SVI Win Prestigious Award at the Morgan Sindall Infrastructure Nuclear Business Unit Supply Chain Awards

July 12, 2022

Steve Vick International (SVI) are pleased to announce they won the New to Nuclear Award at the inaugural Morgan Sindall Infrastructure Nuclear Business Unit Supply Chain Awards. The event, ‘Working together with our supply chain,’ saw suppliers and members of the Morgan Sindall Infrastructure Nuclear unit come together to share and celebrate the successes they delivered in collaboration...
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SVI Provide Effective Solution For Immobilising Contamination In Pipes, Prior to Decommissioning at Hinkley Point ‘A’

June 16, 2022

Magnox, on behalf of Hinkley Point ‘A’, engaged with Steve Vick International (SVI) to ask them to design and supply an effective method for sealing and decommissioning radioactive pipework. Magnox were looking to decommission 1.2km of pipework housed in an Active Drains Trench (ADT). Access and spaces around the pipes were very restricted. SVI’s FOAMBAG™ system offered the...
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SVI PE Branch Saddles and Under Pressure Drill Technology used on new connections at Sellafield

January 26, 2021

SVI were contracted by One Aim – Jacobs, on behalf of Sellafield, the Infrastructure Strategic Alliance (ISA), to install a large diameter PE branch saddle on a 315mm HDPE pipe raw watermain diversion approximately 130 metres in length. The new connection was required so that a new building, under construction, at the Sellafield site could be included in the site fire hydrant network in case...
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Project Report – Isolation of four Primary Circuit Feeder Pipes from the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor, Winfrith

January 5, 2017

Location: Winfrith Project: Isolation of four Primary Circuit Feeder Pipes from the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor Contractor: Magnox Limited (previously RSRL) Equipment: SVI FOAMBAGS™, umbilical filling system, CCTV and closed cell polyurethane foam Steve Vick International (SVI) has recently completed a project for Magnox Ltd. The project required SVI to design, test and...
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Harwell Bepo Storage Block

April 20, 2015

RSRL Harwell first approached Steve Vick International about the use of their technology to tie down the contamination after initial investigations by Aurora Health Physics revealed higher levels of contamination than anticipated inside the storage tubes. SVI were asked to provide a proposal for the project which was to be one of the most technically challenging foaming operations SVI had...
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Steve Vick Take Part in Contaminated Duct Removal at Sellafield

Specifically, the company was commissioned to design a method of safely removing one metre lengths of ducting without contaminated particles becoming airborne, to carry out on-site trials and subsequently supply application equipment and sealants which Sellafield operatives would be trained to use. The method devised by Steve Vick involved using the company’s patented FOAMBAG™ technique,...
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Steve Vick Carries Out Pipe Sealing Operations At Harwell Bepo Site

November 1, 2014

Steve Vick International Ltd has recently completed a project for RSRL Harwell in conjunction with Aurora Health Physics. The project required SVI to design, test and install over 250 Foambags and Foam stoppers into the storage tubes of the BEPO storage block. Once installed and cured, mass void filling of the space behind the Foambags™ could take place. The operations were undertaken to...
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Resin Foam Technology Helps Nuclear Decommissioning At Sellafield July 2013

July 23, 2013

Steve Vick International has been involved in a pipe sealing project at Sellafield where “a complex set of decommissioning challenges” exist in dealing with the 60 year old First Generations Magnox Storage Pond (FGMSP). The scope of the work covered the removal of redundant pipework in a high radiation area and then cleaning and sealing a contaminated pond wall. The redundant 10cm...
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Steve Vick Take Part In Contaminated Duct Removal

November 18, 2011

Steve Vick International resin sealant technology has been successfully used at Sellafield to assist in the safe removal of approximately 10 metres of highly contaminated 150mm diameter ABS plastic duct that was previously used to extract a suite of gloveboxes from a Waste Washing Pilot Plant. Specifically, the company was commissioned to design a method of safely removing one metre lengths of...
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