New decontamination services contract for EDF in France

EDF-UTO (unité technique opérationnelle) has awarded the consortium formed by NUVIA and GDES a new contract for decontamination services during refuelling outages covering all French nuclear power plants for the next eight years. This wide-ranging contract will include site-specific surveys and solutions for the decontamination of areas with a high risk of exposure to radiation (“décontamination lourde”). GDES will be responsible, specifically, for underwater decontamination of the floor and walls of the reactor pool. For this purpose, GDES will complement the decontamination tasks carried out by NUVIA by providing EDF with DEMOS underwater decontamination and LD9 submersible filtration equipment.

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In a first for the company, GDES takes part in the decommissioning of a 600 MW nuclear reactor in Sweden

GDES, as subcontractor to Uniper, successfully completes post-segmentation work on the Barsebäck reactor pressure vessel.

The Valencia-based business group GDES, was awarded a contract by Uniper Anlagenservice GmbH to support the decommissioning of the Barsebäck and Oskarshamn nuclear power plants in Sweden and has successfully completed the complex segmentation work on the drywell head and the reactor pressure vessel head and vessel post-segmentation at the Barsebäck-1 nuclear power plant in Sweden, the first of four RPVs to be dismantled.

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