Cyclife
Andrew Laker is an experienced professional in the nuclear industry, currently serving as Chief Transformation Officer and Head of Consultancy Services at Cyclife since April 2017. Previously, Andrew held the position of Vice President of Waste Management at Studsvik from January 2008 to March 2017, where responsibilities included Profit and Loss accountability for the UK Consultancy team and significant contributions to projects such as the Abu Dhabi NORM Plant. Andrew's career began at AWE, where extensive experience in health physics was gained, followed by a role at UKAEA as RPA/Health Physics Contract Manager, ensuring the provision of radiological protection services. Andrew’s diverse background encompasses health physics, waste management planning, and consultancy services within the nuclear sector.
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Cyclife
As a European pioneer, Cyclife group offers integrated servicing in nuclear decommissioning and dismantling radioactive waste management. Applying EDF’s unique waste-led decommissioning approach, Cyclife works with its customers in reducing costs and waste generation by optimising programmes and recycling valuable material via its subsidiaries. The three nuclear licensed sites of Cyclife based in France, the UK and Sweden, treat VL to LL waste, providing best available techniques for radwaste treatment and material recycling. Their ranges of services go from waste management and decommissioning consultancy to large component management, decontamination, waste-size reduction, melting, incineration and to pyrolysis. The group has a commercial structure in Germany. Cyclife also owns six engineering and expertise centres with highly skilled teams. They define scenarios for the full decommissioning of a nuclear facility using state-of-the-art technologies with the latest innovations: - Cyclife Digital Solutions performs studies with a robust real-time 3D digital tool, DEMplus® for nuclear, for simulation and decision support - Quadrica delivers digital twin solutions based on its own MySurvey® and VirtualSurvey softwares - Graphitech, a joint venture of Cyclife and Veolia Nuclear Solutions, and Cyclife Engineering are dedicated to the decommissioning of several types of reactors, the design of innovative remote tooling, and of waste storage/treatment facilities - Waste2Glass, a joint venture of Cyclife and Veolia Nuclear Solutions, aims to treat some radwaste utilising Geomelt® vitrification process - Aquila Nuclear Engineering creates containment, shielded installations, remote handling and transport/packaging for the nuclear industry.