Tritium handling design and manufacturing products and systems
ensuring safety by providing world class tritium handling technologies
Over 25 years of experience in research and development, designing, manufacturing, testing, commissioning and installation of tritium handling process systems.
Tritium handling and exposure control technologies vary depending on the application, chemical form, volume, concentration, and permeation of tritium. Tyne has extensive experience designing and manufacturing tritium handling systems for heavy and light water fission reactors and MSRs, radiochemical and pharmaceutical development, laboratory operations and fusion reactor applications.
Since tritium will permeate metal walls, it can diffuse through the walls of the blanket and coolant piping systems in reactor applications and therefore requires secondary containment, continuous flushing of the secondary containment atmosphere, and recovery. The need to meet modern environmental regulatory standards can require removal of tritium to the part per billion level. Tyne offers experienced management of tritium design and construction projects in order to meet the needs of the user, thus avoiding costly retrofits post project completion.
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.
- ISO9001:2015
- 10CFR50AppB (Quality Assurance for Nuclear Power Plants)
- 100CFR21
- ASME NQA-1
- EPRI-NP-5625 (for Commercial Grade Dedication)
- CSA-N285.0 (for Nuclear Pressure Retaining Items, certified by TSSA)
- CSA-B51 (including TSSA Certification to ASME Section VIII Div 1, ASME B31.3, ASME B31.1)
- CSA-N286.7-16 (Quality Assurance for Safety-Related Computer Software)
- CSA- N299.1 (Items and Services for Nuclear Power Plants)
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.
We are trusted by customers worldwide to furnish safe, high-quality and cost effective tritium handling 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.
Leak Tightness
Permeation Control
tritiated atmosphere containment
waste confinement
atmospheric cleanup
ventilation control
Tritium Handling
For over 25 years, Tyne Engineering has been customizing tritium handling equipment and systems for our valued clients worldwide. Our technology is designed and built using high vacuum technology. All pumps, valves and fittings are subject to our stringent quality standards.
Tyne designs and custom builds laboratory gloveboxes specific to the atmospheric and ergonomic requirements of the system to be contained. We specialize in gloveboxes designed for tritium handling systems where leak tightness and ease of accessibility is essential. Tyne's gloveboxes are designed for full integration into existing process systems.
Tyne's stack monitoring technology continuously monitors radioactive stack emissions including particulate, iodine and noble gas volumetric activities in nuclear facility discharge stacks, ventilation systems and operational areas. Used extensively in nuclear power stations, laboratories, fusion facilities and research centers.
Tyne's oxidizer technology converts organics containing tritium to tritiated water, making it easier to extract tritium for safe storage. Water containing tritium and other impurities is collected and purified, allowing for either long term storage or treatment by electrolysis in preparation for the full removal of tritium in a concentrator and isotopic separation system.
Removes tritium from titanium specimens retaining tritium on getterbeds for subsequent processing.
Molecular sieve beds and cryotraps are used frequently in tritium handling and similar applications. The cryogenic molecular sieve functions by drying gases and trapping or removing impurities in inert gas streams.
This low range, online radiation monitor was developed to continuously monitor radioactive particulate, iodine and noble gas volumetric activities in nuclear facility discharge stacks, ventilation systems and operational areas.
This system was designed by Tyne for the capture of tritium and carbon-14 from biological and environmental samples by pyrolysis followed by high temperature catalysis to THO and CO2. The evolved gases are captured in bubblers for THO capture followed by bubblers for CO2 capture. The resulting bubbler samples are analyzed using a laboratory liquid scintillation counter.
