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| July 2005 | Major service contract for Consortium Belgatom-GTI at Borssele Nuclear Power Plant in The Netherlands | ||
| May 2005 | Belgatom ensures seamless continuation in the decommissioning services of Unit 1 of Ignalina NPP in Lithuania | ||
| March 2005 | The Suez-Tractebel / Electrabel consortium extends its contract with the EC for the ”On-site Assistance” of the nuclear plant of South Ukraine | ||
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| October 2004 | Successful replacement of the steam generators and power increase at Doel 2 |
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| March 2003 | Belgatom is added as a qualified supplier, for three years, to the Westinghouse Qualified Supplier List for Engineering consultancy | ||
| December 2002 | Belgatom to participate to ANDRA feasibility studies related to the future French deep geological final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste | ||
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| April 2002 | A new important achievement on the LRTP (Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant) project at the Chernobyl site | ||
| February 2002 | 11
months were sufficient to Belgatom to set up a detailed report describing
the technical design for decommissioning Kozloduy units 1 and 2 |
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| January 2002 | Belgatom participates in a major reactor decommissioning contract in Lithuania | ||
| October 2001 | ICEM'01, the 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation took place in Brugge, Belgium from September 30 to October 4, 2001. |
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| September 2001 | Come
and visit us at the Belgatom stand at ICEM'01, the 8th International
Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation |
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| August 2001 |
Overhaul
of Tihange 2 nuclear power station: excellent results |
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| July 2001 | Nucleonics Week, July 19, 2001: "Tractebel, PCI set record with new Tihange-2 steam generators" |
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| April 2001 | Tractebel Energy Engineering upgrades Doel 1/2 NPP to allow direct transfer of spent fuel to storage building | ||
| February 2001 | New contract for Belgatom in the frame of the decommissioning of units 1 & 2 of Kozloduy NPP A successful diversification: fire protection systems for the naphtha tanks at Fina Antwerp Olefins Tractebel Energy Engineering helps reducing the duration of planned outage at Doel 1 & 2 A new milestone in the "Doel 1/2 second ten-yearly safety reassessment" project
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| December 2000 | Operators
of the Hungary's Paks NPP are now using Belgatom supplied in-depth
engineering training tools and packages New successes of Corys TESS in nuclear power plant simulators (December 2000)
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| October 2000 | The Belgatom Seminar was held at our premises in Brussels (Belgium) on October 17 | ||
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September 2000 |
A major achievement in the construction of the Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant at the Chernobyl site (Ukraine) | ||
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A significant leap towards the decommissioning of units 1 & 2 of Kozloduy NPP |
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Major service contract for Consortium Belgatom-GTI at Borssele Nuclear Power Plant in The Netherlands (July 2005) | ||
The temporary partnership “Belgatom-GTI” wins a substantial EPC contract for modifications to EPZ’s nuclear power plant at Borssele, The Netherlands. |
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Belgatom ensures seamless continuation in the decommissioning services of Unit 1 of Ignalina NPP in Lithuania (May 2005) | ||
The Consortium consisting of National Nuclear Corporation Limited (NNC), Swedpower International A.B. and Belgatom S.A., led and managed by NNC and supported by STEAG encotec GmbH , has been awarded an extension of its contract with the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) for Consultant Services for the Ignalina NPP Decommissioning Support Project – Phase 2. |
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The Suez-Tractebel / Electrabel consortium extends its contract with the EC for the ”On-site Assistance” of the nuclear plant of South Ukraine (March 2005) | ||
After obtaining a one year contract in Marsh 2004 for the « On-Site Assistance » services at the nuclear plant of South Ukraine, the good performance of the Suez-Tractebel / Electrabel consortium has just been confirmed in December 2004. The consortium won an assistance contract in the same nuclear plant for duration of an extra three years. |
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Belgatom selected by ONDRAF/NIRAS to perform a study about the activation of MDS Nordion cyclotrons concrete in the frame of the assessment of their dismantling cost (January 2005) | ||
ONDRAF/NIRAS, the Belgian Agency for Management of Radioactive Waste and Fissile Materials, is in charge of setting up dismantling plans for several types of nuclear installations in Belgium, including cyclotrons such as the ones owned by MDS Nordion. |
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Successful replacement of the steam generators and power increase at Doel 2 (October 2004) | ||
On July 16th 2004 unit 2 of Doel nuclear power plant reached its new power level following the replacement of its steam generators. More details (download PDF file - 98 kB) |
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Belgatom is added as a qualified supplier, for three years, to the Westinghouse Qualified Supplier List for Engineering consultancy (March 2003) | ||
Westinghouse has conducted an audit in the Belgatom offices on 14 January 2003 in Brussels where Westinghouse has placed an order in the frame of the reevaluation of the Doel 2 Reactor Pressure Vessel internals. |
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Belgatom to participate to ANDRA feasibility studies related to the future French deep geological final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste (December 2002) | ||
Last October, ANDRA awarded the feasibility studies related to the vertical and horizontal transport systems of the deep geological final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste to a consortium formed by Coyne et Bellier, Deilmann-Haniel and Belgatom (leader). Further to the conceptual studies, the associated risk assessment , safety analysis and cost estimates will also be performed. |
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Tractebel Energy Engineering establishes a qualification file for the 400-l drums used by Electrabel for conditioning radioactive waste (November 2002) | ||
| Tractebel Energy Engineering has established a qualification file for the 400-l drums used at Electrabel Doel and Tihange power plants for conditioning radioactive waste, such as spent filters, resins, evaporator concentrates and miscellaneous solid waste. For our customer Electrabel, this qualification file was necessary to pursue the on-going conditioning of radioactive waste on its two nuclear sites while obtaining further authorization to transfer the drums to the Belgoprocess site and their property to ONDRAF/NIRAS, the Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials. |
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Belgatom helps the Dutch nuclear power plant of Borssele define the programme for its ten-yearly overhaul (November 2002) | ||
| Borssele is now expected to remain in commercial operation until at least 2014 Since several months, two of Belgatom's specialists are helping EPZ, the operator of Borssele NPP located in the province of Zeeland, with the execution of the plant's ten-yearly safety review, particularly as regards the evolution in international safety regulations and practices. This support mission is planned to run till the end of 2003. |
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A new important achievement on the LRTP (Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant) project at the Chernobyl site | ||
| Belgatom, leader of the "Belgatom-Ansaldo-SGN" consortium, Contractor for the construction of the LRTP on the Chernobyl site, announces the completion of the main concrete structure of the LRTP building, as the last batch of structural concrete was poured on April 23rd. |
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11 months were sufficient to Belgatom to set up a detailed report describing the technical design for decommissioning Kozloduy units 1 and 2 | ||
| In January 2001, following an international call for tenders and after having carried out the first phase of the Phare EC funded project "Technical design for decommissioning Kozloduy NPP units 1, 2" from January 1999 to July 2000, Belgatom was awarded a new EC funded contract to carry out the second phase of the technical design for decommissioning Kozloduy units 1 and 2. This contract has been carried out with EWN and Enpro Consult under the leadership of Belgatom. The whole project was completed in 11 months only instead of the 14 months initially foreseen in the schedule of the call for tenders. |
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Belgatom participates in a major reactor decommissioning contract in Lithuania (January 2002) | ||
| The decommissioning of ageing nuclear installations will be an important challenge of the first decades of this new century. Belgatom, already an international player in this field, did participate, as member of a consortium led by NNC (UK), with SwedPower (Sweden) as a partner and STEAG (Germany) as a subcontractor, to the call for tender for the PMU (Project Management Unit) for the preparation of the decommissioning of the Ignalina NPP. The contract was awarded to our consortium on December 10th, 2001. The subject of this contract, amounting to €12.5 M, and won in a highly competitive context, is the preparation of the decommissioning of the first unit of the nuclear power plant equipped with two RBMK reactors. |
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ICEM'01, the 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation took place in Brugge, Belgium from September 30 to October 4, 2001. (October 2001) | ||
| It was organized and sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Technological Institute of the Royal Flemish Society of Engineers in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Belgian Nuclear Society. |
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Come and visit us at the Belgatom stand at ICEM'01, the 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation (From September 30 to October 4, 2001) | ||
| Come and visit us at the Belgatom stand at ICEM'01, the 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. This event will take place in Brugge, Belgium from September 30 to October 4, 2001. It is organized and sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Technological Institute of the Royal Flemish Society of Engineers in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Belgian Nuclear Society. |
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Belgatom completes the civil works of a new building for the retrieval, treatment, conditioning and final characterization of radwaste containers (August 2001) | ||
| End of July 2001 the civil works for the new facility B280 at the Belgoprocess site were completed. This task, achieved within the original time schedule, will be followed by the erection and test phases of the functional equipment. The commissioning of the whole installation is planned for mid 2003. More details (download Word file - 167 kB) |
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Overhaul of Tihange 2 nuclear power station: excellent results (August 2001) | ||
| BRUSSELS, 16 AUGUST 2001 · On 11 August 2001 at 8.15 p.m. the Tihange 2 nuclear power plant was reconnected to the Belgian electricity grid after having been shut down for special servicing work on 9 June. Several months of careful planning by teams from Electrabel and Tractebel Energy Engineering led to this scheduled shutdown during which important work was carried out, including:
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Nucleonics Week, July 19, 2001: "Tractebel, PCI set record with new Tihange-2 steam generators (July 2001) | ||
| Nucleonics Week, July 19, 2001: "Tractebel and Westinghouse-PCI have claimed a new record for steam generator replacement at Tihange-2, exchanging three generators in 17.5 days between first cut of primary piping to reactor coolant system readiness. According to PCI Energy Services, Westinghouse's mechanical and welding subsidiary, the steam generator welding at Tihange-2 also took a record short time, under eight days." More details (download PDF file - 732 kB) |
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First concrete poured for the new interim storage building for conditioned category B (long-lived) radwaste (July 2001) | ||
| In June was poured the first concrete of the foundations for building 155 at the Belgoprocess site in Dessel. This building, with a floor area of 3400 m², is intended for the interim storage of conditioned category B (long-lived) radwaste. It is designed to resist an earthquake and an external explosion, and its useful life is some 100 years. Belgatom was appointed Architect-Engineer for this project by ONDRAF/NIRAS (Belgian Radwaste Administration in charge of the radwaste management in Belgium) in August 1999. Tractebel Energy Engineering is in charge of the civil works and HVAC parts of the project, and provides also the expertise for the handling aspects. The construction budget is EUR 7.2m |
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Electrabel completed the first stage of the property transfer to the State Agency ONDRAF/NIRAS of its nuclear waste conditioned on the Tihange site during the period 1981-1991 (July 2001) | ||
| Electrabel entrusted Tractebel Energy Engineering with the task of drawing up process sheets for the radwaste conditioned on the Tihange site between 1981 and 1991. These process sheets describe to the best possible extent all the types and contents of conditioned waste drums, as well as the related treatment and conditioning installations. Since 22.11.91 the treatment and conditioning facilities for all nuclear waste produced in Belgium must, by law, be qualified by ONDRAF/NIRAS, the Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials. This legal requirement does not apply to radwaste conditioned before the Royal Decree came into force. Nevertheless, Electrabel, the Belgian utility, agreed to provide ONDRAF/NIRAS with process sheets in order to ensure the further safe management of the radwaste conditioned at its nuclear power plants before 22.11.91. |
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Tractebel Energy Engineering upgrades Doel 1/2 NPP to allow direct transfer of spent fuel to storage building (April 2001) | ||
| In early 2000 a project was launched consisting of adapting the installations of Doel 1/2 NPP to allow the receiving, handling and loading of a TN24SH-container and its direct transfer to the container storage building (SCG). The decision to go ahead was based on the results of a study performed by Tractebel Energy Engineering confirming the feasibility of the installations upgrade. Previously, due to the limited existing capacity of the handling equipment in the fuel building of Doel 1/2 NPP, the spent fuel was first transported to Doel 4 in a low capacity container where it was then loaded in the high capacity TN24SHcontainer (37 spent fuel elements) before being transferred to the SCG-building. Direct transfer from Doel 1/2 NPP to the SCG-building saves a lot of labour on site (transfers between units) and thus costs. It also avoids using part of the Doel 4 spent fuel storage capacity during transfer. |
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New contract for Belgatom in the frame of the decommissioning of units 1 & 2 of Kozloduy NPP (February 2001) | ||
| The preparation of the decommissioning of units 1&2 of Kozloduy NPP speeds up. After having carried out the first phase of the Phare EC funded project "Technical design for decommissioning Kozloduy NPP units 1, 2" from January 1999 to July 2000, Belgatom (leader) and its partner EWN have been awarded the second phase of the project in December 2000. The subcontractors are ENPRO Consult, a Bulgarian engineering company and SCK·CEN, the Belgian nuclear research centre. |
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A successful diversification: fire protection systems for the naphtha tanks at Fina Antwerp Olefins (February 2001) | ||
| In the course of 2000 Tractebel Energy Engineering studied and designed the fire protection systems for seven naphtha tanks with a capacity of 50,000 m³ each. The mission included the drafting of the detailed specification for the fire protection of these tanks, comprising mainly the description and sizing of the foam generators, the electronic cards for the interface, the data transmission exchange. |
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Tractebel Energy Engineering helps reducing the duration of planned outage at Doel 1 & 2 (February 2001) | ||
| Thanks to studies carried out by Tractebel Energy Engineering, the duration specified in the Technical Specifications between the reactor shutdown and the refuelling itself has been drastically reduced for Doel 1 and Doel 2 nuclear units. |
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A new milestone in the "Doel 1/2 second ten-yearly safety reassessment" project (February 2001) | ||
| Since 1983, Tractebel Energy Engineering (TEE) has gained considerable experience in the field of safety reassessment of NPPs. All 7 Belgian units have already been subject to such a process carried out each 10-years of operation. TEE approach is pragmatic, cost-effective, global and integrated. At the end of 2000, a new important milestone has been achieved in the "Doel 1/2 second ten-yearly Safety Reassessment" project: the revision of the Synthetic Report has been presented to the competent authorities. |
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A major achievement in the construction of the Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant at the Chernobyl site (Ukraine) (September 2000) | ||
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civil work contract for the building construction was signed on June
22, this year, and excavation started on August 16 while the site
installation is in progress. The pouring of the first concrete is
expected for end of September. This constitutes the first important
step of this complex project ... FULL ARTICLE, BACK TO NEWS |
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A significant leap towards the decommissioning of units 1 & 2 of Kozloduy NPP (August 2000) | ||
| The "Technical design for decommissioning Kozloduy NPP units 1, 2" project carried out for Kozloduy NPP, a Bulgarian utility, just came to an end in July 2000. Belgatom was the leader for this project financed by a Phare contract of the European Commission, with EWN and Energoproekt as subcontractors. It consisted of the four following tasks :
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Electrabel and Tractebel Energy Engineering cooperate to optimize startup tests procedures for the Belgian NPPs (August 2000) | ||
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A new Belgatom success story in Central Europe countries : Phare project SRR3/95 (May 2000) | ||
In the frame of its Nuclear Safety programs, the European Commission launched in 1997 the Phare SRR3/95 project aimed at the improvement of the basis of the thermalhydraulic analyses required for the safety assessment of VVER reactors (Experimental and Calculational Investigation of System Behaviour during Accident and Accident Management in VVER Reactors). The project has been awarded to a Consortium formed by Framatome, Siemens and Belgatom, the latter acting as project leader. The Counterpart Team Leader representing the Beneficiaries (the Safety Authorities from Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Bulgary) was KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute, Hungary. The project has been successfully achieved with KFKI, VUJE, EGP, NRI and EREC acting as subcontractors to Belgatom; and, Konstandin & Partner, CEA, FZR and Comset as material suppliers to improve the Hungarian PMK-2 test facility... FULL ARTICLE, BACK TO NEWS |
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Successful first return to the country of vitrified high-activity waste in the B136 Building, specially designed by Belgatom (May 2000) | ||
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Belgatom to design the Tokamak Cooling Water Systems, the associated auxiliary systems and the Heat Removal Systems for ITER (May 2000) | ||
Besides the analysis of safety cases, Belgatom has been assigned for the design of the Tokamak Cooling Water Systems, of the associated auxiliary systems and of the Heat Removal Systems for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). This assignment was possible due to the past experience acquired by Belgatom in the field of the design of nuclear Pressurized Water Reactor auxiliaries and cooling systems. . FULL ARTICLE, BACK TO NEWS |
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