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Concept Development Programme
What is NDA's Concept Development Programme?
It is a regular series of open calls for innovative projects that
- have a generic or multi-site application against technical challenges identified through-out the whole estate e.g. technical challenges detailed in SLC Lifetime Plans
- are small scale innovation projects (typically to a value of less than £50k).
- are designed to promote innovation and concept development from within the supply chain to meet the decommissioning and clean-up challenges the NDA and the SLCs face.
We have held two calls and undertaken 24 projects.
Why do the NDA fund it?
We are committed to promoting and actively supporting generic research relevant to nuclear clean-up, by encouraging innovation through the supply chain.
Applying appropriate and innovative technologies to the clean-up programmes can lead to potential benefits such as acceleration in clean-up timescales or improvements in safety. Additionally the Concept Development Programme helps the NDA to actively engage with the broader supply chain on short, medium and long term R&D programmes.
Concept development can provide us with a pipeline to progress ideas and ensure value for money.
Target audience
The Concept Development Programme is for supply chain companies or institutions with new ideas or concepts that could be deployed into a nuclear environment for decommissioning and clean up.
Outcome
Most responses to the concept development programme require a medium to long term view of deployment, however we also consider concepts with a shorter timescale for potential deployment.
| Innovation funded by NDA Concept Development Programme | ||
|---|---|---|
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Innovative use of phase change materials for safe post operational clean-out with minimal effluent production This proposal investigated the flow of ice slurries which can be made to flow like fluids through geometries including: pipe elbows and T pipes for post operational clean out. |
University of Bristol | Aug 2006 |
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Review of geophysical methods for the identification of radiological contamination This study is a review of the currently available non-invasive geophysical methods used for the detection and monitoring of subsurface radioactive contamination. The outcome of this study will act as an input to designing future contaminated land work. |
WestLakes Scientific Consulting | Aug 2006 |
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Subsurfacing penetrating sonar system This is a sonar system that has the capability to detect and locate solid items buried beneath sludges. This proposal was set to look at modifications to an already existing technology, to refine operations. This modified technology could be applied to a number of NDA facilities including Legacy ponds and silos. |
James Fisher Nuclear Ltd | Sept 2007 |
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Dose planning and waste assessment tool This proposal outlined the development of a technology for radiological investigations. The technology used was a proven concept, but REACT proposed to develop this to prepare for deployment in a nuclear environment. The output of the technology is a radiation map, used to assess infrastructure contamination. |
REACT Engineering | Sept 2007 |
If you have any questions please contact us on: research@nda.gov.uk
