Non-tritium radiation management
Beyond Tritium: designing and manufacturing specialized radiation monitoring systems
Tyne Engineering specializes in the design and manufacturing of Carbon-14 and a combination of particulate, Iodine and/or noble gas radiation monitoring systems.
Tyne design engineers complimentary radiation monitoring products, stack monitors and other customized systems such as continuous stack monitoring for particulates, iodine and noble gas volumetric activities in nuclear facility discharge stacks, ventilation systems and operational areas. This encompasses particulate monitoring, beta and gamma, to very low discharge levels normally seen in nuclear; iodine, both elemental and organic forms using gamma scintillation counters and Nobel gas, using direct gamma and beta measurements to provide accurate emission monitoring. Detection ranges include routine environmental monitoring, or higher activity level and accident level monitoring depending upon the system configuration specified.
Radioiodine can be found in hospitals and research environments, and is currently prevalent in the treatment of thyroid cancers. However, radioiodine has the potential to leak into the workplace. In the nuclear industry, radioiodine and other gaseous forms of iodine can be released into the air. Tyne’s iodine monitoring equipment is an important tool for detecting such breaches. Various factors such as air quality and water vapor can affect the efficacy of iodine detection, and Tyne takes everything into consideration during design and manufacture in order to provide clients with accurate and reliable data. With 25 years of experience in design and manufacture of nuclear instrumentation, Tyne is equipped to provide clients with the tools needed to make the work environment safe.
Carbon-14
Particulate
Iodine
Noble Gas
tritium
gamma - beta
Tritium processes are exceptional in their variety, frequently applying a combination of cryogenics, high temperatures, vacuum systems and high pressure. These systems are unique and complex, involving measurement, low leakage, critical containment and storage challenges.
Tyne is fully equipped and experienced to meet these challenges with innovation, cost control, partnership and quality.
With over 25 years experience in tritium systems design and manufacturing in the nuclear industry, we are fully aware of the documentation required for proper control both in nuclear power plants and other applications.
We are committed to keeping costs low, comprehensive scheduling, stringent quality assurance practices and furnishing all necessary certifications.
Tyne Engineering is experienced in the planning and application of efficient management for projects of varying size and scope. We are committed to effective scheduling and cost awareness while maintaining the highest level of safety and quality.
In each project we manage, we pay special attention to:
- Quality requirements and levels
- Applicable codes
- Cost efficiency and control
- Comprehensive scheduling
- Subject matter experts staffing
- Subcontracting and supplier sourcing
- Procurement and fabrication
- Inspection, testing and storage
- Drawing, models and documentation
- Management team overview and assurance
Quality management is an essential feature and plays an integral role in every project conducted by Tyne Engineering.
Our carefully developed QA procedures and manuals, certified to ISO 9001:2015, meet the needs of an extensive work scope from design through manufacturing and operation. We have been successfully audited by COG, through CANPAC, to CSA N299.1 and by AECL to the same level.
We have been approved independently by TSSA to design, build and repair piping systems and pressure vessels to ASME VIII Div 1 and B31.3. We are fully licensed by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to handle depleted uranium. Our TSSA certification applies to work performed both in-house and remotely.
Our QA manual includes research and development, allowing for unique flexibility during innovative planning. Our detailed developmental quality assurance program allows us to provide solutions to the challenging demands of the evolving nuclear industry by ensuring unsurpassed consistency and quality in the components and process systems we design and manufacture.
In keeping with our QA procedures, every project begins with a project plan referencing related design, manufacturing, quality assurance and development plans. Our rigorous standards ensure our products and services are leading the industry and exceeding our customers expectations.
- CSA-N286.2 by CANPAC (Nuclear Design Quality Assurance)
- CSA-Z299.1 by CANPAC and QMI (Nuclear Design Quality Assurance)
- EPRI-NP-5625 (for CGD by CANPAC)
- ISO9001:2000 by QMI
- TSSA certification to ASME Section VIII Div 1
- TSSA certification to ASME B31.1
- TSSA certification to ASME B31.3
- TSSA certification to CSA B51
- Tyne complies fully with 10CFR50 Appendix B and has been audited to ASME NQA-1 Nuclear Quality Assurance Program
Tyne Engineering has successfully designed, fabricated, assembled, and installed turnkey modular skid mounted tritium process systems for nuclear applications worldwide. Our methodology:
Conception > Front End > Systems Design > Controls & Automation Engineering > Fabrication > Installation > Start Up & Commissioning > Parts & Customer Service
Our systems are customized and designed to seamlessly integrate into our customers’ required process flow. Benefits include:
- Reduction in overall costs
- Entire process system is ready for installation
- Ideal temporary solutions and remote locations
- Offsite construction and testing reduces onsite costs
- Reduced construction infrastructure at your site
- Portability allows site location flexibility and export solutions
Tyne also specializes in custom built pilot plant design in various sizes for research and development in preparation for full scale production facilities.
enabling a safer working environment through customized monitoring solutions
Welding is an integral part of manufacturing and refurbishing instrumentation and process systems both in existing and new construction nuclear applications.
Tyne’s advanced welding technology and highly skilled welders perform to our approved welding procedures in TIG, stick, stud welding and automatic tube welding.
Our welding qualifications and procedures are designed to meet and exceed nuclear industry standards and requirements.
Tyne understands the importance of appropriate leak testing methods when commissioning nuclear components and systems into service.
We thoroughly test the integrity and leak tightness of technologies used in nuclear applications across multiple industries. Our customers are assured that the components and systems will operate reliably and safely.
Our facilities and specialized engineers are fully equipped to carry out helium leak testing to 1 x 10E-9 atm cc/s. Our strong partnerships allow us to claim full nondestructive evaluation (NDE) performance and manufacturing capabilities.
The performance of advanced vacuum technologies is critical to successful operation of components and systems not only within nuclear power plants (NPP), but also in nuclear applications across industries.
Tyne has been designing and building high and ultra high vacuum systems for the nuclear power industry worldwide for over 25 years. We specialize in LN2 and He cryogenics, having designed and built equipment employing cryotraps and multiple other system technologies.
We are fully licensed to carry depleted uranium. We supply industry leading getterbed technology and also manufacture small test sources including americium 241, and amorphous silicon-bound tritium sources.
Tyne designs and manufactures a broad range of high pressure vessels operating up to 600 psig and temperatures up to 1000°C. We incorporated one such vessel in the design and manufacturing of a combustion chamber/oxidizer we built for Ontario Hydro.
We not only provide custom design of pressure vessels, but we specialize in the design and manufacturing of complex nuclear process systems, pilot plants and modular plants. Our manufacturing complies with all ASME (including pressure vessel code), CRN and PED requirements and standards.
gaseous effluent monitoring
off-line and in-line monitoring
airborne release from stacks and ducts monitoring
gas and liquid applications
fixed and mobile applications
CARBON-14, PARTICULATE, IODINE, NOBLE GAS
Tyne specializes in the development of technologies that accurately and continuously measure volumetric activities of radioactive gases.
Assess presence of tritium in the exhaust ducting or plant exhaust stack. May be used in nuclear power stations, laboratories, fusion facilities, research facilities. Custom designed and manufactured to client's unique requirements.
Custom designed and fabricated by Tyne to allow continuous stack monitoring for particulates, iodine and noble gas volumetric activities in nuclear facility discharge stacks, ventilation systems and operational areas.
Tyne designs customized carbon-14 monitoring technology. Useful in determining if betas measured were in the form of tritium or carbon-14. Featured bench-top oxidizer allows for collection and analysis of carbon-14 content.
