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Dr Jenny Kent appointed new Managing Director We are pleased to share an important update regarding our management arrangements. As of 1 July – and after 30 years leading the company – Dr Daniel Galson will be handing the Managing Director role to Dr Jenny Kent and moving into a newly created Strategic Director role. …

Galson Sciences and it’s parnters Empresarios Agrupanos and Orano Projets have been awarded a framework contract to develop disposal solutions for spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste in Norway. Under the framework agreement, the consortium will further develop the Deep Borehole Disposal (DBD) concept for high-level radioactive waste in Norway, informing the selection of radioactive …

Our Galson Sciences team attended the three-day Symposium on Geological Disposal Optimisation ,organised by the Implementing Geological Disposal – Technology Platform (IDG-TP) and hosted by Nagra (Swiss waste management organisation) in Zurich in September 2022. Tamara Baldwin, Consultant at Galson Sciences and member of the IGD-TP Scientific Committee, was instrumental in organising this event, bringing …

GSL has recently completed a project on laser decontamination of inactive metallic surfaces with its partners NNL (National Nuclear Laboratory) and VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland), as part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Direct Research Portfolio (DRP) framework on Integrated Waste Management and Side Decommissioning and Remediation. Laser decontamination (or ablation) has been …

The NDA supply chain event in Telford on the 21st July 2022 brought together the breadth of the UK nuclear industry and beyond. Galson Sciences and Egis were in attendance to show our faces and rub elbows with the great and the good of the sector.

The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) arranged a fascinating day of presentations, an exhibition and an evening reception. We enjoyed meeting people face-to-face again and networking with contacts from across the nuclear industry.

n the month of July, Galson Sciences had a rewarding opportunity to host our first Work Experience Student following pandemic-induced working constraints. We might be a bit biased, but we can easily say our Work Experience Student must be one of the brightest pupils in attendance at Hampton College.

Harpers is a European Commission project with the objective to harmonise the application of the international regulatory framework in waste management and decommissioning across EC member states. The project has 25 partners, including Galson Sciences, from 13 countries and is due to last from June 2022 through until May 2025.

Galson Sciences Ltd (GSL) is pleased to announce that it has again been awarded a contract under Lot 2 of the LLW Repository Ltd’s Environmental Safety Case (ESC) Support Framework. The new contract will run for four years and is intended to provide general professional services to support LLW Repository Ltd’s ESC Team in fulfilling …

We are pleased to welcome two members of staff. Alex has a PhD in Geoscience from Royal Holloway, University of London, an MSc from the same university and a BSc from University of Manchester. His experience includes 10 years’ academic study and research in structural geology, sedimentary processes, rock mechanics, petroleum engineering, earthquake seismology, and …