Eden Nuclear and Environment Ltd. was established in 2007 to provide consultancy and management services in radioactive waste management and disposal. Since then we have grown to 12 technical staff and 2 business support staff.
Andy is Managing Director of Eden Nuclear and Environment. He has around thirty 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. Andy has extensive knowledge of the Sellafield site, gained during his time at the Environment Agency and as Lead Member of the Peer Review Committee for Contaminated Land for Sellafield. For the past four years, he has provided senior management and technical support, as Technical Integrator, to the development of the Low Level Waste Repository’s (LLWR’s) Environmental Safety Case (ESC). As such he has an in-depth knowledge of the LLWR site. He has been responsible for the technical approval of all LLWR ESC reports and work specifications and chairs a LLWR ESC-Monitoring Group. He co-authored an ESC report on the LLWR’s monitoring programme and has been responsible for the review and co-ordination of many LLWR monitoring programme documents. He has also undertaken work for NDA (RWMD), SKB and a number of UK and international organisations.
Duncan is Technical Director at Eden Nuclear and Environment and has 33 years’ 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 several Environmental Safety Cases for the disposal of radioactive waste and Environment Cases for the management of facilities and materials. Duncan was Technical Author for the nuclear industry guidance on BAT and for waste and materials Clearance and Exemption. Duncan has many years’ experience in stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation. He has been engaged to provide independent services on behalf of many clients, including the industry, regulators and local concern groups. Duncan has also provided training and lectured on approaches to optimisation. Duncan is a Chartered Radiation Protection Professional.
Tim 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. Since 2012, Tim has been heavily involved in impact assessments in support of permit applications for waste disposal sites; nuclear power stations in operation and decommissioning; and waste storage and treatment facilities. Tim is a certified RWA and a Chartered Radiation Protection Professional.
Nick has over 27 years’ experience providing a range of scientific modelling solutions covering radioactive material in the biosphere, rail infrastructure and municipal waste management activities. He has substantial experience supporting nuclear regulators; recently reviewing the behaviour of uranium series radionuclides in soils and plants, and assisting with support of the Food Standard Agency model PRISM. Nick also helps waste contractors procure and assess long-term management contracts through the development of predictive models for waste flows and process performance. He has also produced models to simulate and assess the uncertain deterioration of rail infrastructure for Network Rail and London Underground. He is currently a contributing author to an IAEA publication on the behaviour of Uranium in the environment.
Paul has 10 years’ experience in mathematical and computational modelling, including the development of scientific software to model material properties. Since joining Eden Nuclear and Environment, he has applied these skills to develop and apply radiological dose models and models of radionuclide transport in the environment. He has experience in using models to perform radiological risk assessments, and to support the development of environmental safety cases and derivation of waste acceptance criteria for radioactive waste disposal facilities. Paul has supported the development of the LLWR’s Environmental Safety Case, including an application to vary the LLWR’s Permit. As part of these activities, he co-authored and edited a recent Article 37 submission for LLWR, assessing the LLWR’s radiological impact on neighbouring EU states. He is currently developing a BAT study into the disposal of stored wastes at the LLWR. He has also contributed to the development of a conceptual model to understand coastal and marine particles.
Tim obtained an undergraduate masters in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Warwick, before moving to Manchester, where he got a PhD in Atmospheric Science. Tim joined Eden Nuclear and Environment in 2015, and has since worked on a variety of projects including providing technical support to LLW Repository Ltd.’s Environmental Safety Case (ESC) team; helping to develop the NDA Value Framework and undertaking various human intrusion and other environmental radiological assessments to facilitate radioactive waste disposal across a number of UK nuclear sites. Tim has also contributed to numerous BAT assessments, completed work on site delicensing and investigated approaches to knowledge management to prevent intrusion into residual contamination after release from RSR.
