CNIM wins 3 International Nuclear service contracts

CNIM announced that it has won 3  international contract to design and develop nuclear handling systems in UK, Finland and Ukraine.

The different contracts with the different companies are:

• In UK with EDF Energy:- chosen CNIM as its preferred bidder for the design, manufacturing and installation of a spent fuel unloading system for the two EPRTM units at Hinkley Point C.

• In Finland with Posiva Oy :- to engineer three fuel handling and transfer machines for an encapsulation unit being built at the Onkalo deep-geological spent nuclear fuel repository. CNIM will provide a cask transfer trolley, a fuel handling machine and a canister trolley.

• IN Ukraine with Novarka :-  for the construction of the new confinement structure at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

CNIM’s director of nuclear activities, Ludovic Vandendriesche said that the firm would need to complete the design, sourcing, manufacturing and in-house testing work for Novarka by November.

At last company said that the handling systems will be manufactured at CNIM’s facilities in France.

Image: Transfer Cask System – CNIM