Acceptance of the Herbin Inspection System.

January 2012

The acceptance of the inspection system installed at the Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre factory in the Chinese city of Harbin has been successfully completed.  This system uses both transmission and pulse-echo techniques to inspect different composite components, as a result of which everything is ready for entry into production.

June 2011

Tecnatom will develop two new Control Rooms in China

Tecnatom has signed a contract for the development of the Control Rooms for the first two reactors at the Chinese Changjiang plant. 

May 2011

New SIROCO-RABIT robot control system.

With most aeronautical components inspection systems it is necessary to perform movements with complex trajectories, synchronising, combining and coordinating the positioning of the headers housing the ultrasonic probes.

April, 2011

Incorporation of a resident Tecnatom engineer at EPRI.

On April 1st 2011, our engineer Xavier Xardí joined the EPRI “Materials Reliability Program” project in Palo Alto, California, as a “Resident Researcher. As is already known, in December 2004 Tecnatom and UNESA signed an Agreement, subsequently extended in 2007, for our company to act as a technology Center of Reference (CoR) in different areas of R&D, among them inspection techniques, materials fatigue, maintenance, radiological protection, instrumentation and control, assets management, severe accidents, human factors and advanced reactors.

March, 2010

Tecnatom offers a new system for the ultrasonic and visual inspection of PWR plant vessel nozzles, which will shortly be used during the 21st refuelling outage at Ascó NPP group 1

The ultrasonic inspection of the dissimilar metal nozzle – safe end and safe end – primary circuit piping welds in pressurised water reactors (PWR) is carried out within the framework of application of guideline MRP-139, issued by EPRI, relating to the establishment of new recommendations regarding the surveillance of areas of Inconel 82/182 existing in the primary circuit.

February, 2010

Start-up of the new Human Factors Simulator and Workshop Classes at the Tecnatom Training Centre in Tarragona

The new Tecnatom Training Centre facilities in Tarragona were inaugurated on January 25th last.
The new facilities, designed to improve the processes for the training and qualification of the personnel of ANAV (Ascó and Vandellós Nuclear Association) are made up of the following areas:
 

January, 2010

Authorisation of the Tecnatom Internal Dosimetry Service for the performance of measurements by bioelimination

In December 2010, the Tecnatom Internal Dosimetry Service was authorised by the Nuclear Safety Council to perform measurements by means of bioelimination techniques, this complementing the Authorisation obtained in 1988 for the performance of direct Whole Body Counter measurements.

December, 2010

Tecnatom has completed the first phase of the research project CAST (Comparative Assessment of Training Programmes focussing on Safety) within the Seventh European Framework Programme.

From October 25th to 28th, the first phase of testing and training on the Control of Stress through Biofeedback, corresponding to the research project CAST (Comparative Assessment of Training Programmes focussing on Safety) included in the Seventh European Framework Programme, took place at Tecnatom.

November, 2010

New mobile internal personal dosimetry service unit

Since October 1988, the year in which the Internal Personal Dosimetry Service (IPDS) was officially authorised by the Nuclear Safety Council, its Mobile Unit I, equipped with a Quicky III type Whole Body Counter (WBC), has been servicing the Spanish Nuclear Power Plants without interruption during their refuelling outages, as well as the CSN during emergency situations and drills. During 2010, the Mobile Unit has been replaced with a more modern vehicle equipped with new elements.

October, 2010

New simulation tools environment

The development of a new simulation tools environment has recently been concluded. This development guarantees the technological independence of Tecnatom when addressing new simulation projects, either in relation to- training simulators or to simulation tools for engineering support.