Merrick & Company offers multi-discipline services for the design or design-building of special custom equipment for nuclear applications.

• Accelerator shielding
• Neutron beam shielding
• Neutron beam experimental equipment such as mono-chromators and spectrometers
• Spent nuclear fuel drying and conditioning equipment
• Tritium removal and capture equipment
• Tritium extraction facility glovebox
• Tritium facility modernization
• Visual examination glovebox
• Actinide conditioning and treatment equipment
• Radioactive waste treatment equipment
• Spent nuclear fuel conveying equipment
• Spent nuclear fuel cask conveying equipment
• Actinide furnaces, presses, grinders, and processing vessels
• Enrichment support equipment

Services provided include:

• Shielding calculations and design
• Piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) development
• Nuclear facility feasibility studies and conceptual designs
• Preliminary and detailed design for nuclear and radioactive facilities
• Nuclear facilities construction support services

Designs are provided for:

• New installations
• Upgrades for existing installations
• Piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) development
• Shielding or confinement systems
• Vessels and Piping
• Structural support systems
• Electrical and instrumentation and control systems
• Mechanical systems
• Fabrication, machining, and welding instructions
• Assembly and installation instructions

Project Examples

• Fuel Numatec Hanford Corp. Cold Vacuum Drying First Article Testing; Hanford Reservation, WA.pdf
• Sandia National Laboratiries Tritium Removal System Design; Albuquerque, NM.pdf
• U.S. Dept. of Energy, Hanford Reservice Hot Conditioning System Equipment; Hanford Reservation, WA.pdf
• British Nuclear Fuels, Ltd. Plutonium Stabilization and Packaging System (PuSPS); Aiken, SC.pdf
• Lockheed Martin Advanced Environmental Systems Radioactive Waste Management Complex; Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.pdf
• Argonne National Laboratory West Cask Cart and Cask Tunnel Modification Design; Idaho Falls, ID.pdf
• National Institute of Standards & Technology Monochromator Drum Design; NIST Center for Neutron Research; Gaithersburg, MD.pdf
• National Institute of Standards & Technology 10-Meter Small Angle Neutron Scattering Spectrometer (SANS); NIST Center for Neutron Research; Gaithersburg, MD.pdf