Ms Lorimer Fellingham

Principal of Waste Management Group at Nuvia Limited

Speaker

Dr Fellingham is a chartered chemical and nuclear engineer and radiation protection professional. He started his career in research at UKAEA Harwell, working on experimental and mathematical modelling studies of high temperature chemical systems and advanced battery systems. He worked at Dounreay on commissioning the Fast Reactor Reprocessing Plant. He has spent 40 years working in the UK nuclear industry for UKAEA, AEA Technology, RWE Nukem and Nuvia on various aspects of radioactive waste management, decommissioning and environmental restoration. He led research and development teams on the conditioning of various ILW and HLW streams and managed the RAWM R&D Business Centre at Harwell. He managed Waste Disposal and Site Remediation departments within AEA Technology.

He managed the Harwell Environmental Remediation Programme, the rehabilitation planning of the former UK nuclear weapons test site at Maralinga, the remediation of the Southern Storage Area, various NORM sites in the United Kingdom and overseas and the 2012 Olympic Park in London. He has worked on major nuclear projects for UK Government (DoE/ODA/DEFRA, DTi/DECC/BEIS and MoD), BNFL/Magnox, British Energy/EdF, Nirex/NDA/RWM, AWE, UKAEA/RSRL/DSRL, the European Community and numerous commercial clients at various sites in the UK and overseas, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech and Slovak Republics, Albania, Syria, Libya, UAE, Australia, Canada, South Africa and the USA. He has represented the UK on IAEA, CEC and NEA waste management committees and chaired many IAEA Technical Committees on different aspects of waste management, decommissioning, environmental restoration, safety and quality assurance.