Preston Laboratory
The Preston Laboratory on the Springfields site is designed to service the needs of businesses in low-activity uranium research and development as well as providing technical and business serviecs from an office base. It was opened in July 1997.
The building has three main areas:
- Uranium-active facilities
- Non-active research and development facilities
- Office accommodation
The Active facilities have two main areas:
1. Chemistry Facilities, providing:
- research and development chemistry laboratories
- process instrumentation laboratory
- rig development hall
- pilot plant capable of housing we process equipment
- radiometrics counting laboratory
- low level waste separations laboratory
- intermediate level waste physical and radiochemical characterisation laboratory
2. Oxide Powder Development Facilities, providing:
- powder processing laboratories and equipment
- total enclosures for work with bulk uranic and other hazardous powders
- pellet pressing facilities
- sintering furnaces
- powder and pellect QA testing laboratory
- facility for engineering development of uranium active rigs
- rig hall
The research and development facilities provide:
- chemistry laboratory
- chemical rig hall
- fluorine chemistry facility
- microscopy laboratory incorporating an environmental scanning electron microscope, an energy dispersal X-ray microscope, a secondary ion mass spectrometer, a laser confocal microscope and an atomic force microscope.
If you would like to discuss any business requirements, please use the Contact Us form or telephone on 01925 834560.
