Few consulting firms have the dedicated staff of experienced Radiological Services Professionals that Penn E&R maintains. Our Clients often comment that our staff seems to be “ahead of the curve” in this ever changing and specialized service area. Penn E&R’s Radiological Services Group (RSG) has accumulated over 20 years of experience assisting clients in managing sites with low-level radioactive waste concerns. Our group of professionals has extensive experience with site characterization and final status survey design and implementation, remediation support services, and radiological health and safety and general engineering support. Penn E&R’s RSG has provided a full range of services to a number of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission license holders including several sites that are currently listed under the Site Decommissioning Management Plan. In addition, our personnel have supported Department of Energy sites and sites contaminated with orphan radioactive materials. This involvement in the decommissioning process and its evolving regulatory perspective has allowed Penn E&R to uniquely position itself to service companies with significant radioactive decommissioning needs.
Penn E&R has assisted numerous clients with sites in various stages of the decommissioning process. Penn E&R’s staff has successfully developed dose models for “open land” areas and structures using various software codes, including RESRAD, RESRAD-Build, D and D, and Microshield, to assist clients pursuing unrestricted release for their site and a cost-effective decommissioning strategy. In addition, our personnel have designed MARSSIM-based survey plans and radiological health and safety plans to support the decommissioning strategy and have prepared final status survey reports at the conclusion of remediation activities for submission to the appropriate regulatory oversight agencies.
Penn E&R’s RSG has assisted clients in agency negotiations at both the federal and state levels to ensure timely and appropriate licensed activities. Our staff has also prepared numerous license amendments and decommissioning plans as well as disposal option analyses for a variety of clients.
Penn E&R’s overall RSG program mission is to provide high quality, cost effective and practical Radiological Services that meet our Clients’ specific needs. By maintaining this standard Penn E&R has achieved positive name recognition throughout the United States in the field of Radiological Consulting Services. In fact one of Penn E&R’s Principal Officers has been appointed as a member of the PA Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee. The following is a list of some of the services provided by Penn E&R’s RSG:
- ALARA Analysis
- Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Health Physics & License Renewal Support
- Decommissioning Funding Plan Preparation & Development
- Decommissioning Plan Development
- NORM Assessment & Management for the Shale Gas Industry
- Dose Modeling for Restricted & Unrestricted Release Scenarios
- Federal & State Regulatory Agency Negotiations
- Final Status Survey Plan Development & Implementation
- Ground Water Impact & Hydrogeological Assessments
- License Management, Modification & Termination
- Radiological & Chemical Site Characterization Studies
- Remedial Alternative Analysis & Management
- Scoping Survey Assessments
- Site Background Investigations & Determinations
- Waste Disposal Alternative Analysis & Costing