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Visit from our neighbours at Trawsfynydd

The Magnox decommissioning nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd is just 30 miles away from our workshop in North Wales

  • Posted On: 18 December 2018
Visit from our neighbours at Trawsfynydd
Last year we were fortunate to deploy ViridiScope on site, working with Doosan engineers on the ponds complex. After a successful trial we were delighted to host a team from Magnox keen to familiarise themselves with the operation of ViridiScope and in-situ counting equipment. Theirs was the first of a series of demonstrations we are holding at the workshop for Tier1 and Tier2 companies with an interest in our innovative nuclear characterisation tools
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Viridian receives NDA Supply Chain Award

Viridian Consultants was presented with the prestigious Minister’s Award at the NDA Supply Chain Event in Manchester

  • Posted On: 2 November 2018
Viridian receives NDA Supply Chain Award The winners of this year’s six NDA Group Supply Chain Awards were announced to a packed audience in Manchester yesterday. The Minister’s SME award is selected from all submissions and recognises the value, flexibility and innovation that SMEs bring to the mission. It was presented to Viridian Consultants for their ViridiScope® project entitled ‘Deployment of an innovative portable laser-sampling tool’. Professor Kym Jarvis, MD, Viridian Consultants says: ‘We are delighted to receive such a...
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A novel remote deployment of ViridiScope®

The most recent demonstration of our laser sampling tool was on a pond wall at the NNL Non-Active Rig Hall

  • Posted On: 8 October 2018
A novel remote deployment of ViridiScope® The challenge was to sample a pond wall from above, in a situation where it was not possible to use a robot. The answer was an extendable pole that was lowered down to the sampling point. The question was ‘how will we know the sampling head is in contact with the wall when we are sampling?’ The answer is easy. The sampling head has proximity sensors designed to control the laser power for safety reasons: if the head moves away from the surface, the laser cuts out. So, unless the head is in...
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ViridiScan® successfully demonstrated on a nuclear site!

Our latest nuclear characterisation tool, ViridiScan®, has been demonstrated successfully in front of an invited audience of nuclear experts

  • Posted On: 25 September 2018
ViridiScan® successfully demonstrated on a nuclear site! Characterisation experts from site licence companies, the NDA and representatives from contractors working for the nuclear industry attended demonstrations of our new tool on site at Sellafield and in NNL’s Rig Hall, Workington.  We were delighted to show them how we can collect concrete with our laser sampling tool, ViridiScope®, and, within minutes, produce a solution suitable for analysis by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). This latest of our in situ analysis...
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The first on-site demonstration of ViridiScan® will take place at Sellafield

ViridiScan® will be put through its paces for the first time on a nuclear site at Sellafield in September, followed by a second demonstration at the NNL Non-Active Rig Hall in Workington

  • Posted On: 15 August 2018
The first on-site demonstration of ViridiScan® will take place at Sellafield ViridiScan® is a highly innovative instrumental solution for on-site in-situ materials characterisation.  Our novel approach uses a laser to remove surface material, which is transported to a sample collection pod in a safe area, located up to 20 metres away, where it will be processed and analysed in-situ by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry – a powerful tool for isotopic analysis. This will avoid the need to transport samples across site or even off site for analysis,...
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