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BUSINESS OVERVIEW
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6.4 Operations
in connection with ELO, the DWCD contributes to the development of a
Commercial Waste Offering by providing support to the Customers, Strategy
and Innovation Department and to the business units. The DWCD proposes
industrial partnerships necessary to the implementation of the selected strategies,
has them approved as necessary, and leads their establishment.
The DWCD coordinates regional economic development for which AREVA is
responsible near waste disposal sites.
6.4.1.4.2.
AREVA Projects
Businesses
AREVA Projects concentrates expertise in nuclear fuel cycle engineering for
the facilities of the group and of external customers. Its services range from
engineering for operator support to full engineering, procurement, construction
and management (EPCM) assignments.
Its scope of intervention covers all of the group’s operations: mining, uranium
chemistry, enrichment, nuclear fuel, used fuel recycling, dismantling and waste
management. AREVA Projects also intends to contribute to the group’s growth
objectives through reasonable development in non-fuel-cycle nuclear and in non-
nuclear applications.
AREVA Projects draws on more than 40 years of operating experience in the
design and construction of plants which are unique in the world (la Hague, MELOX
and others), as well as on flagship projects conducted over the past 10 years in
northwestern and southeastern France: projects to renovate AREVA’s industrial
plants, waste retrieval and packaging at la Hague, the Georges Besse II enrichment
plants, and uranium chemistry facilities for Comurhex II Tricastin and Malvési.
AREVA Projects also has recognized skills in the management and execution of
international projects: the Rokkasho-Mura recycling plant in Japan built on the la
Hague model; the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) in the United States; and,
in the future, the recycling plant in China.
Operations and highlights
The year of 2016 was a pivotal one for the group’s engineering organization. On
July 1, 2016, as part of the AREVA group’s transformation, the group’s engineering
teams were reorganized, starting from a pooled structure (cross-business operating
department then called the Engineering and Projects Organization, E&P) into an
engineering organization for reactors and a second engineering organization for
the fuel cycle.
As part of that reorganization, the engineering teams whose work concerned the
fuel cycle facilities and plants were combined in the AREVA Projects Business Unit
of NewCo. The last stage in the structuring of fuel cycle engineering was completed
with the contribution of assets corresponding to the creation of a legal entity, AREVA
Projects SAS, at December 31, 2016.
AREVA Projects is the leading engineering organization for NewCo’s capital
projects. Its position is formalized with the group’s other business units by means
of an internal framework agreement for the period 2017 to 2021.
Human and industrial resources
The AREVA Projects Business Unit currently has teams in place at three main
engineering sites in France: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Ile-de-France Region),
Bagnols-sur-Cèze (Gard Department) and Equeurdreville (Manche Department).
AREVA Projects also has a unique research and development facility, the HRB
center at Beaumont, close to the AREVA la Hague site.
The AREVA Projects Business Unit is based in the United Kingdom via its subsidiary
Risk Management Consulting Ltd (RMC). Located mainly inWarrington (Cheshire,
northeastern England), Abingdon (near Oxford in the southeast) and Dounreay
(Scotland), the 90-person team specializes in safety analyses, waste studies and
engineering for dismantling for all British nuclear sites.
At December 31, 2016, the AREVA Projects Business Unit had a total of
1,452 employees.
The AREVA Projects Business Unit has major assets: the skills and commitment of
its employees; processes, technologies and provenmanagement skills for complex
projects; and operating experience harvested from the design and construction of
plants which are world firsts.
In addition to these assets, and to meet the need for external growth in a very tight
engineeringmarket, the business unit’s management has opted for a “pared down”
organization serving the customer’s exact needs by improving its competitiveness
and adapting its methods.
Relations with customers and suppliers
In addition to the AREVA group’s historical customers – operators of plants which
separate, treat, recycle and package nuclear materials – AREVA Project’s mission
is to diversify by developing a direct relationship with the group’s other external
customers and by promoting its design engineering know-how encompassing
issues related to construction, startup, operation and nuclear industry safety
requirements. In this regard, the AREVA Projects Business Unit works closely with
the AREVA NC teams to offer its international customers solutions specific to their
needs, based on technologies which have been proven in the group’s plants.
Market and competitive position
The AREVA group’s external market is highly competitive. Efforts to enhance
competitiveness and performance in connection with the group’s operational
excellence initiative have put AREVA Projects in a position to offer competitive,
differentiating services.
AREVA Projects is positioned in markets for engineering consulting; contracting
authority assistance; project management; design and engineering; startup; and
plant operating support. The principal French customers with which the AREVA
Projects Business Unit is in contact are the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et
aux énergies alternatives (CEA), the International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor project (ITER), the French National RadioactiveWasteManagement Agency
(Andra), and EDF.
Internationally, the AREVA Projects Business Unit is present in the United Kingdom,
Japan and China, in partnership with NewCo businesses such as the Recycling
business, or directly with the customers, depending on their requirements.
AREVA Projects works on the design and construction of new facilities, on the
renovation of existing facilities, and on the design of units for waste retrieval and
packaging and for nuclear materials treatment and recycling.
Its teams are also prospecting in non-nuclear fields close to its reference businesses,
including facilities using complex processes or operating in an environment
presenting risk.
Outlook and development goals
In an environment where the historical markets for fuel cycle engineering are
undergoing profound change due to a number of factors, AREVA Projects will
seek growth in France, in Europe and of course in Asia, where engineering teams
are actively working with teams from the Recycling business to finalize negotiations
for a recycling plant in China and two vitrification facilities.
Negotiations for the recycling plant in China met a major milestone with the
finalization of the application for approval which CNNCmust submit to its regulatory
authorities. Concerning the vitrification facilities, competitive dialogue was carried
out in 2016, and AREVA is ready to submit its offer as soon as the final specifications
have been received from CNNC in order to finalize negotiations.
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