Characterization, conditioning and management of radioactive waste

Remediation, decontamination and dismantling are essential operations in our business, since they involve removing all or part of the radioactivity from its original support or from the premises that contained it.

Our remediation and dismantling operations generally involve :

- Apartments, laboratories, industries, nuclear facilities.

- Pharmaceutical or research materials, or materials containing or having contained radioactivity.

- Industrial equipment (tippers, machinery, tanks, water treatment processes, etc.).

- Items belonging to private individuals.

- Military equipment (small items, vehicles, aircraft, etc.).

- Nuclear facilities with high-level waste.

Nuclear prospecting and measurement are the common threads running through our operations, as these skills are essential to ensure the reliability of a project. Our operators are made aware of these concepts before any intervention in the field, so that they can work on the management of all radioactive waste.

They enable :

- Upstream, to determine the extent and levels of contamination, which will enable us to decide on the methodology to be employed, the equipment to be used and the outlets.

- On completion, to validate the assumptions made in the upstream phase and ship the waste packages to the previously identified outlets.

- Downstream, to map the decommissioning of polluted sites and soils prior to a second inspection and decommissioning by the authorities.

Radiation protection is the foundation and heart of our expertise, and we attach the utmost importance to it, given the presence of radioactivity where unexposed workers and the public circulate.

These best practices are implemented to protect the population from radioactivity, and our operations are designed to contain high and low-level radioactive materials to limit their impact on man, the environment and future generations.

We also make a point of adapting our equipment and methodologies to the radiation intensity and contamination levels being measured, as well as to the radiotoxicity of the spectrum in which we operate.

Our business requires us to produce deliverables to inform our customers and the relevant authorities of the actions planned as part of our interventions.

As such, we write :

- Management plans for sites and soils polluted by radioactivity.

- Remediation and dismantling scenarios.

- Asbestos removal plans.

- Files on the management of radioactive waste by outfitters.

- Technical notes justifying radiation protection and characterization resources.

- Comprehensive mapping to show authorities the extent and levels of contamination.

Decommissioning maps refer to the process of reducing or eliminating radioactivity.

We work on decommissioning projects to demonstrate the absence of radioactive sources. For this type of service, the mesh size and sampling rate are adapted to the customer's needs.

This service is outsourced to an all-class ADR specialist, i.e. a company authorized to transport dangerous goods. This partnership enables us to obtain the most appropriate classifications. It should be noted that loading and pre-departure loading checks are carried out by trained and authorized Onet Technologies personnel.

Over the past 30 years, clean-up operations have produced almost 80,000 big bags from the remediation of sites polluted by radioactivity.

The completion of these major clean-up operations has enabled us to acquire considerable expertise in all levels of radioactivity for the management of all types of waste. We have the skills and personnel required to carry out this type of operation.