RKVST shows the future of nuclear waste tracking with Zero Trust Fabric

Digital Catapult publishes Sellafield Distributed Ledger Technology Field Lab report

Cambridge, UK – July 12, 2022 – Zero trust fabric provider RKVST™ has shown how it can help safely and securely digitize processes for nuclear waste data tracking, creating a secure, irrefutable way to maintain the integrity of data while ensuring visibility for multiple stakeholders and organisations.

Digital Catapult, the UK authority on advanced digital technology, worked in collaboration with Sellafield Ltd, the UK’s largest nuclear decommissioning site, to run a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Field Lab™ to explore how distributed systems and distributed ledger technology can be used to solve current and future nuclear industry challenges. RKVST was selected to partner with Sellafield to solve the challenge of digitising nuclear waste data tracking and Digital Catapult has now published the results of that project in its Sellafield DLT Field Lab Report.

Nuclear waste containers are highly regulated, critical assets. The nuclear industry currently relies on paper-based processes and human verification throughout the lifecycle of each waste container. The challenge was to use advanced digital technologies to create a secure, irrefutable way of maintaining the integrity of this data across extended timelines (from decades to centuries) whilst ensuring visibility for multiple stakeholders and organisations.

RKVST combines cloud-based storage, identity and access management, and permissioned blockchain to deliver continuous assurance in shared asset data. For this project the RKVST zero trust fabric:

• Provides global waste asset visibility
• Ensures compliance with waste acceptance criteria
• Allows device-agnostic access
• Delivers continuous information assurance with accessibility, security, and resilience
• Integrates with industrial internet of things  (IIoT) sensors
• Results in cost savings and process improvements

Jon Geater, Chief Technology and Product Officer, RKVST says:
“With one in every five steps of the overall nuclear waste tracking process currently including a paper form or manual traceability requirement, introducing indelible and persistent audit trails will be critical for the long-term safety and security of the UK’s nuclear waste. Cryptographically protected records provide traceability and information integrity of nuclear waste assets both in transit and in storage at various sites. With a DLT-based system such as RKVST, these events are evidenced by an assured, auditable log of historic events which is an irrefutable and immutable record of what has happened, when it happened, and who was responsible for the event. We feel privileged to have partnered with Digital Catapult and Sellafield to demonstrate the benefits of adopting distributed systems to solve modern day business problems.”

Dr Robert Learney, Head of Technology, Distributed Systems, at Digital Catapult, said:
“There are wide ranging benefits that distributed ledger technologies can bring to the nuclear industry from securely tracking and monitoring high value assets to ensuring the safety of the workforce on site, and we are delighted to have partnered with Sellafield on this ground breaking project. This report demonstrates how cutting edge DLT solutions such as RKVST zero trust fabric can help tackle real life business critical challenges and make a tangible impact on the UK’s nuclear industry.”

RKVST is attending DECOM2022, stand 14, 20 July 2022 and NDA Group Supply Chain Event, 21 July 2022, at The International Centre, Telford, UK. 

About RKVST zero trust fabric  
RKVST (pronounced Archivist) is a SaaS platform that bridges the trust gap between enterprises.  Hosted on Microsoft Azure, it delivers the power of blockchain technology through a simple-to-consume API, integrating with any internet accessible application through industry standard authentication and authorization.

Customers use RKVST to solve challenges in handling nuclear waste, software transparency, zero trust connected devices, compliance in construction industries and many more business problems that could be solved if you only knew confidently who did what when to make reliable business decisions with real-time trust context. 

RKVST captures the identity of sources and origin of data (provenance), enforces sharing and visibility rules with strong cryptography (governance), and is underpinned by a ledger that prevents forgery, back-dating, or shredding of evidence (immutability). Together, provenance, governance and immutability bridge the trust gap.   

About RKVST 
RKVST was founded by experts in IoT, cybersecurity, digital identity and blockchain with a vision to overcome the biggest challenge in digital transformation and connected operations: trust. RKVST products and services bridge the trust gap, enabling developers to build, and business users to control, verifiable digital trust between organizations. To learn more visit RKVST.com