Project Management Services to determine requirement for new Liquid Effluent Treatment Plant

Objective:

To Review and identify a radioactive effluent management facility alternative, which over its operational lifetime will be significantly more economic to operate than the current Liquid Effluent Treatment Plant (LETP).

Added value to client:

This project benefits the client by:

• Enabling the full transfer of the trade effluent to the foul system thus ensuring the whole trade drainage system can be decommissioned;
• Minimising the generation of active effluent thus enabling rationalisation of the radioactive effluent system;
• Defining the parameters for the LETP to ensure that a new plant is not built unnecessarily and is fit for purpose.

Activity:

RM Consultants Ltd (RMC) provides Project Management support to determine the design parameters (and hence the requirement) for a new LETP to service the long-term radioactive effluent management requirements of the client’s operations (including future decommissioning).

In the definition stage of the project RMC produced a method for determining the quantity and quality (chemical and radiological) of radioactive effluent to input into the new plant. RMC is currently leading the survey programme to characterise the radioactive effluent contributions from current operations.

A Strategy to facilitate the segregation of the active and non-active components in the trade and active effluent generated across the clients’ site was produced and implemented.

A programme for managing radioactive liquid effluent from the site in line with best practicable environmental option was produced to facilitate closure of the existing LETP and its associated discharge pipeline.