EDF - Robatel

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INTRODUCTION
•PRÉSENTATION
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ENGINEERING | DESIGN | CALCULATIONS
•INGÉNIERIE | ÉTUDES | CALCULS
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TURNKEY PROJECTS
•ENSEMBLIER
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HOT CELLS
•CELLULES BLINDÉES
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GLOVE BOXES
•BOITES À GANTS
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CASKS
•EMBALLAGES
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NEUTRON THERMAL PROTECTIONS
•PROTECTIONS NEUTRONIQUESP.
THERMIQUES
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DOORS HATCHES
•PORTES | TRAPPES
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METAL WORKING
•CHAUDRONNERIES DES MÉTAUX
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ASSISTANCE | SERVICES
•ASSISTANCE | SERVICES
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French company set up in 1830
Involved in the nuclear field since 1953
LOCATIONS :
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Rue de Genève - BP 203
69741 GENAS Cedex
Tel. 00 33 472 22 10 10
Fax 00 33 478 90 23 79
[email protected]
Capital of 1,800,000 Euros
100 % subsidiary of ROBATEL SA
Genas (headquarters)
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La Hague
Z.I. de Digulleville
50440 BEAUMONT-HAGUE
Tel. 00 33 233 01 80 00
Fax 00 33 233 04 09 57
[email protected]
> 110 employees
Turnover > 16 M€
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Marcoule
Z.I. de L'Ardoise
30290 LAUDUN
Tel. 00 33 466 50 49 20
Fax 00 33 466 50 30 80
[email protected]
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► Genas
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headquarters
► Establishment
of Cadarache
Cadarache
Zac du Pas de Menc
83560 VINON SUR VERDON
Tel. 00 33 492 70 63 35
Fax 00 33 492 72 28 19
[email protected]
January 2009 :
established
ROBATEL Technologies, LLC
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Subsidiary of ROBATEL SA
In charge of the ROBATEL Group’s
development on the American nuclear
market
LOCATION :
 ROBATEL Technologies, LLC
3130 Chaparral Drive, Suite 102,
Roanoke, VA 24018
Tel. : 001 540 989 2878
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Our skills
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Design, calculations, studies
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Turnkey projects
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Metal working
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Mechanical engineering
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Lead working
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Site operations
Company’s certifications
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CEFRI
no. 348 E Management of staff category "A" or "B" working under radiation.
ISO 9001 / 2008
Quality Management in the design, manufacturing, installation, maintenance of
equipments for industry and research in the nuclear field.
Since 2010, ROBATEL is authorized to use decontaminated lead outgoing from
CEA.
CAEAR
Notification of acceptance for the following areas :
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Genas : Domain D 4-2E “Assistance in work control and occasional design studies”
La Hague and Laudun : Domain D 3-1 «Intervention environment according to the radiation protection
of the regulated area».
EDF
Certificate of qualification to perform services
in the following EDF qualification systems :
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Activity on fuel
 Nuclear logistics maintenance
 Intellectual services and technical assistance
 Transport
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QA/QC capabilities: NQA-1 & 10 CFR Part 71
► Obtaining
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the Label supplier AREVA
Our main French
customers
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► Radiation
shielding of the French nuclear-powered
submarines
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AREVA NC, AREVA TA, AREVA NP, TNI, SGN,
MELOX, STMI
ALSTOM, CEGELEC
ANDRA
CAMECA
CERCA
CIS BIO
DCNS
Délégation Générale pour l’Armement (DGA)
IRSN
GROUPE ONET
EDF : AMI - DAC – UTO - CIDEN – CNPE - DCN
GANIL
LINAC
SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL
CEA : Cadarache, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Grenoble,
La Hague, Marcoule, Pierrelatte, Saclay, Valduc
……..
Some of our customers abroad
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AUSTRALIA
 ANSTO
BELGIUM
 Belgonucléaire / Eurochemic, Mol
 Institut des radioéléments (IRE)
 IBA / SCK CEN / Transnubel
 BELGOPROCESS
BRAZIL
 CTMSP
CANADA
 TRIUMF
CHINA
 China nuclear industry huaxing
 China nuclear energy industry corp
GERMANY
 Babcock Noell
 ITU
ITALY
 EURATOM, Ispra
 CNEN, Rome
JAPAN
 Tokai Mura
 JNFS
MAROCCO
 CNESTEN
NORWAY
 ABB Norsk Kabel
 ALGETA
SOUTH KOREA
 KAERI
EGYPT
 Atomic Energy Establishment
GREAT BRITAIN
 BNFL
CZECH REPUBLIC
 Nuclear Research Institute
SWEDEN
 SKBF
SWITZERLAND
 CERN
 ZWILAG
U.S.A.
 Allied General Nuclear Services
 General Atomic
 SHAW AREVA MOX SERVICES LLC (JV)
 Department of Energy
 Premier TECHNOLOGY Inc.
 UT-Battelle
 U.S. ITER Project Office
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Preliminary design
Studies of turnkey for
completes installations
Feasibility studies
Mechanical calculations
Thermal calculations
Radioprotection calculations
Crash calculations
OUR SOFTWARE MEANS :
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DAO : Autocad
CAO : Solidworks
Calculations :
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Mechanical calculations finished elements : Ansys 11.0, Cosmosworks
Thermal calculations finished elements : Ansys 11.0
Radioprotection calculations : Microshield 6.10
Crash calculations : LS-DYNA 971s R5.1.1
Various analytic calculations (RDM, mechanical, thermal, containment, …) : Math Cad 2001
Example of tradeoff study followed
by manufacture
VERDON laboratory,
CEA Cadarache
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PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF A LABORATORY,
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE
FOLLOWING AREAS :
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Civil engineering
Seismic calculations
Electricity high and low voltage
Drive control – automation
Ventilation
Handling equipment
Mechanics, metal working
Future maintenance and operation
Risk analysis
On site assembly and testing
Preliminary study
example
Mo / Tc laboratory,
CIS BIO Schering
PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF A LABORATORY,
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE
FOLLOWING AREAS :
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Nuclear and pharmaceutical regulations
(GMP)
Production rate criteria
Interface civil engineering / new building
Control - automation
Electricity high and low voltage
Ventilation
Handling equipment
Mechanics, metal working
Future maintenance and operation
Risk analysis
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Turn-key
installations
Waste sorting and
conditioning unit,
EDF/AMI Chinon
This unit allows to sort waste thanks to a shielded tight
cell equipped with remote controlled robotized handling
means.
These waste are sorted according to their physicochemical properties and radiological characteristics.
Then, they are reconditioned for shipment to ANDRA’s
or other sites.
THIS INSTALLATION IS COMPOSED OF THREE
AREAS :
 A sorting cell made of concrete, totally lined with a
stainless steel sleeve, equipped with telemanipulators,
an overhead crane, a cutting press, and a spectrometry
control station. This cell is a fire-barrier with regard to its
environment, and is dimensioned to stand a seism.
 A loading/sealing station, with conveyors and
elevators for leading new drums under two tight hatches
communicating with the sorting cell, and two drum
sealers,
 An evacuation lock-chamber equipped with an
automatic device measuring the contamination by
rubbing
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Waste sorting and conditioning unit, EDF/AMI Chinon
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Radioactive waste
cementation unit,
ZWILAG
(Switzerland)
MAIN OPERATING FUNCTIONS :
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Reception and storage of various
concrete components,
Eventual pretreatment of some
homogeneous waste,
Preparation of the concrete (mixing),
Draining of the concrete into drums or
transfer towards concrete work
stations,
Cleaning of the injection system, and
recovery of the rinsing effluents,
Transfer, drying and control of the
drums.
Outstocking of plutonium packings
contained in drums located at the
« Pégase » regulated nuclear
facility of CEA CADARACHE
(partnership with companies
ONECTRA and SOGEDEC)
MAIN FUNCTIONS PROVIDED :
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Outstocking of over 2,700 drums
through packaging developed to
meet the safety criteria,
Transfer with sealing of the
packagings drums to gloves boxes,
Measures and wastes
characterization,
Compaction of empty drums,
Injection of mortar in 870 liters
drums containing the wastes,
Evacuation of drums to storage,
Aim of the project: 2 years to
develop, manufacture and
installation. 3 years of operation.
Equipment for MOX fuel production plant
► Rods
final inspection
and sorting
► Rods
► Powders
handling
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► Filters
decontamination
storage and
► Rods
handling carriage
pre-clogging
Incineration and cementing unit for very low level waste - Shipyard in
Severodvinsk, Russia
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AGATE, CEA Cadarache :
Glove boxes of samples-taking, pneumatic
transfer and distribution of pitchers
SCOPE OF PROJECT :
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Integration of part of the process of
the Advanced Management
Workshop and Effluent Treatment,
Design, manufacturing, installation
on site, testing and commissioning
of a set of four glove boxes
(calculated earthquake) automated
sample-taking, connected by a
network of pneumatic transfert
Integration of all automated
mechanical elements and control
systems,
Supply and installation of
sorbonnes.
Equipment for French DCN
► Shielded
shell
Mass 70 tons
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► Tooling
K15
Mass 90 tons
► CEA
Design, manufacture, assembly
and tests of a loading and
unloading platform for type B
casks
► EDF
Design, manufacture,
assembly and tests
of a radioactive
waste cementation
unit
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► CEA
► Docking
Valduc
Collimator
for drums with the holding and the
sealing of the lid
► CEA
Specific device used for transfer, control and reconditioning
of waste containers from storage pit
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Design, manufacture
and assembly
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Photo credit :
P.Stroppa / CEA
► Atalante
Designer and manufacturer of hot cells
since the 60s,
ROBATEL Industries still develops new
techniques and improves its skills in the
field of design and manufacture of hot cells.
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Design, manufacture
and assembly
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3 cells for IRE, Belgium
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Last references 2002 / 2006
► Hot
cells for SCK CEN,
Belgium
► Hot
cells for the nuclear center
of Morocco
Supply of 1,800 tons of lead shielding for
the CEA Saclay (PELECI)
► Hot
cells for SCK CEN,
Belgium
► Boucliers
cellules du LECA, CEA Cadarache
Design, manufacture
and assembly
► Pharmaceutic
Cis Bio (IBA)
cell
► Neutron
Saclay
cell (PNT7™ Robatel) CEA
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Last references 2007 / 2012
► Cell
for microprobe
Karlsruhe
► ALGETA
cell on SCK plant
► Cadecol
► Hot
cell for
Cyceron
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cell
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Study, manufacture, assembly
► MELOX
► MELOX
► CEA
► CEA
► CEA
► CEA
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► MELOX
► COGEMA
► ZWILAG
Photo credit : P.Dumas / CEA
Study and manufacture of internal equipment
► MELOX
► AREVA
► IRSN
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► ALL
FILL (GB)
NC
► CEA
Glove boxes dedicated to a US MOX plant,
manufactured in 2009
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Design & approval
Starting with the first
French reactor “ZOE”, 60
years of experience :
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Design and acquisition of 74 approvals of
type B transportation casks
Design of many casks: type A, IP2, …
Extension of approvals
Elaboration of special arrangements
ORIGINAL TECHNICAL PATENTED :
 Neutron-absorbing and thermal protections:
compounds ROBATEL # 9™, 10™, 21™,
22™, PNT7™, PNT3™
 «Thermal switch » protection
 Tightness by triple seals
► Underwater
Transportation of a
1300 MW PWR fuel
assembly
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► Shuttle
for vitrified HLW
Scale models - drop
and fire tests
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meter drop test of a type B cask
Design and manufacture of scale models
Drop tests carried out on our In-house drop
test facility
Performance of fire tests (800°C, 30 min)
► Scale
model of a type B cask for
concrete transportation shells
Design &
manufacture
Over 800 casks
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R72 cask
Rod transportation for EDF (type B cask)
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R72 cask
Rod transportation for EDF (type B cask)
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R73 cask
This cask has been designed for
EDF CIDEN to transport activated
metallic waste from dismantling
(type B cask)
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R69s cask
Spent fuel transportation package
CABRI, IRSN Cadarache
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R74 cask
Design, approval, manufacturing of 2 type B casks R74 for wastes
transportation Scotland (Dounreay) (Dounreay) / Belgium (SCK)
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Other current projects :
R75 cask - EDF UTO - Design, approval and manufacturing of a type
B cask for the transportation of 5 cluster guides
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Other current projects :
R76 cask
CEA Cadarache
Design, approval and manufacturing
of 4 Type B casks for the
transportation of waste drums.
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Other current projects :
R77s cask
AREVA NC
Design and manufacturing
of a site cask for the transportation
of 4 drums of alpha wastes
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Other current projects :
RTG32s cask
EDF UTO
Design and manufacture of nine
casks to store 32 clusters guides
(charged mass of 57 tons)
RA03
EDF CIDEN
Design and manufacture of a
cask for transporting the lid of
the vessel of Chooz A reactor
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Crédit photo : CEA
Recent references :
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– Design of type B cask for radwaste
► EDF
– 30B and 48Y Casks (2010)
► CEA
– Design and manufacture of cask for glove boxes
– Design of a type B cask for concrete shells, and
certification
► EDF
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Recent references :
► EDF
CIDEN
Design and approval of PNL casks for
Super Phénix ; manufacture of 58 casks
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: Type B cask R64, transport of neutron sources
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: Cask Phénix
► CEA
: Pégase container
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Compound
ROBATEL no. 9TM
and no. 10TM
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CP9 (PPB)
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With a binder based on plaster, these neutron
materials can be used for any protection which does
not support any thermal or any particular
mechanical constraints
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It is, preferably, implemented in metallic boxes,
securely sealed so that it retains its optimal
characteristics. In this case, the access to the inside
of boxes at the time of implementation should be as
wide as possible. In the absence of containment, it
should take into account the progressive loss of free
water by drying.
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This type of material was subjected to irradiation
testing until an integrated flux of 1,8.1017 thermal
neutrons/cm². No apparent degradation was
observed
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Chemical composition: boron, calcium, carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, miscellaneous.
Density : 1,15 to 1,25 g/cm3.
Material approved by : CEA, AREVA, EDF.
Compound
ROBATEL no. 21TM
and no. 22TM
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Neutrophage materials made of a base of polyester
resin. They have independent properties to any
containment. They are generally molded to the
shape and size desired and can be, if necessary,
machined.
They enable to make protection with a high
mechanical strength and good heat resistance.
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This type of material was subjected to irradiation
testing until an integrated flux of 1,4.1018 thermal
neutrons/cm². No apparent degradation was
observed
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Chemical composition: aluminum, boron, calcium,
carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, miscellaneous.
Density : 1,20 to 1,30 g/cm3.
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Material approved by : CEA, AREVA, EDF.
Facilities for 26 reactors in France, 1 in Korea, 1 in
South Africa and 22 in China
Compound
ROBATEL PNT7TM
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These neutron materials are presented as a fine
mortar and can be used for any protection subject to
important thermal and mechanical constraints. It is,
preferably, implemented in metallic boxes, securely
sealed so that it retains its optimal characteristics. In
this case, the access to the inside of boxes at the
time of implementation should be as wide as
possible. In the absence of containment, it should
take into account the progressive loss of free water
by drying. Le mortier brut reproduit exactement l'état
de surface du moule. The crude mortar exactly
reproduces the surface of the mold. Its ease of
decontamination can be improved by applying a
surface coating. This material is classified M0.
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Chemical composition: aluminum, boron, calcium,
iron, hydrogen, oxygen, miscellaneous.
Density : 1,75 to 1,95 g/cm3.
Material approved by : CEA, AREVA, EDF, US
Department of Energy.
(Thermal Neutron
Protection no. 7)
and PNT3TM
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Over 1200 tons produced since 2000
Design, manufacture, shop and site assembly
► Lead
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shielded door IRSN
► Shielded
hatch installed at
Chernobyl
► Shielded
hatch Belgoprocess
Recently manufactured :
► Shielded
hatch (7 tons) for Chernobyl
► Motorized
shielding (50 tons) for the anti-neutron protection
of a cyclotron (Milan, Italy)
► CEA
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Saclay STELLA building
► Motorized
doors for BELGOPROCESS (Belgium)
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Stainless steel
and metal
working
MATERIALS
 Stainless steel: austenitic, superaustenitic,
refractory,
 Aluminum and alloys,
 Titanium and alloys,
 Nickel and alloys (Monel, Inconel, Hastelloy, …)
CODES CARRIED OUT
 CODAP, ASME, RCC-M, RCC-MR, RCC-MX
► Lid
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for Phénix (RCCM-R)
► 65
ton sleeves for nuclear fuel loading pools,
DCN
► 16T
forged device - CEA
Stainless steel
and metal
working
OPERATING MODES QUALIFICATION
 References : NF EN 288.3, ASME, RCCM…
 Number of reports : over 180
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stainless steel : 304L, 316L…
heavy steel : U45N, UB6, C22…
carbon steel : S235, A42 FP…
copper and alloys
borated stainless
MAIN WELDING PROCESSES
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► Fuel
► Decontamination
EDF
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room
storage basket
TIG
Arc welding
Semi-automatic, filled wire
Semi-automatic, MIG and pulsed MIG
Automatic, submerged arc
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Plastic
boilermaking
► Filtration
pilot
► Suction
DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF
COMPONENTS MADE OF :
 PVC
 Polycarbonate
 Perspex
 Polypropylene
 Polyethylene
 Polyester resin
 Corian
hood AREVA
► Ventilation
► Perspex
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box
gloves
► Corian
gloves box
► PVC
gloves box
► Polycarbonate
gloves box
shafts
Foundry
Machining of Lead
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3 ICPE lead foundry : Genas, Marcoule, La
Hague,
2 ICPE allowed to cast lead from the nuclear
industry
A capacity of several thousand tons per year,
Parts of a few kilograms to more than 20 tons,
An experience of more than 50 years in
techniques of lead implementations for the
nuclear industry.
of large size
► Shielding
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on site
► Brick
► Machined
slab
► Pipework
protection
Dismantling
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ROBATEL Industries offers its customers a
large range of dismantling services approved
by the CEA (CAEAR approval related to
studies, design and field work). Relying on its
significant experience feedback ROBATEL
Industries is in a position to display
unavoidable changes in studies, manufacture
and servicing.
Outline of
proposed
services
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Maintenance and refurbishment of hot cells
Annual maintenance contracts with AREVA
& CEA
Loading of casks in pools and unloading
Maintenance of casks :
regulatory maintenance of type B casks
 repair of casks on site and in our workshops
 tightness testing before transportation and assistance
to loading
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► Loading
casks (fuel rods)
on EDF plants
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► Intervention
crane with mobile protection
Tightness testing and maintenance of glove
boxes
Pipe testing
Supply and assembly of biological
protections
Installation of lock-chambers
Management and disposal of radioactive
waste
Supply of spare parts and assembly in
controlled area.