Market Cross supports Family Science Day at Dorset Museum

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Three Market Cross members travelled to Dorset Museum and Art Gallery in Dorchester to support Family Science Day on 16th March. We shared the beautiful Victorian hall with a number of innovative science related organisations, companies and community groups both local and national.

Our stand included modules representing different radiation related subjects, activities and handouts. Some very informative material was also kindly provided by the Society for Radiological Protection (SRP).

We encouraged as many people as we could to get involved in the wonderful natural world of natural and man-made radiation, while helping everyone to understand, and get into perspective, the risks of ionising radiation.

You need a very sensitive detector to see the radiation from a curling stone! But its there.

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Market Cross Providing Support to State of the Art Security Inspections Project

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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 Provides RPA support to Thorium Processing Project

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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 now operating at Capenhurst

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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 provides RPA services to Dounreay

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Dounreay

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.

Market Cross returns to support radiation safety works at new radiography facilities in Cumbria

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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.

Dreadnought Programme

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.