About Grant Charters - Managing Director
Grant Charters provides Nuclear Radioactive Waste Management expertise, technical field and laboratory managerial operations for D & D and other radiation projects. His laboratory activities include development of strategies and procedures for sample collection, analysis, and characterization of radioactive samples. Grant developed and fine-tuned the techniques for sampling and characterization, which culminated in a patent pending process.
Before joining NMNTI, Grant was a Research Scientist at AEA (Atomic Energy Authority) Technology at Sellafield, UK. He devised methods and apparatus for safe, reliable collection and analysis of samples from nuclear facilities. His duties included supervision of and participation in decontamination and decommissioning of radioactive plants and equipment. Grant analyzed and a characterized radioactive waste, monitored radioactive iodine emissions from nuclear stacks, and was the Assistant QA/QC manager for several radioactive laboratories.
Grant has provided high quality production and management of development and scoping work, diplomatic liaising, and technical consultation to forge excellent customer relations in a highly competitive field thereby enhancing the company's image. He has researched and developed an investigation taking nine trials instead of an expected twelve to decontaminate Pile 1 material by 99% of its radioactivity. He also achieved a reduction in highly contaminated waste volumes reducing the cost and segregating the waste streams. Grant designed and developed a screening procedure for alpha contaminated solids, reduced operator handling time and at the same time increased the number of screened samples by 100% and final turn around time by 50%. In addition, he assisted in designing and developing procedures for radiological operations generating radioactive wastes therefore enabling segregation, monitoring, treatment, storage, and disposal. Grant has also developed real time radioanalytical results using gamma spectroscopy.