Nuclear
Origin is a trusted provider of expert safety consultancy services to the UK nuclear industry, including power generation, defence and fusion. We specialise in delivering solutions that ensure compliance with the highest safety standards, mitigate risk, and promote operational excellence across the nuclear lifecycle.
With extensive experience in the regulatory landscape, we support organisations in adhering to the regulatory requirements and standards, such as the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) Safety Assessment Principles (SAPs) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidelines.
Core Services
- Safety Cases / Facility Safety Justifications for high-hazard nuclear facilities and processes
- Staged safety reports e.g. Pre-Construction, Pre-Commissioning and Pre-Operational Safety Reports
- Radiological dose calculations
- Criticality safety justifications
- Design Basis, Beyond Design Basis and Probabilistic Safety Analysis
- Integration of Human Factors and Engineering Design Substantiation assessments into safety cases
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Licence Condition compliance
- Shortfalls optioneering and As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) assessments
- Application of nuclear licensee corporate safety procedures
Case Studies
- Facility Safety Justification documents for multiple high-hazard nuclear facilities.
- Periodic Review of Safety for multiple high-hazard nuclear facilities.
- Independent technical review Specific Safety Functional Requirement (SSFR) sentencing and recommendations report for nuclear explosives facility.
- Facilitation and chairing of Hazard & Operability (HAZOP) studies for various nuclear-related projects.
- Independent review and recommendations for Engineering Design Substantiation approach for large SSFR set.
- Reliability analysis for nuclear ventilation system.
- Independent review of safety case documentation for a sodium / potassium liquid metal (NaK) Removal Project.
- Safety Case documentation and HAZOP Chair for nuclear fusion reactor components and associated test rigs.
- Safety Case for nuclear fusion related test rig
