Merrick & Company offers multi-discipline services for designing hot cells, shielding systems, and remotely operated processing and manufacturing systems that handle, treat, process, or manufacture high dose rate radioactive material.

• Processing, manufacturing, and packaging radioactive isotopes
• Radiological analytical laboratories
• Experimental research facilities
• High level waste treatment and management systems and equipment
• Spent nuclear fuel research and development and re-processing cells and process equipment
• Advanced fuel cycle fuel manufacturing systems and equipment
• Accelerator targets and neutron research and development facilities

Services provided include:

• Shielding calculations and design
• Shielding storage vaults
• 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 remotely operated processing or manufacturing systems
• Upgrades for remotely operated process and manufacturing systems
• Shielding systems
• Civil and structural systems, including seismic analysis
• Lighting systems
• Windows and electronic viewing systems (cameras)
• Rad hardened I&C systems
• Contamination control features
• Plumbing, HVAC, piping, mechanical, and fire protection systems
• PC-1, PC-2, PC-3, and PC-4 designs

Project Examples

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source Target Hot Cell; Oak Ridge, TN.pdf
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Lab Design Modifications Building 325 Life Extension Project; Richland, WA.pdf
• Idaho National Laboratory Pu-238 Consolidation Conceptual Design Report; Idaho Falls, ID.pdf
• Idaho National Laboratory Remote Treatment Project Hot Cell; Idaho Falls, ID.pdf
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory 233 Disposition Project; Oak Ridge, TN.pdf
• Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd. Chalk River Laboratories Spent Nuclear Fuel Post Irradiation Examination Hot Cells; Chalk River, Ontario, Canada.pdf
• Los Alamos National Laboratory Isotope Production Hot Cell; Los Alamos, NM.pdf
• Brookhaven National Laboratory Waste Management Facility Hot Cell; Upton, NY.pdf
• Argonne National Laboratory West Remote Treatment Facility Feasibility Study; Idaho Falls, ID.pdf