NUVIA UK

About us

About us

NUVIA UK is part of the global NUVIA Group, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction, and a division of the world-leading VINCI Group. 

NUVIA is a global company operating on highly regulated, sensitive, nuclear and industrial sites. We work across business sectors spanning nuclear energy, civil and military defence, healthcare, environment and scientific research and development. Our nuclear heritage spans over 70 years and has seen NUVIA play a key role in some of the most technically challenging projects the industry has delivered. Working alongside our clients, we guarantee the best levels of safety and performance to build a safer, cleaner and sustainable world.

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Our Services

Projects, Engineering and Decommissioning

We provide services and turnkey solutions both across and into the full project lifecycle.

NUVIA has the capability to design, build and operate facilities for the management of legacy or decommissioning wastes, post-operations clean-out, dismantling of structures as well as new-build and retrofit of new process systems into existing facilities.

Services include:

  • Turnkey EPC delivery​
  • Project & programme management services ​

  • Single or multi-disciplined engineering to deliver integrated solutions/packages ​

  • Development of bespoke, MOTS and COTS solutions

  • Commercial procurement

  • Construction management​

  • Commissioning support​

  • Leveraging synergies with the wider NUVIA Group, Vinci Construction parent and subsidiaries

Engineering services include:

  • Mechanical​

  • Process​​

  • Civil and Structural​​​

  • EC&I​​​

  • HVAC​​​

Comprehensive project
life-cycle services:

  • Technical Support​

  • Value Engineering​​

  • Feasibility & business case

  • Concept development​

  • Scheme design​

Decommissioning
& Site Services include:

Decommis-
sioning & Site
Services include:

  • Decommissioning Projects​

  • NORM Descaling​​

  • ModuCon™ Modular Containment​​​

  • SQEP Resource Provision

  • Installation & Commissioning​

  • FM Services​

  • Refurbishment and Asset care​

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Health Physics

NUVIA is the largest commercial provider of radiation protection related services to UK industry operating in industrial, security, civil and defence related markets. Combined with the extensive NUVIA Group capabilities and extensive Radiation Protection Instrumentation catalogue, this provides one of the most comprehensive and largest capability in the world.

Site
Operations

NUVIA employ around 250 staff supporting operations at customer sites.

Services include:

  • Operational Health Physics

  • Specialist large are monitoring and particle retrieval services

  • Radiation Protection Advisers (RPA)

  • Radioactive Waste Advisers (RWA)

  • Radiation Protection Supervisors (RPS)

  • Full range of training courses

  • 24/7 on-call service

Instrument Calibration
and Repair Services

We perform thousands of calibrations annually.

Our services include:

  • ISO 17025 compliant

  • Radiation calibration

  • Contamination calibration

  • Repair

  • HSE performance tests

  • Calibration software

  • Safety interlocks

Approved
Dosimetry Services

NUVIA are the only commercial provider to offer the full range of dosimetry required by the nuclear industry.

With dosimetry offices and laboratories located at key sites in Oxfordshire, Dorset, Cumbria and Scotland, we provide services to licensees and tenants on the former UKAEA sites and clients in the nuclear, industrial and security sectors. We are currently providing support to over 200 clients, with approximately 5,000 workers subject to dosimetry monitoring.

Our managed and integrated dosimetry packages are bespoke to each client’s individual needs and use the most appropriate technology, systems and proven processes to achieve optimum results.

These services include:

  • Internal assessments

  • External assessments (passive and electronic approval)

  • Accident

  • Criticality

  • Record keeping

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Technical Services & Consulting

Drawing on the strong foundations of NUVIA’s technical heritage, spanning many decades both within the UK and Internationally, we provide expertise to industry, governments and regulators at a strategic level and at all stages of the life cycle.

NUVIA can provide this expertise as single disciplines and specialists, or, using the full breadth of its capability, can offer a multi-disciplinary team of experts along with the relevant tools and methodologies to develop strategies and solutions for complex problems across all stages of the nuclear life cycle.

Our Range of Consultancy
Services includes

  • Waste Management​

  • Land Remediation​

  • Environmental Services​

  • Shielding & Criticality​

  • Safety & Risk Analysis / Management​

  • Engineering Substantiation​

  • Option studies​

  • Strategy Development & Optioneering​

  • Transport​

  • Security​

  • Research, Development & Innovation​

  • Decommissioning & Engineering​

Nuclear Safety Consultancy

We offer a broad range of services including

  • Making safety integral to engineering projects (new plants, modifications & decommissioning) – design optioneering, optimisation & the Nuvia Design Process

  • Hazard identification, HAZOPs, HAZANs

  • Safety case preparation & management – PSR, PCSR, PCmSR, POSR, OSC, DSC, PMSC, Periodic Safety Review (PRS)

  • Engineering substantiation & revalidation in support of safety case claims made on plant & equipment

  • Shielding, Dose Assesment & Criticality Safety – design and operation, including code expertise

  • Inventory assessments

  • Plant life extensions

  • Independent peer review

Land Remedation
& Characterisation Services

The Land Remediation and Characterisation service specialises in the deployment of in-situ technologies and the provision of waste management consultancy to support both decommissioning and remediation projects. The technologies have been developed and optimised by NUVIA and include the High Resolution Assay Monitor (HIRAM), the Gamma Excavation Monitor (GEM) and Groundhog. Waste management consultancy incorporates Best Available Technique (BAT) assessments, waste management and sample plans, laboratory data interpretation and fingerprinting, and transport, Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC), and Environmental Permit compliance.

We have a wide range of project experience from the nuclear sector to industries generating enhanced levels of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) and historic sites used in the production and use of radium. Radiological characterisation challenges have led to a range of customised solutions, such as pipeline characterisation, bespoke deployments, the Information Management System for tracking and generating waste documentation, and the use of nuclear codes, such as Monte Carlo N-Particle to optimise modelling and improve our understanding.

Engineering
Analysis

NUVIA’s Engineering Analysis team have a combined 50 years’ experience across the following areas, able to satisfy the breadth of industry standards for stress analysis with the latest simulation techniques:

  • Impact Analysis – LS-DYNA

  • Thermal Analysis – ANSYS

  • Piping Analysis – Caesar II

  • Seismic Analysis – ANSYS, Staad Pro, Robot, Caesar II

  • Static Structural Analysis – Hand Calculation (Mathcad), ANSYS, Staad Pro

technical services & consulting

Products & Innovation

NUVIA provide innovative nuclear measurement products & solutions, to nuclear, homeland security and medical clients.
We develop and adopt state-of-the-art technologies to deliver added value to our customers.

Products

NUVIA supply components (detectors, analysers and software) and complete measurement systems.

Our state-of-the-art products are aligned to six major fields of application:

  • Waste Management​

  • Homeland Security​

  • Laboratories​

  • Health Physics​

  • Environmental Monitoring​

  • Continuous Process Monitoring​

Innovation

We are committed to delivering safer, quicker, more productive and cost-effective solutions to some of the most complex challenges in the industry.

Combining our nuclear expertise, entrepreneurial spirit and client focus to supply innovative solutions:

  • Adopting technology innovations from horizon scanning and engagement with collaborators​

  • Adapting innovative technologies to work in the nuclear context, provide value adding solutions to client​

  • Improving existing products through integration of innovative technologies​

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Our Projects

See our current projects

ESS Target Internal Transport Casks
Decommissioning and Site Services Decontamination
Item Transport Package – ITP