review of Dublin Docklands.  William has been instrumental in risk and financial modelling of industrial facilities, risk profiling of social housing portfolios and mobile workflow systems to support effective land portfolio liability management.

Tim Soetens

Rhiannon George

Dr. Tim Soetens brings a wealth of experience from the Belgian nuclear sector. His main field of expertise is radiological characterisation of waste, although he also has a strong background in waste management, disposal and radiological safety. Trained mathematical physicist Tim’s view on projects maintains a healthy balance between scientific modelling and overall achievability. His past projects include uncertainty management of Belgian radioactive waste, qualification of Belgian producers’ radiological measurement equipment and radiological safety assessments for ONDRAF/NIRAS’s near surface disposal facility and for the replacement of steam generators at the Doel nuclear power plant.



Senior Consultant at Eden Nuclear and Environment, Rhiannon has an extensive academic background in radioactive isotope geochemistry and experience of environmental risk assessment, environmental monitoring and contaminated land. Since joining Eden Nuclear and Environment, she has been providing support to the LLWR’s 2011 Environmental Safety Case and to URENCO UK in the preparation of a range of regulatory submissions.


 Adrian Punt

Karen Smith

Adrian is an Associate at Eden Nuclear and Environment. Adrian has provided consultancy support to new nuclear build utilities, operational and decommissioning nuclear sites, ‘smaller users’ as well as the Environment Agency and SEPA. He has extensive experience in the areas of radioactive and integrated waste management, radiological assessments and environmental radioactivity.

An Associate at Eden Nuclear and Environment, Karen is a trained ecotoxicologist with extensive experience of supporting the nuclear industry and regulators, particularly in the areas of non-human biota dose assessment and biosphere processes. She has provided technical secretariat support to the IAEA, the BIOPROTA international forum, the EC TMT programme and the SEPA Dounreay Particle Advisory Group. Karen has also worked with UK nuclear licensed sites in the development of Integrated Waste Strategies, radioactive waste optioneering and assessment studies to underpin RSA93 licence applications.

 


Jennifer Holliday

Associates

 Jennifer is Eden Nuclear and Environment’s Business Administrator. She brings a wealth of experience of managing projects and achieving objectives in the public, private and not for profit sectors. Jennifer is a registered PRINCE2 Practitioner and a Member of the Institute of Business Consulting.

We also work closely with Associates to meet the needs of our clients. If you would be interested in working with us, please contact us.