Nuclear Ventilation 2023

Bob Scattergood: Technical Lead, Sellafield Sites Ltd

Has worked in the Nuclear industry for SL and its various predecessors for over 30 years. During that time he has worked as a Nuclear Ventilation specialist engineer on projects for various licenced sites as well as many projects for Sellafield. Most recent major project role is being Responsible Mechanical Engineer for the SAV project. Bob is the current SL design functional lead in this area.

John Bradshaw: Scientist, AWE

John Bradshaw is one of the RPA’s working at AWE and is currently working as the RP Lead on AWE’s New Build projects providing input as the RP intelligent customer. John has 30 year’s experience as a Health Physicist and RPA at UKAEA Harwell and AWE Aldermaston and is also a member of the RWA Body. He occasionally supports AWE’s Internal Regulation function, for example as part of the peer review of the Sites’ Safety Cases for AWE (A) and AWE(B). He’s contributed to the IRPCG Guidance documents either commenting or writing, co-authored a paper on decontamination factor (DF) for Pressurised Suit Operations and has spoken at the Cambridge Summer School on Decommissioning and Waste Management. He’s standing down as the Chair of the SRP Events Committee and is a Chartered Radiation Protection Professional. In 2020 received the award of Honorary Fellow by the SRP

Kirstie Ryan: Project Manager, FIS360

Kirstie works for FIS360 Ltd as a Project Manager in commercialisation and innovation. She works on various programmes including the Game Changers innovation programme, communicating innovation challenge opportunities. Kirstie holds a degree in Materials and Design Engineering from Loughborough University and a PhD in Nanostructured Materials from the University of Manchester. Following this, Kirstie took a position as a postdoctoral researcher working in additive manufacturing of conductive polymers and nanomaterials for electrochemical applications. She then went on to become the Outreach and Project Manager for the RAIN hub (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear). In this role, she engaged with industry, regulatory bodies, and schools while serving as the central contact point for demonstration activities across the UK, supporting the implementation of the overall RAIN project plan. Kirstie is deeply passionate about innovation and emerging technologies.

Frank Allison: CEO, FIS360

John Chappell MBE: Director of Asset Management and Continuous Improvement, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

John was initially an RAF engineering officer leading front-line maintenance for fast-jet aircraft in various roles and theatres. He was awarded an MBE for the development of lean transformation across the aircraft fleets and the surge of improvement it gave. John left the RAF in 2009 and has led operations at Sellafield’s MOx Fuel Plant accelerating production, Head of Operational Engineering at United Utilities, applying better maintenance and lean operations improving resilience and reliability. Now Director of Asset Management and Continuous Improvement he provides a key focus on asset performance, life-cycle planning and estate wide learning delivering the NDA’s mission.

Ron Bellamy: Chair, ASME Committee on Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment

Dr Ronald R Bellamy retired from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission after 45 years, serving in various management roles as well as the subject matter expert for nuclear air cleaning matters. He was responsible for the US nuclear air cleaning regulations and regulatory guides. He presently consults for the US NRC as well as the US Department of Energy, and numerous corporations. His work with the USDOE has involved revising the DOE Nuclear Air Cleaning Handbook and writing new DOE Standards for nuclear air cleaning. He is the President of the International Society for Nuclear Air Treatment Technologies, and chairs the biennial International Nuclear Air Cleaning Conferences. He is the Director of the Harvard University Inplace Filter Testing Workshop, past chair of the ASME Committee for AG-1, Code on Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment, and is on the ASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards.

Bernard Swinnerton: Principal Design Engineer Nuclear Ventilation and Building, Sellafield Sites Ltd

Stacey McKinlay: Managing Director, Ductform HFE

Working within the Construction Industry for over 30 years, Stacey extended her role to become a key manager with additional involvement in Finance and Strategy. Heavily involved in the strategic downsizing of company operations to accommodate market conditions, whilst at the same time being promoted to Managing Director, Stacey successfully steered an MBO along with her brothers in purchasing the Business in 2005, and has steadily increased turnover year-on-year. Despite difficult trading conditions, Ductform HFE remains Scotland’s’ Leading Ductwork Specialist, with a reputation for quality, innovation and reliability across a multitude of sector disciplines. Thanks to Stacey's ongoing drive for improvement, Ductform continues to expand into new industries and markets with a strong commitment to sustainability, creating compelling offers to reduce the carbon footprint of projects across all UK sectors.

Andrew Titley: UK Director, Axima

After 13 years in the UK Military as an engineer Andrew moved into the UK Railways managing large and complex Railways systems integration programmes consisting of Signalling systems, Telecoms, civils and P’Way in roles from Consultant, client, and contractor. A keen advocate of alliancing, a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Project Manager, Andrew crossed into Nuclear around 9 years ago to manage a large M&E project for AWE and moved to Hinkley Point C as client representative in the Electrical Island in 2017. Having held various positions in the industry from consultant to Managing Dir Andrew now finds himself managing the Axima Nuclear business in the UK.

Iain Johnston: Project Director, Axima

Iain Johnston is a graduate chemical engineer and has worked in the power industry since first joining the CEGB in 1987. He has worked across the full range of fossil-fuelled, renewable, and nuclear power generation projects and led the Axima team that is delivering the design, qualification and equipment supply for the EdF Hinkley Point C classified HVAC systems. Iain is now supporting the growth of the Equans Axima UK nuclear HVAC business.

Juliette Bordellier: Director of Operations (Maintenance, testing on Ventilation and cooling systems), Axima

Juliette Bordellier is graduate nuclear engineer and has worked in the nuclear industry since 2011. She has worked at Framatome on nuclear safeguard systems then has joined AXIMA as project leader on ventilation systems maintenance and testing for all nuclear actors (EDF, CEA, ORANO, FRAMATOME…). Juliette is also part of innovative developments in order to improve maintenance efficiency.

Andrew Calder: Principal Engineer, Dounreay

Andrew works on the Dounreay site as the Engineering Manager for the Fuel Cycle Area, holding important roles across site as Project Design Authority and part of the Technical Authority Group. Andrew is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Coming from a practical trades background as a Mechanical Fitter, a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and on to a Masters degree in Engineering Management. Andrew has developed from the bottom and has a broad experience of design, operations and maintenance working the majority of his career in nuclear with periods in both the Architecture and Oil & Gas industries.

Jason Allen: Sales Director, EMCEL Filters

Joined Emcel Filters in 1998 on the shop floor as a production operative. Having now been with company for 25 Years, my role has evolved through the Emcel Team to current Director role. My current role is to provide strategy and skillset to the Emcel team, developing and sharing technical / commercial knowledge upholding company values within the organisation and excellent reputation with stakeholders. Now working with major customers across a number of industries including Pharmaceutical, Defence and Nuclear including actively engaging within the Sellafield / Magnox framework agreement and this particular L2W development from a theoretical and practical perspective.

Grant Hall: Senior Design Engineer, AWE

Grant Hall has been working in various Nuclear facilities engineering roles for over 30 years. He has extensive expertise in glovebox technologies and nuclear ventilation. He is a member of the National Nuclear Ventilation forum and the BSI standards committee for air filters.

Jamie Rickert: Director, Institute for Clean Energy Technology (ICET), Mississippi State University

Jaime Rickert is the Director for the Institute for Clean Energy Technology (ICET) at Mississippi State University. She plans, directs, and oversees the regulatory and contractual requirements of research activities and serves as a technical liaison between ICET and federal and industry sponsors and collaborators. Ms. Rickert has fourteen years of research experience with HEPA filters. She was also responsible for the development and implementation of the Nuclear Quality Assurance Program at ICET. Ms. Rickert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Technology.

Hannah Davies: Civil Engineer, Atkins

Daniel Tipple: Senior Technical Engineer for Fan Systems, Witt Group MD

Jerome Allison: Nuclear Safety Equivalent Inspector, ONR

Ian Davies-Kerwin: Principal Inspector of Nuclear Safety, ONR

Alistair Brooks: Principal Engineer, Wozair

Alistair Brooks is the Principal Engineer at Wozair Limited. He has been involved in the design, manufacture and testing of ventilation equipment to the nuclear industry for over 35 years. He is responsible within the company for conformity of its products, such as air handling units and fire dampers, to regulatory requirements for UKCA and CE marking. He has participated in the development of Sellafield Engineering standards for air handling units and dampers and regularly attends meetings of the National Nuclear Ventilation Forum.

Calum Maclean: Senior Research Engineer, BSRIA

Calum has worked at BSRIA since 2006 and undertaken a wide range of testing types, this has included: mock-up testing, indoor environmental quality tests (indoor air quality, noise, thermal comfort and light levels), site investigations, desk based investigations and consultancy reports regarding failures and post occupancy evaluations. The testing was to various criteria including specific schemes, national and international standards and Client bespoke requirements. Calum has undertaken airtightness tests of various building types and bespoke test methodologies for physical mockups and on sites including infiltration calculations and airflow volume tests for building components. The tests have included hospital isolation rooms, test laboratories, schools and office spaces.

Dr Craig Ricketts: Emeritus Faculty Member in Engineering Technology, Department of New Mexico State University

Craig I. Ricketts’ continuing service on project teams and the Filtration Subcommittee of ASME’s Committee on Nuclear Air and Gas treatment dates back thirty plus years. He has been a consultant to NASA, DOE, and major European and US filter manufacturers. In the mid 1980’s, he was a member of a research team that developed high-strength HEPA filters for European nuclear markets, via three filter manufacturers as technology transfer licensees. He led test activities during investigations of the 1970’s and 1980’s into HEPA filter response to tornado-model pressure pulses, shock waves, and high air humidity. His academic degrees include Dr.-Ing. in Mechanical Process Engineering from Universität Karlsruhe (now KIT) and a BSME and an MSME from New Mexico State University.

David Black: Global Product Marketing Manager – Air Handling Units, FlaktGroup

He have worked in the ventilation sector since leaving college in 1986. Since 1991 exclusively in the Air Handling Unit sector for UK, Swedish and German AHU manufacturers. I sit on the CIBSE HVAC Systems group committee and contributed to the CIBSE covid-19 ventilation guidance document. I also participate in Eurovent AHU specific groups and REHVA (the European umbrella organisation for consultant engineers). My main focus is on advocating optimal energy efficient air handling solutions.

Robert Marwood: Technical Director, Robotics and Technology, Krantz

Robert has 15 years’ experience in the nuclear industry, including 9 years in various engineering and decommissioning roles at Sellafield. Since joining Atkins over 4 years ago, Robert has led on projects that utilise robotics and technology to deliver decommissioning solutions safer, faster, cheaper.

Dr Stuart Mcilwain: Technical Director, Turnbull & Scott (Engineers) Ltd

Dr Stuart Mcilwain is the Technical Director at Turnbull & Scott, with over 20 years of experience in the nuclear and HVAC industries. He leads technical research, design, and product developments including Heat Recovery and Long Duration Thermal Energy Storage. Since joining Turnbull & Scott he has opened their Design Centre in Edinburgh from where he has overseen the design of Heating and Cooling Coils for the Hinkley Point C Ventilation systems. He has previously been Head of Heat Pump Research for Mitsubishi Electric in Europe and a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and Thermodynamics at University of West of Scotland.

Matthew McDermott: Senior HVAC Engineer, Sellafield Ltd

I am a Senior Nuclear Ventilation Engineer and have worked for Sellafield Ltd for the last 21 years. I have worked on a number of projects over the years covering all aspects from decommissioning to new build projects. I have largely focussed on new build major projects which include a contaminated casualty facility, an above ground long term storage facility, a maintenance facility, and a process plant which deals with encapsulation of historic waste. I am currently the HVAC Lead on the SPRS Retreatment Plant (SRP) and I am a member of the National Nuclear Ventilation Forum.

James Bevis: Managing Director, Exyte Hargreaves

A professional with over 28 years of experience within the construction industry, specialising in the management of complex engineering and technology projects. Experience has been gained both operationally and commercially, business central and on projects across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East with construction values up to £750 million. James a proven customer focused approach to delivery by implementing robust strategies to enhance business performance with vast experience liaising with developers, end user clients, engineering and cost consultants, contractors, and the supply chain to ensure that ultimately, projects are safely and sustainably delivered to programme, with the highest quality standard upheld and with costs controlled correctly.