Services

Envirorad's capabilities and experience includes:

• in-situ radiation measurements using handheld instruments - (contamination, dose rate and radon)
• technologies for seeking radioactive hot particles
• radioactive waste management – waste segregation technology; use of natural analogues in support of geological disposal strategies
• radionuclide speciation and environmental mobility
• NORM surveys and assessments in the non-nuclear energy industries
• radiochemical methods – development, validation and application
• beta and gamma spectrometry
• mass spectrometry methods for isotopic fingerprinting
• proficiency testing of analytical services and laboratory auditing
• provision of Health, Safety, Security and Environment plans
• hazards analysis and provision of risk assessments and method statements
• writing work-scope, schedule and cost volumes for decommissioning programmes

we can also offer, in collaboration with specialist contractors, spatially-precise wide area radiation spectrometry surveys performed either overland or subsea.

Wherever and however radiation measurement results are obtained, these can be interpreted for a variety of purposes, for example:

• significance for health (radiological dose and risk assessment),
• physical and geochemical mobility of the contaminants
• for risk communication
• regulatory context (e.g. Radioactive Substances Act, Ionising Radiation Regulations),
• contaminated land assessments, from site conceptual model to generic and quantitative risk assessment for human and non-human receptors
• support remediation and waste management programmes (optioneering, BPEO, BPM) and
• assess provenance of the contamination (fingerprinting and nuclear forensics).