CSN hires GDES to provide specialized training in radiological emergencies

Since 2009 GDES imparts this training in collaboration with the Spanish National School of Civil Protection.

GDES Technical Radiological Protection Unit coordinates again this course, aimed at those working first in situations of radiological emergencies. We talk about the staff of Civil Protection, National Police, Military Emergency Unit or Guardia Civil. UTPR team members of GD Energy Services Operations SAU coordinate and teach this course.

The course, funded and technically supervised by the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN), and organized in collaboration with the National School of Civil Protection (ENPC). It is aimed at the implementation of the Basic Directive on Civil Protection Planning against radiation hazards (DBRR ) which objective being that the personnel involved in the planning or management of radiological emergencies or in the training of participants in the response criteria and knowledge needed to manage the emergency in an appropriate manner.

GDES accumulates 7 years of teaching in Radiological Emergency at the request of CSN. With this new course reiterates its commitment to professional training and scientific disclosure.

GD Energy Services acquires 60% of the nuclear-industrial division of the French Company Erba

GD Energy Services acquires 60% of the nuclear-industrial division of the French Company Erba

  • GDES Erba has been awarded a 40-million-euro project in association with Onet Technologies.
  • Erba Nuclear-Industrial division has revenues of 3 million euros a year.

GD Energy Services (GDES), Spanish group with international expertise in surface treatment, industrial maintenance, decommissioning of nuclear and radioactive facilities, construction and maintenance of power grids, warehouse logistic management, services to renewable energy and emergencies, has signed a strategic alliance with the French company Erba, specialised in industrial painting and anticorrosion services, that includes the acquisition of 60% of its nuclear and industrial division. With this investment, GD Energy Services pretends “to enlarge our business in France, by having a platform that allows growth in surface treatment services with stable projects and multiannual contracts” declares GDES’ CEO, Hector Dominguis.

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New award in Italy for the dismantling of Trino Nuclear Power Plant

The GDES presence in Italy continues to grow with the awarding (in consortium with Equipos Nucleares S.A,) of dismantling of the primary circuit of Trino Nuclear Power Plant, in the north of the country.

Trino NPP, which belongs to SOGIN (Italian state utility), is a four-loop, 260 MW, light water modified and cooled PWR reactor, a Westinghouse design with certain similarities to the José Cabrera facility.

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