On June 28th last, Tecnatom held an event to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the company’s foundation in 1957 with its partners and clients. For sixty years our company has been providing innovative high added value solutions to a multitude of clients across the world, and we have wanted to share with them the satisfaction … Read more
Horizon Nuclear Power has today announced a partnership with Tecnatom, a global nuclear training services provider, as it looks to grow the future operational workforce for its lead project Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey, North Wales. Tecnatom which provides training services to a range of nuclear power stations around the world, will lead a training support … Read more
The Conference on Equipment Technology, COTEQ 2017, a meeting sponsored by the Brazilian Non-Destructive Testing and Inspection Association (ABENDI), was held in Río de Janeiro (Brazil) from 15th to 18th May last. The present edition of the conference, considered the largest in Latin America in its field, included the participation of the Tecnatom Group via … Read more
The 10th International Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies Congress (NPIC&HMIT 2017) was held during the month of June in San Francisco. Tecnatom participated actively in this event, with ten papers on different issues and a commercial stand in the exhibition area. As a result of the new concept “Delivering the … Read more
Tecnatom has received a visit from a group of representatives of the Finnish company Fennovoima Oy, accompanied by the companies RAOS Project (Finland/Russia), RUSATOM SERVICE (Russia) and ROSATOM-CICE&T (Russia). Fennovoima Oy is the owner of the Finnish Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power plant, where a Russian technology reactor, model AES-2006, a 1.200MW VVER, is to be installed. … Read more
Eletronuclear, the company that operates the Angra 1 nuclear power plant (Brazil), has awarded our subsidiary Tecnatom do Brasil a contract for the supply of butterfly valves to this Brazilian facility. This contract contemplates the supply of manual, 20-inch safety-related butterfly valves (safety class III) for the plant’s services water system, which are to be … Read more
As part of the process of diversification and internationalisation in which Tecnatom has been involved in recent years, the company has just created the firm FarField NDT, Inc., a Joint Venture between Tecnatom and the US company Innerspec Technologies. Innerspec is a world leader in the manufacturing and development of instrumentation and applications for non-destructive … Read more
Tecnatom has formed an alliance with AMEC Foster Wheeler, Element Materials Technology and TUV Rheinland to offer Equipment Qualification (EQ) and Materials Qualification (MQ) services for nuclear sites in the UK and Europe. Together the four companies, which individually already support many power plants and other nuclear licensed sites around the world, have formed the … Read more
Tecnatom has developed a new robot-operated system, ROBBIN (Remotely Operated Baffle Bolts Inspection), for the volumetric and visual inspection of the internals of PWR reactor vessels, as well as the baffle bolts. This system consists of an underwater vehicle controlled from the surface and equipped with the technological developments necessary to perform measurements by means … Read more
Tecnatom has participated in the China International Exhibition on Nuclear Power Industry (CIENPI) congress along with the other companies forming the Spanish Nuclear Group for Cooperation (SNGC). Participation in this international event, which this year has been held in Beijing, has allowed Tecnatom to showcase its capabilities and strengthen the commercial relations with the Asian … Read more
El proyecto ITER es uno de los proyectos de inversión más grandes del mundo, en el que colaboran más de 35 países con el objetivo de demostrar la viabilidad de la fusión nuclear como fuente de energía inagotable. Para ello se está construyendo uno de los dispositivos de fusión por confinamiento magnético más grandes del mundo, en el que se probarán tecnologías, materiales y regímenes físicos integrados necesarios para la producción de electricidad basada en la fusión.
Tecnatom forma parte del proyecto aportando la creación de la plataforma de simulación de lo que será el simulador de la sala de control de ITER, la integración de modelos existentes desarrollados por distintos suministradores, la integración del sistema de control CODAC, el desarrollo de modelos adicionales, así como el mantenimiento y la formación en la plataforma.
