Framatome I&C System as Nuclear Plant Modernization Solution French nuclear company Framatome and Lockheed Martin have signed a teaming agreement that will integrate Lockheed Martin’s Discrete Logic Solving System (DLSS) into proven Framatome instrumentation and control (I&C) nuclear plant modernization solutions. This solution combines the companies’ technologies and supports the safety and reliability of nuclear…
Cooperation to Support UK Nuclear Engineering Projects Edvance UK, the UK branch of Edvance, the French nuclear power plant reactor engineering entity co-owned by EDF and Framatome, and Assystem, the world’s second-largest engineering company, has agreed to a transition contract. The contract will see Assystem UK provide engineering services and support on a number of…
IAEA Pre-OSART Report on Flamanville-3 Is Now Available The French Nuclear Safety Authority (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire – ASN) has made public online the IAEA report of the pre-OSART (pre-Operational Safety Review Team) mission, which took place from 4-17 July 2019 at the Flamanville-3 nuclear power plant, under construction in Normandy. The main purpose of…
Technology Upgrade for Russian Nuclear Fuel Production Russia’s MSZ (Mashinostroitelny Zavod), part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL, has begun producing uranium dioxide powder for fuel pellets using new technology. A new site has started a pilot operation for the production of uranium dioxide powder by the reduction pyrohydrolysis method (RPGU). The large-scale…
Virtual Modelling Expertise To Keep Nuclear Projects On Track Virtual modelling expertise as a key in overcoming project delivery challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis. This is the core of the new collaboration between the UK shipyard and maritime engineering company Cammell Laird and the University of Liverpool. Cammell Laird has called upon experts at…
Ultrasound Technique to Test Welding Seams of ITER Components A new technique to test ultrasonically welding seams of key components of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is about to be developed by specialists in non-destructive testing of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Russia. Specialists from the EU, UK, China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and US…
TVO Plans a VLLW Disposal Facility at Olkiluoto Site Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) is planning the construction of a very low-level waste disposal facility at Olkiluoto. On 14th August 2020, TVO submitted an environmental impact assessment (EIA) programme for the plan to the Ministry of Employment and the Economy. Similar disposal facilities have been used…
Modernization Project Start at Mochovce NPP (Slovakia) On 15 August, Slovenské elektrárne shut down one of the two turbine generators at Mochovce NPP Unit 2, and after it cooled down, the Company started to dismantle the high-pressure and low-pressure parts of the turbine. This operation kicked off the most important part of the large and demanding modernization…
Chernobyl, New Technical Cooperation Project with IAEA The new technical cooperation project on Chernobyl nuclear site with IAEA has been initiated called UKR9040 “Supporting Ukrainian Institutions in Addressing National Decommissioning, Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management, including Radio-Ecological Monitoring”. The new cooperation cycle provides for the continuation of the IAEA expert support in the…
Framatome To Provide Field Instrumentation To Hinkley Point C French nuclear company Framatome signed a contract with Hinkley Point C to supply conventional field instrumentation for the two UK EPRs under construction at the nuclear power station located in England. Approximately 10,000 instruments will monitor and measure temperature, flow, pressure, and level under all operating…