GDES-T4S has developed a new bespoke version of its RESHAND robotic arm for foreign material exclusion both in and outside the pool.

The RESHAND model that GDES-T4S has delivered to the Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant is a new version capable of also operating outside the water, for handling radioactive waste and moving materials in areas of difficult access or with risk of radiation and contamination, such as a solid waste interim storage facility.

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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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