One of Britain’s biggest fastest-growing nuclear engineering companies has been educating more than 200 people about its enhanced product range. Barrnon went to the DDP Innovation Day at West Lakes Science Park in September, showcasing technology developments and collaborations between supply chains, SMEs and Universities. It showed off its BLISSS
Barrnon’s latest product was the star attraction at Europe’s biggest nuclear supply chain event. Hundreds of people got the chance to see BIDS (Barrnon Integrated Decommission System) up close and personal, at Telford in July, in the UK with feedback impressive. One executive said: “It’s the most impressive thing here
A specialist R&D engineering company, which provides solutions to some of the world’s most challenging environmental threats, has won its most significant accolade to date – the Queens Award for Enterprise. Barrnon is based in Appleby in Cumbria. It focuses on modular technology that allows nuclear facilities to lower the
Barrnon has leveraged the success of its Mechanical Waste Gathering System (MWGS) to win a major contract at Dounreay. The site, one of Britain’s biggest nuclear facilities on the north coast of Scotland, wanted help removing contaminated concrete from its ponds. It put the scope out onto a Game Changers
A Cumbrian engineering company has won a major part of a £5.5m radioactive waste segregation competition. Barrnon, which is based in Appleby, solves problems in harsh environments by making modular robotics, primarily for the nuclear decommissioning industry. It’s the second government competition aimed at nuclear facility decommissioning that Barrnon has
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) recently published an update on its activities that point to an exciting future in the industry. The report also showcases many of the key projects supported by the Authority, including our own Barrnon Integrated Decommissioning System (BIDS) development which was a winner in the NDA’s
Barrnon has successfully concluded the second phase of Innovate UK’s Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) with an impressive demonstration of the Barrnon Integrated Decommissioning System (BIDS). Under the auspices of the £8.5 million Integrated Innovation in Nuclear Decommissioning (IIND) competition organised by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Phase 2 of
Barrnon’s reputation for rigorous testing has reached new heights with the construction of a towering purpose-built test structure at our Appleby site. The 20m test structure has been designed to replicate a segment of an underground storage tank from the Hanford site in Washington State, USA, and has been built