These past few weeks have been a strange time for all of us, we are adjusting to a new reality and in accordance with the government advice on social distancing, since last week we have all been working at home. We are pleased to report that everyone is well and our company and capabilities remain fully functioning, being unaffected by the physical separation.
During these uncertain times our priorities are clear:
maintaining the health and safety of our team and their families;
providing a smooth, reliable service for our clients.
We are thankfully currently on track with both of these. Our IT networks, communications infrastructure, computing capability and company culture was always set up to allow for flexible and remote working as the norm. If there are any small businesses that would like some help and advice with this, then please get in touch and we’d be more than happy to assist.
Hope you all stay safe out there! Best wishes from the Cerberus Nuclear team.
(Pete’s plant has been rescued from the office today)
New Starter - Peter Evans
Peter started with us back in November 2019 as a Principal Shielding Assessor. He brings with him a wealth of Sellafield Limited experience having worked there for the last 11 years, leading delivery of the shielding support for a number of key projects. He has hit the ground running at Cerberus, delivering assessments for a number of clients and has made valuable contributions to some of our in-house software development projects.
The Generator - Point Cloud
For many years companies and networking groups have used this facility for seminars and lectures to facilitate networking, knowledge sharing and collaboration opportunities.
Cerberus Nuclear were delighted to offer our services to Birchwood Park, which then allows them to showcase this valued facility in a unique manner.
The original point cloud consisted of over 100 million points of data created from multiple 3D scans. Our scans produced a high-density point cloud with accuracy of 1mm.
The interactive model shown above has been downscaled to ~2 million points to cater for optimised dynamic viewing.
A big thank you goes to Birchwood Park for allowing us to access The Generator, for more information check out:
It's been a busy few months at Cerberus. We're pleased to announce that Sam Hilton has recently* joined us as a graduate consultant, building on his university project experience of radiation shielding in fusion reactor design.
* September 2019, we've been busy!
Northern Nuclear Alliance & BECBC: Defence and Infrastructure
Cerberus Nuclear attended the Defence Infrastructure Event at Birchwood Park Engine Rooms.
There were some very interesting talks from Gary Shuttleworth (Morgan Sindall), Mark Robinson (Babcock) & Paul Kelly (Volker Stevin).
Thank you to Northern Nuclear Alliance @Nuclearuknorth & Britain's Energy Coast Business Cluster @BECBC for organising the event.
University of Liverpool - Shielding Design Process Lecture
The Shielding Forum (TSF) has provided support for the Radiation Shielding Module of the NTEC course for many years providing an industry-focused knowledge input to the radiation shielding module.
Several TSF member organisations provide lectures on a wide range of subjects from Monte Carlo and deterministic codes as well as practical radiation shielding applications.
Cerberus Nuclear is a key member of TSF and provides a student lecture on the Shielding Design Process our talk focuses on how this high-level process is used in industry to support facility design.
Cerberus Nuclear's Geoff Hall recently presented at the 24th MCNEG meeting held at the Culham Conference Centre, Oxfordshire.
MCNEG provides a forum for new and experienced users of Monte Carlo software for radiation transport.
Geoff's presentation was based on the assessment of transient dose rates from transport packages and gamma monitor normalisation. The talk was received really well with some very good follow-up questions.
It was a well attended event and there were some really good talks, the tour of the JET reactor on day 2 was excellent!
Geoff Hall
Cerberus Nuclear would like to thank AWE and UKAEA for supporting the event.
