Safety Solutions for Complex Nuclear Industry Challenges

Alpha Safety brings together a unique blend of services and technology leveraging decades of experience to help support a cleaner and safer world for generations to come. Nuclear Past. Nuclear Future.

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Alpha Safety provides unique products and services and offers expertise that spans multiple end users across government and commercial nuclear markets. Alpha Safety supports customers with mission-critical cleanup and remediation projects, essential national security initiatives, and commercial energy innovations, including Advanced and Small Modular Reactors.

  • Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Golden Colorado, NFT is an industry leader dedicated to manufacturing of highly engineered, mission critical safety products used by the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
  • NFT’s products are used for safe handling, storage and transportation of radioactive nuclear materials and waste across a wide range of applications including plutonium research and development, transuranic waste transportation and disposal, flammable gas ventilation, as well as nuclear measurement and characterization services.

 

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  • Strategically located in Carlsbad, NM – within 30 miles of the WIPP – EPD is a NQA-1 nuclear quality certified manufacturer with in-house QC & advanced testing methods
  • EPD’s facility includes 14 CNC machines, laser weld capability for short-run & large-scale fabrication supported by best-in-class engineering expertise.

 

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  • Founded in 1986 as a technology transfer from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Pajarito Scientific Corporation (PSC) is an internationally recognized supplier of comprehensive, integrated solutions in the field of non-destructive assay (NDA) and criticality alarm systems (CAAS).
  • PSC solutions are utilized to locate, identify, and characterize radioactive material, and employs specially trained and qualified personnel with extensive knowledge and expertise within the nuclear industry to design, build, fabricate, operate and maintain the instrumentation.

 

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  • Since 1978, RPS has been an industry leader of applied engineered controls and systems for radiological and hazardous material applications to confine, contain, and control radioactive and hazardous contaminants.
  • RPS is among the industry leaders in HEPA ventilation, shielding, and containment solutions , including Permacon® for workplace environments where exceptional safety and efficiency is required.

 

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Alpha Safety supports customers across mission-critical cleanup and remediation projects, national security initiatives, and commercial nuclear operations, including:

Environment

Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) in protecting the environment during mission critical cleanup efforts from decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research

National mission to retrieve, characterize and measure, and ship waste to Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, NM

International cleanup and decommissioning efforts with Canadian Nuclear Lab (CNL), Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), and the TEPCO Fukushima site

Nuclear

Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) deterrence efforts as part of essential national security initiatives to reestablish capabilities lost after the Cold War and modernize facilities that have degraded over the last 30 years

Surplus Plutonium Disposition (SPD) mission at Savannah River National Labs (SNRL)

R&D activities across DOE labs including fuel cells, propulsion, heat generation, medical, and other research drives demand for material handling and storage solutions

Energy

Operational safety during seasonal nuclear power plant outages and maintenance turnarounds

Nuclear fuel generation, containment, storage and transportation

Safe handling and processes around development of groundbreaking technologies, including Small Modular Reactors (SMR) and High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU)

Capabilities

Alpha Safety provides a broad array of unique, safety products and services across radioactive material handling, advanced manufacturing, and integrated project services, such as measurement and characterization

Material Handling

Proprietary and highly specialized containers for handling and storage of plutonium and related waste.

Proprietary and highly specialized containers, including the SAVY-4000, for handling and storage of plutonium and related waste.

Filters, containers, ventilation systems, bags, and other consumables for the handling and transportation of transuranic (“TRU”) waste, and release of flammable gases such as Hydrogen from waste drums and other containers before and during shipping for storage.

Technology Solutions

Radioactive material identification, shielding, containment, ventilation, and filtration technology.

Non-Destructive Assay (NDA) Systems and Services to detect, locate, and characterize radioactive isotopes.

Customized design and delivery Criticality Accident Alarm Systems (CAAS) and high integrity public address systems.

Contamination controls including our Perma-Con® modular containment system and other custom enclosures, tents and modular buildings.

Portable High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filtration systems and carbon absorber systems.

Advanced Manufacturing

Over 25 years of experience in NQA-1 metal fabrication and precision machining.

NQA-1 design, metal fabrication, and precision machining.

Custom fabrication of highly engineered transportation containers and components.

Integrated Project Services

Characterization of legacy and newly-generated radioactive waste.

Testing and analysis solutions to various government and private customers.

Security cleared field engineers provide on-site services to DOE labs with scheduled testing of waste and other process byproducts regarding flammable gas detection.

Physicists and technicians operate on site to provide waste characterization & soil analysis through assay testing services, and 3D modeling and data analysis for remediation missions.

Testing and maintenance to ensure the integrity and safety of nuclear materials and retrieved containers, as well as Type B waste transportation casks.

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Our teams of nuclear safety experts are working daily to find creative solutions to the nuclear industry’s toughest challenges.  Let’s discuss your project.