Cerberus Nuclear are part of a consortium that has been selected by the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) to support its activities related to nuclear safety and security over the next two to four years.
The consortium was awarded the contract by DSA in the face of stiff international competition. The Consortium is led by ARC supported by Cerberus Nuclear, Ubique Risk Management, NSG Environmental, Matom and Quintessa.
"We are delighted to have Cerberus on board again. We have developed an excellent working relationship with them since they were established and they have consistently provided excellent criticality and shielding services to ARC across many projects, including on a separate contract with DSA"
Jon Baggs, ARC's Nuclear Business Manager
The appointment provides further recognition of our Criticality Safety expertise, and builds on our regulatory support activities both in the UK and further afield.
WPC Meeting - November 2020
Cerberus Nuclear attended the second Working Party on Criticality (WPC) meeting of the year, and the second to take place as a web-conference.
This was the first meeting since Toby Tyas was confirmed as our new representative, alongside Stewart Hay. We presented Eddy, our new open source HTML output generator for MCNP and SCALE. Toby discussed our recent funding application to the Alpha Resilience Capability (ARC) Programme, in support of the development of CARTA, and continued his contribution to the ‘Handbooks’ sub-group.
We’re looking forward to a point in time when the meetings can take place in person again, but thank you to Springfields Fuels Limited (Westinghouse Electric Company) for hosting the virtual event.
Eddy - MCNP & SCALE Html Generator
Cerberus Nuclear has created Eddy, an open-source Html output generator for MCNP and SCALE. The function of Eddy is to parse MCNP and SCALE output files into an easy-to-read and user-friendly format. Eddy has been written to work for both radiation transport and criticality calculations.
Eddy collates key information from an output file so that it can be quickly reviewed. Normalisation factors can also be specified to simplify interpretation of tally outputs.
Eddy Html outputs include:
Normalised Tally Results with Error
Highlighted Statistical Checks
K-effective and Error
Comments and Warnings
Cell Mass and Volumes
Particle Populations
Full MCNP Input
Eddy is simple to use from the command line or via its built-in interface. Hyperlinks within the Html enable the user to navigate to the required part of the output with ease.
The Html output from Eddy assists in the preparation of technical reports supports QA processes and improves workflow efficiency. The contained nature of the Html output and its small file size also facilitates the sharing of calculation outputs for independent review purposes.
If you would like to provide any feedback or would like to request additional features please get in touch by emailing nuclear@cerberusnuclear.com
RWM Criticality Safety Framework
We are really pleased to announce that Cerberus Nuclear and Galson Sciences Limited have teamed up to support Radioactive Waste Management (RWM) on their Criticality Safety Framework. We believe our combined criticality teams offer RWM a really strong capability, with a blend of operational criticality safety experience and unique repository operational expertise. We are looking forward to working on a wide range of tasks during this exciting time for GDF development in the UK.
