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The Surface Treatment Business Unit, headed by Iván Maqueda, has received a safety award from our client EDF for the excellent results in the work carried out during outage 1VD23 at the Nogent Nuclear Power Plant.

The project, carried out between 13 May and 6 June 2019, was commissioned by EDF as a solution to the erosion and corrosion of drain nozzles in two MSRs.

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GDES France was engaged in 2018 to eliminate deposits from the Residual Heat Removal (RHR) System exchangers of the Primary Circuit cooling system at the BLAYAIS Nuclear Power Plant – Unit 2. The work, executed in March 2019, was a crucial milestone for GDES France. Not only because of the pioneering nature of this service, but also because it introduces GDES France to EDF as a service provider for works in controlled areas. The goal of this project was to develop and certify a process that will remove iron oxide and silicon fouling from the visible parts of the tube plate.

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GDES has secured a position on the multi-million pound framework to provide decommissioning services to Dounreay Site Restoration Limited.

GDES Limited, the wholly-owned UK subsidiary of GDES Group, has won a place as part of the Dounreay Wood Alliance (DWA) on the multimillion-pound framework contract to provide decommissioning solutions to Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) at Dounreay in Scotland.

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GDES, through temporary consortium UTE Monlain, has successfully dismantled the ventilation stack of the José Cabrera nuclear power plant (better known as “Zorita”).

The José Cabrera nuclear power plant will enter the final stage of decommissioning once radiological dismantling and building decontamination have been completed. The final stage will be a conventional demolition of the facility and building structures (including the reactor building).

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