Nuclear safety services

AREVA Risk Management Consulting Ltd has extensive experience in assessing risks to the public, the workforce and the environment associated with the design, construction, operation, management and decommissioning of nuclear plant and processes.

AREVA RMC provides a comprehensive service ranging from front end studies at the conceptual design and planning phase through to the commissioning, operation and decommissioning of plants or processes. This includes the preparation of safety cases and Environmental Statements with the supporting technical and engineering assessments.

Since 1980, we have provided safety assessment services to all of the major operators of nuclear sites in the UK.

This work assists companies to improve their safety and environmental performance and is needed to demonstrate compliance with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act, the Environmental Protection Act and other Health and Safety and Environmental legislation. AREVA RMC is one of the UK’s leading firms of consultants in the assessment of safety and environmental risks.

We have also had successful experience of working in partnership with major contracting companies.

Key services:

• Option studies
• Safety functional requirements
• Safety assessment
  • Hazard identification - HAZOP, FMEA, plant walkdown
  • Fault schedules
  • Safety case categorisation
  • Radiological consequence assessment
  • Frequency assessment – FTA, ETA, consequence analysis
  • Risk assessment
  • ALARP review
  • Safety management and safety case authoring
  • Shielding and criticality
  • Human Factors
  • Safety systems identification & classification
• Engineering substantiation
• Human reliability and ergonomic assessment
• Independent peer review