National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) plays a key role in the UK and global nuclear industry.

That means reducing the cost of clean-up and decommissioning, maintaining critical skills and attracting talented new people to the industry.

Since July 2008, NNL has been providing independent advice to the UK Government and working with other National Laboratories around the world, delivering a full range of research and technology to support the nuclear fuel cycle.

Quite simply, NNL are the only UK organisation with the skills, facilities and expertise to provide technical support to all aspects of the nuclear industry.

What's more, NNL prides itself on offering quality, value and service to every one of its customers.

There are three core areas in which we operate as a business: Waste Management and Decommissioning NNL offer a range of products and services that focus on developing and applying techniques to decommission nuclear facilities.

Their skills cover the full dimension of wastes management and decommissioning projects, including environmental and effluent management, measurement and analysis and waste immobilisation technology.

Fuel Cycle Solutions NNL are focused on providing technical solutions to the nuclear industry.

This includes fuel cycle performance and technology development, spent fuel disposition and plant integrity.

NNL also handle nuclear security, safety management and engineering services, along with advanced modelling and simulation.

Reactor Operations Support As nuclear energy continues its resurgence worldwide, NNL offers vital support to reactor operations in the UK, including post irradiated examination and the performance of fuel components and graphite.

The services cover power station chemistry, endoscopy and metallography.

This means major customers, including the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Sellafield Limited, Springfields Fuels Limited, the MoD, EDF Energy and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).

In support of future decommissioning activities, the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) is carrying out a program of work to investigate technologies to detect and quantify residual liquor levels in vessels and pipelines.

In the initial phase of the project, NNL are interested in engaging with the supply chain to explore the capabilities of suppliers to either: a) Supply off the shelf equipment to meet some or all of the measurement requirements b) Modify existing equipment to meet some or all of the measurement requirements c) Develop bespoke solutions to some or all of the measurement requirements In the event that no suitable off the shelf equipment exists, NNL would like to work with suppliers to: 1) Determine the amount of development work which may be required.

2) See if the technology suppliers have their own R&D budgets that could be leveraged to meet Sellafield Limited's needs.

Supplier responses should be received by 15th September 2017.