Radiation safety engineering in decommissioning

Radiation safety should be considered and integrated in all levels of decommissioning project’s management system documents, HSE plans and individual working instructions as necessary. ALARA plans shall be prepared generally for whole project as well as to individual work tasks with different requirements of level of details. In Fortum we have decades of experience on planning and execution of complex projects and tasks both for our own and for our clients nuclear facilities taken radiation safety into account in all working phases in accordance with the ALARA principle. We have prepared ALARA plans and radiation dose estimates for both operating power plants and decommissioning projects. Therefore, we are able to support you with ALARA planning and estimating collective and individual radiation doses.

Radiation safety is an essential factor to ensure occupational health and safety in execution of nuclear decommissioning work tasks, including dismantling and waste management activities. Leaning on our strong in-house competences and our experience on radiation safety engineering, we can support you in planning of the working tasks and their implementation methods to ensure and optimize the radiation safety. We are experienced in radiation modelling and simulations, and can ensure best possible working methods, including designing necessary radiation shieldings and protective measures.

The final work task in nuclear decommissioning is to carry out free-release measurements at the site. Based on our experience, we can support you in planning and verifying the free-release measurements. Free-release measurements are usually very manpower intensive and time consuming. Hence our experience and radiation safety engineering can support you in optimisation of the measuring processes, methods and tasks and can thus gain time and cost savings in implementation.