Project details Category: Shielded Facilities Status: Complete Client: ESS For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives Aquila won the contract with ESS for the following scope of supply: Design of a suitable open/closing function for three regular concrete doors. Manufacturing of three complete concrete shield doors including the opening and closing functionality. Installation and…
Project details Category: Shielded Containment Cell Status: Complete For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives The Shielded Containment Cell (SCC) was required to protect operators involved in manipulating radioactive closed and open sources, related to the necessary analysis of nuclear material sampled in the field. Historically some samples have been supplied that exceed radioactive levels…
Project details Category: Shielded Facilities Status: Complete Client: Cavendish Nuclear For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives Aquila Nuclear Engineering designed and supplied the equipment and services required for pre-conditioning sludge wastes. The design receives and dewaters the sludge which will then be transferred to an external mixer and poured into a concrete box. About…
Project details Category: Transport and Packaging, Containment, Shielded Facilities Status: Complete Client: Gow’s Lybster Limited For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives Aquila was awarded the contract to design a receipt vessel, to store the pool of sodium remaining in the base of Dounreay’s Prototype Fast Reactor Vessel. The design also required a transport skid for…
Project details Category: Shielded Facilities Status: Complete Client: ICL Consort Reactor For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives The objective was to design, manufacture and install a temporary, cost effective solution for cropping control rods. The cropped control rods were being loaded into a 3726 Waste Flask used for transportation off site. About the client…
Project details Category: Shielded Facilities Status: Complete Client: Hull University (HU) For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives To design, manufacture and install shielded hot cells to be used within a preclinical facility, dealing with research into positron emitting isotopes (non-GMP) at Hull University. About the client Hull University has a reputation for world-class multi-disciplinary…
Project details Category: Shielded Facilities Status: Complete Client: Nuclear Medicines For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives Aquila, was asked to undertake a concept design which would allow for the remote posting of active material into a horizontal chute, within a shielded cell, and then empty the waste directly into a 200 litre drum, outside…
Project details Category: Shielded Facilities Status: Complete Client: Healthcare For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives Aquila was engaged to design, build and commission two Waste Posting Facilities (WPF). This included compliance with legislations and meeting essential safety requirements. About the client The market of nuclear healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services with expertise…
Project details Category: Shielded Facilities Status: Complete Client: UKAEA Culham CCFE For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives The objective was to design, manufacture, and install, a suite of Hot Cells at the UKAEA Culham site in Oxfordshire. The cells are used to accept irradiated material samples and prepare them for analysis, employing Scanning…
Project details Category: Shielded Facilities Status: Complete Client: Dalton Cumbrian Facility (DCF) For more information: Download PDF Aims and Objectives Aquila won the contract to scheme design, manufacture, and install, a set of hot cells for the Dalton Cumbrian Facility (DCF) University of Manchester. The cells are located at the end of a high energy…