NMNTI - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• MANAGING DIRECTOR
• Owner

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. Grant Charters is the co-founder and owner of NMNTI. Grant developed and implemented TruPro® a unique and patented sampling and characterization technology to attain rapid representative samples of sub-surface matrices at nuclear facilities. Grant provides Nuclear Radioactive Waste Management expertise, technical field and laboratory managerial operations for D & D and other radiation projects.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Co - Founder
• Owner
• PRESIDENT

Sue Aggarwal supervises all aspects of NMNTI's radiation programs, particularly compliance programs regarding license requirements for radioactive materials and radiation procedures in the laboratory and field. She also plans strategies and oversees activities in radioactive sample collection, analysis, and characterization. Prior to joining NMNTI, Sue was a Research Scientist at BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels), Incorporated, in the UK. At BNFL, she generated policy documents based on her reviews of liquid and solid radioactive waste streams. The waste characterization reports she wrote helped increase clients' awareness of the need for treatment of wastes. She also provided the technical support to initiate such waste treatment projects for BNFL. Sue was also Research Scientist at AEA (Atomic Energy Authority) in the UK. She directed a project to develop a new technology in waste management, which was later implemented commercially. During her tenure, quality assurance and record keeping procedures were upgraded, and her measures increased public confidence in nuclear waste disposal. Her coordination ability, combined with her technical knowledge, led to improved analysis and characterization of radioactive materials at various AEA sites. She has the capability to operate various radioanalytical instruments such as Liquid Scintillation Counter, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Spectrometry, ICP-MS, Wet Chemistry and mobile laboratory instruments. Personnel training and database formulation were also Sue's responsibilities. Sue has also successfully developed a new technology for expressing fluids from cement blocks at high temperatures in the nuclear industry and is proficient in technical research projects, improving quality assurance, training staff, writing procedures, and reports, publishing papers. She has knowledge of many laboratory instruments and computer modeling as well as experience in public speaking, technical presentations, budgeting, implementing policies, and procedures, interpretation of results and information technology. Sue Aggarwal is the owner and co-founder of NMNTI. Sue has over 30 years of experience in the nuclear industry, gained at the cutting edge of implementing upfront sampling and characterization technologies, and in profiling approaches prior to dismantling and decommissioning. She also plans strategies and oversees activities in radioactive sample collection, analysis and characterization.