Eden NE and our partners are delighted to have been awarded a place on the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's Direct Research Portfolio (2020-2024) for provision of "Nuclear Materials and Spent Fuels" services. Our team, which includes Integrated Decision Management (IDM), NSG Environmental Limited, Nuclear-21, TÜV UK and the University of Bristol...
Eden NE and our partners are delighted to have been awarded a place on the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's Direct Research Portfolio (2020-2024) for "Integrated Waste Management, Site Decommissioning and Remediation (IWM & SDR)". Our team, which includes Cyclife, Gardiner & Theobald, Golder, Hydrock, Integrated Decision Management (IDM)...
Eden NE recently produced a new version of the Waste Metrics Dashboard, including an accompanying Guidance Document and a Formula Booklet, for the National Waste Programme Office (NWPO). The Waste Metrics Dashboard is a tool to report progress made by the UK radioactive waste industry in terms of the volume of radioactive waste managed via disposal...
Eden NE have led or contributed to a significant number of projects let under the Sellafield Ltd environmental services framework. In particular we have established an expertise in the provision of Environmental Cases and advice relating to regulatory requirements under the provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act and the Euratom Treaty. Wor...
Eden NE are pleased to announce that as from 1st April 2020, the following promotions have been made. Dr Nick Mitchell has been promoted to Head of Assessments. He will take on a wider role advising our staff on radiological assessments and ensuring that staff are adequately trained in this area. Dr Ian Godfrey has been promoted to Senior Consultan...
Eden NE are pleased to welcome Dr Rosie Newton, who started as a Consultant on 2nd January 2020, having previously been a doctoral candidate at Lancaster University. Rosie obtained her PhD in Nuclear Engineering by researching "Characteristic responses of a COTS CCD to α, β–, and neutron-induced triton radiations, and strategies to reduce noise". T...
Eden NEwere recently awarded the contract to update the Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) of the NDA Strategy to align with the latest Strategy, which is currently undergoing its third five-year review and will be published in 2021. The IIA comprises the combined assessment results of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Health Impact Asses...
Eden NE are currently leading work for the NDA as a cross-industry initiative aimed to develop technical solutions for future supplies of the cement powders typically used to stabilise many kinds of low and intermediate level radioactive wastes. The work initially was centred on performing a two-phased desk-based review, to analyse current issues a...
We are pleased to announce that Eden NE were awarded a Cyber Essentials Plus certificate on 4 October 2019, following the independent verification of our cyber security by Certification Body ITGovernance. This award demonstrates our commitment to cyber security. Eden NE was first awarded Cyber Essentials on 5 January 2016 and has maintained Cyber E...
Eden NE are delighted to announce that it has been awarded a place on LLW Repository Ltd's framework contract covering the provision of Environmental Safety Case (ESC) support. Eden NE will be the sole supplier for Lot 1 – provision of ESC team support. We will work with LLW Repository Ltd to maintain and develop the next major iteration of the ESC...
Eden NE were contracted by NDA to update the NDA Value Framework, for which the consultation period has now been completed. The NDA Value Framework was first published in January 2016 as part of NDA's Strategy III, and will be used to support decision-making across the NDA estate. The NDA commissioned Eden NE to revise and update the existing Value...
Eden NE have been working with members of the NEA Task Group on Nuclear Site Remediation, acting as technical editor for a report drawing on the experience of site remediation in NEA countries. The report on the Strategic Considerations for the Sustainable Remediation of Nuclear Installations has now been published and is available from the NEA at ...
A series of papers have recently been published in Mineralogical Magazine by Eden NE staff. Shelly Mobbs, Andy Baker and Duncan Jackson have co-authored the following papers, which were the proceedings from a conference on the scientific and technological underpinning of the geological disposal of radioactive waste, held in Loughborough in October ...
A paper co-authored by Eden NE radiological expert Shelly Mobbs has been selected to be a featured article on the IOP Publishing site after reaching the top five downloaded publications of 2011*. The paper provides a review of the basis for current radiological risk estimates and can be downloaded here (http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/31/3/R01/...