Under the slogan “Nuclear, a Smart Choice”, the 44th Annual Meeting of the SNE (Spanish Nuclear Society) was held at the Ávila Lienzo Norte Conference and Exhibition Centre. The event was a meeting point for industry professionals and companies where current issues for the nuclear business were addressed and highly technical papers, presentations and projects were presented. It brought together more than 630 professionals and played host to 300 technical presentations that covered thematic areas such as engineering and innovation, quality and regulation, maintenance, operation, waste management, decommissioning, radiation protection, design and behaviour of structures, materials, training and communication, among others.

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For the first time in Europe, Spain has hosted the NEA mentoring workshop, jointly organised with WiN Spain: Mentoring a Future Generation of Female Leaders in Science and Engineering.

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GDES congratulated for inner and outer containment work (project Extrados).

GDES, together with the rest of the companies that have intervened, has been congratulated by Senior Management at EDF Flamanville 1 & 2 power plant for their work on the inner and outer containment structures. During the refuelling outage at Flamanville 1 our client, EDF, carried out ten-year containment resistance and leak-tightness tests under the supervision of the French Nuclear Safety Authority.  The results of these tests will serve as a final validation of the coating system developed by our company (SIKAWRAP 230C SYSTEM).

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GDES France has been awarded a contract for electromechanical decommissioning of hot cell facility (Cellule MEC) at the Bugey 1 Nuclear Power Plant. The contract, awarded by EDF, was secured through a joint venture with D&S. The project was launched on 29 June and the dismantling operations are scheduled to run from the last quarter of 2018 to the first quarter of 2019.

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