JFN has an impressive track-record at delivering development projects and innovation for its customers. JFN takes technology once the basic research and the laboratory development process has been completed and focuses on the practical implementation, demonstration, testing and qualification. Academic partners in developments have included the Dalton Nuclear Institute, the University of Lancaster, Loughborough University and Southampton University. JFN also has a track record at identifying technology which has been applied in a different domain and integrating it into a delivery system or adapting it for operation in specific challenging environments.
JFN has three rig halls and extensive experience of designing, building and testing proof of principal prototypes and completed products. With office space, design offices and rig hall all under the same roof, JFN is ideally placed to host a collaborative development team incorporating the technology supplier, JFN and the end-user. Where necessary, specialist test rigs, plant mock-ups or simulated environments can be constructed to thoroughly trial and qualify the equipment prior to operational deployment. The extensive design capability is backed up by in-house manufacturing and support services and a responsive local supply chain for additional plant, scaffolding and other engineering materials and supplies.
JFN is the preferred supplier to Energy Solutions for the adaptation of US nuclear decommissioning technology to European standards. JFN, in partnership with KANDE International, is currently delivering a development project 'Optimising the Design and Implementaton of NDT Inspection for New Nuclear Power Plants' with Technology Strategy Board funding and has delivered two development projects for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.