Market Cross has been appointed as the RPA to provide the radiological systems necessary work safely with a new mobile security imaging technology. These mobile devices make use of the X-ray backscatter effect and produce an instantaneous image of the contents of containers, packages or anything the hand-held device can be brought in proximity to.

Market Cross also provided Critical Examinations of the mobile systems to characterise the operational and accidental dose-rates and to ensure the devices were in line with UK standards.

Market Cross has been appointed by Baldwin Technology as the RPA to provide radiological and legal support for staff working on a thorium processing project in Slough. The process enables the addition of natural thorium to specialised lighting products which, in turn, enables the products to emit unique wavelengths within the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The thorium also improves the integrity of the products, leading to a long operational life.

Market Cross is now providing Radiation Protection Adviser services to a series of contractors working at the Capenhurst nuclear site. This work includes support to engineering, installation and maintenance tasks in the Supervised and Controlled areas of the site.

Market Cross is providing Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) services to a key Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) contractor, GD Energy Services Ltd. Market Cross is working with GDES and NRS staff and management to help ensure the client continues to work in compliance with the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017 and local site requirements.

Together with Market Cross corporate member, Cerberus Nuclear, Market Cross is providing radiation safety advice for shielding integrity works on new radiography facilities in Cumbria. The radiography facilities are important test beds for welds, products and steel plate for large vessel construction.

Market Cross is very pleased to have been invited back on the project (now complete) and is looking forward to providing similar support in phase 2 of the project.

This month Market Cross completed an audit on the environmental permitting and radiation safety aspects of a number of oil and gas process diagnostic sites around the world. Together with our client, Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Ltd, this top level audit covered all aspects of corporate Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) for activites carried out by the end client within the industry.

The EHS audit was carried out by a team of auditors around the world and the environmental permitting and radiation safety audit strategy was led by Market Cross

In collaboration with our partner and corporate member Cerberus Nuclear, a series of shielding integrity tests were successfully completed at the Trauma, Teaching and Tertial Care (3Ts) redevelopment project at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

The project involved the use of industrial radiography sources and a betatron accelerator all of which required strict radiological control and full RPA support.

This month Market Cross were tasked to carry out some ground investigation and health physics work on a site suitable for development. This time, however, the work brought about a tinge of nostalgia. This was because the work was undertaken on the very site where Market Cross was conceived and incorporated, Winfrith Technology Centre.

Today the site is known as Dorset Innovation Park and Market Cross still has its main office there at Chesil House.