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6.4 Operations
Outlook and development goals
The Technical and Engineering Department was created on July 1, 2016 with
teams from the Products and Technologies Business Unit and from the Engineering
and Projects Organization. This entity’s mission is to support the operations of
AREVA NP by offering its skills, making its facilities available, and supplying
reliable and effective services. Its efficient solutions support nuclear power plant
operators confronted with a difficult financial environment. Its objective is to deliver
high performance and high added-value services, and to meet its commitments,
especially in terms of quality, schedule and budget.
6.4.2.1.6.
Instrumentation and Control
Businesses
The Instrumentation and Control Business Unit is responsible for operations in
AREVA NP’s core instrumentation and control business: safety instrumentation and
control systems, nuclear instrumentation, autonomous systems designed to meet
strengthened safety requirements, simulation tools, cybersecurity of instrumentation
and control, and technical management of instrumentation and control.
The main activities of the business unit are to:
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develop proposals for upgrade projects or new construction for internal and
external customers;
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carry out projects covering the entire specification development cycle at the
highest level, from the development of software and hardware to the validation
of complete configurations on platforms;
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take responsibility or provide support for on-site installation and testing operations
and for customer training;
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provide after-sales services for the equipment delivered.
Human and industrial resources
The teams of the Instrumentation and Control Business Unit are located in France,
Germany, the United States, Slovakia and China.
The business unit has centers for engineering and project execution as well as
research and development capabilities and production centers for operations
related to specific, critical products in the core business: nuclear instrumentation
and safety instrumentation and control.
Through one of its French subsidiaries, the business unit also has the ability to offer
high-performance simulation tools, software and hardware.
Operations and highlights
The Instrumentation and Control Business Unit is involved in all of AREVA NP’s
projects with an instrumentation and control component.
FRANCE
The leading projects are:
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programs to upgrade or renovate EDF’s installed nuclear fleet:
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the m2C program (twenty 1,300 MWe units) successfully deployed at the
Paluel 1 and Catenom 1 reactors. The startup of other installations will occur
at each unit outage,
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the E2C program (thirty-two 900 MWe units), in the design phase;
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the Flamanville 3 EPR (“FA3”), for which the instrumentation and control
equipment is installed at the site and undergoing testing.
FINLAND
The Instrumentation and Control Business Unit delivered all of the safety
instrumentation and control equipment as well as the operating instrumentation
and control equipment to the site of the Olkiluoto EPR project (“OL3”), in strict
compliance with the schedule set in September 2013, after receiving approval from
the customer TVO and the Finnish safety authority STUK.
CHINA
The main projects are those of the Taishan 1 & 2 EPR units, for which most of the
activity shifted to the site; the DCS Tianwan 3 & 4 project; and the DCS Fuqing
units 5 & 6 project.
The business unit also has several nuclear instrumentation projects in parallel.
ENGLAND
The business unit is involved in the Hinkley Point EPR project (“HPC”), for which it
is in charge of executing and supplying the operating and safety instrumentation
and control systems of the power plant.
GERMANY
The German teams of the Instrumentation and Control Business Unit, armed with
their experience with a number of reactor models, carry out a large number of
upgrade projects in Europe.
Outlook and development goals
To increase its business volume, the Instrumentation and Control Business Unit
is pursuing a strategy of development outside of its traditional domestic markets
(France, Germany and the United States). In particular, it is targeting China and the
international market for VVER reactors.
In its traditional markets, the Instrumentation and Control Business Unit’s
development strategy aims to provide a broader service to its customers.
Consistent with its development strategy, the business unit is pursuing efforts to
streamline and expand its product catalogue; boost productivity by perfecting its
work methods in engineering and project management; and optimize its industrial
base and partnerships. By enhancing its competitiveness and the key differentiators
of its instrumentation and control offer, it will strengthen itsmarket share and position.
Maintaining the critical skills and experience of the employees of the Instrumentation
and Control Business Unit is a major objective, for they add considerable value
for the customer over the long term and are key differentiators of AREVA’s offer.
6.4.3.
OTHER OPERATIONS
The other operations are held for sale or remain within the AREVA SA consolidation
scope until they are sold or completed. Two main areas of activity are concerned:
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the Propulsion and Research Reactors business led by AREVA TA, which is
held for sale;
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the Renewable Energies operations (Bioenergies, Energy Storage, Wind Energy
and Solar Energy), which are either held for sale or discontinued, in line with
the group’s refocusing on operations related to the fuel cycle and its withdrawal
from renewable operations.
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