JFNS provides plant characterisation services to industrial clients operating in challenging environments. These services combine a wide range of conventional and innovative inspection techniques with JFNS’s extensive capability in designing, manufacturing and commissioning robust and reliable remote handling and manipulator systems to deliver an improved understanding of the plant conditions. These services give plant owners characterisation information to improve the operation, maintenance or dismantling of operational or shut-down nuclear and industrial plants.
Surveys can include camera and radiation surveys for a visual inspection, thermal imaging surveys and ionizing radiation surveys. LASER scanning can be deployed to determine the precise spatial location of items. SONAR surveys can be deployed for assessing underwater profiles and the depth of sludges and a range of non-destructive tests can be deployed remotely.
Data from LASER scans and historical plant drawings can be converted by JFNS designers into interactive 3D models. As well as providing as-built records of facilities, the 3D models can be used as a framework for visualising other characterisation data. SONAR and other imagery can be integrated and presented as a layered model of the plant or vessel to aid the diagnosis of complex processes and problems.
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