Press Release
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a €250 million contract with AREVA to supply safety instrumentation and control (I&C) technologies and systems for the French nuclear reactor modernisation programme. The systems will be installed in the twenty-strong French fleet of 1300 MW nuclear reactors operated by Electricité de France (EDF). Read it all..
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE PRESS RELEASE
University of Cambirdge work with industry to educate nuclear leaders of tomorrow
Some of the biggest companies and organisations in the nuclear industry are lending their support to a new course which will prepare the engineers and scientists of tomorrow for incidents such as those recently witnessed in Japan.
Despite the recent, unprecedented events at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, global nuclear investment appears likely to continue after a period of careful consideration of the lessons that need to be learned. In the UK, the Government has commissioned a review.
Sellafield Ltd has today announced that the contract for the Highly Active Liquid Effluent Facility project has been awarded to the HALEF Partnership, a consortium comprising AMEC, AREVA and Balfour Beatty.
The contract requires the consortium to work in partnership with Sellafield Ltd to further develop the concept design up to a point where the project definition and design can be fixed in order to bound the subsequent scope, schedule and cost for the construction phase of the project.
The work will commence immediately and it is anticipated that this phase will take approximately two years to complete.
On the satisfactory completion and there still being a business requirement, this will be followed by a four year procurement construction and commissioning phase, which is scheduled to commence mid 2012.
Speaking on behalf of Sellafield Ltd., Allan Townson, New Build Project Strategy Manager, said: “We are pleased to be able to award this contract to the HALEF Partnership and look forward to working in close partnership with the consortium in order to deliver a safe, reliable and cost effective Highly Active Liquid Effluent Facility for our customer, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority”.
The Highly Active Liquid Effluent Facility will store liquid radioactive waste, which arises from nuclear fuel reprocessing operations taking place on the Sellafield site.
The facility will comprise a number of high integrity Highly Active Storage Tanks and associated process equipment housed in a seismically qualified concrete building.
Press Release
Interim assessment reports for two nuclear power station designs being considered for construction in the UK have been made public.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published the reports on Step 3 of its Generic Design Assessment of the designs put forward by EDF/AREVA and Westinghouse. Read it all..
The UK nuclear safety regulator (HSE’s ND), the French nuclear regulator (ASN), and the Finnish nuclear regulator (STUK) are currently working to assess the EPR Pressurised Water Reactor.
In carrying out individual assessments, we have all raised issues regarding the EPR Control and Instrumentation (C&I) systems, which the proposed licensees and/or the manufacturer (AREVA) are in the process of addressing. Read it all..
EDF and AREVA have applied for generic design acceptance for the EPR from the UK regulatory authorities.
The UK EPR design is based on the Flamanville EPR (FA3) plant being built in France. Read it all..
Following negotiations that have been taking place over the last few months, the Gravatom shareholders have agreed terms for the sale of Gravatom Engineering Systems Ltd to the ONET Group, the €1.2bn corporate services company based in France with headquarters in Marseille. Read it all..
04 December 2008
Rolls-Royce today announced plans to work together with AREVA, the French nuclear power plant and services provider, on jointly agreed programmes which will see the first new nuclear reactors built in the UK for over 20 years. Rolls-Royce and AREVA have agreed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) and will work together on supply chain development, manufacturing and engineering services. Read it all..
Balfour Beatty News
Balfour Beatty, the international engineering, construction, services and investment group, announces that it is partnering with AREVA, a world leader in nuclear power, to ensure effective delivery of a fleet of EPR nuclear reactors (EPRs) in the UK. Read it all..
24 November 2008, NDA Press ReleaseThe Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) today completed one of the UK’s largest and most complex public procurement programmes when the shares in Sellafield Ltd transferred from British Nuclear Fuels Ltd to a specially created private sector consortium – Nuclear Management Partners Ltd.
Nuclear Management Partners Ltd (NMP) will own the shares in Sellafield Ltd for up to 17 years, the potential length of new and updated contracts between the NDA, NMP and Sellafield Ltd. The value of the work covered is worth £1.3bn in its first year and over the full lifetime of the contract approximately £22bn. Read it all..
