Innovate to design a short lifecycle building
An innovative solution adapted to the lifecycle of your waste retrieval operations, significantly reducing costs.
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Waste retrieval buildings are very often constrained by the existing environment. This means it is necessary to:
- Build a new nuclear facility relying on technical and methodological innovations,
- Integrate a lean objective, fulfilling all the requirements in terms of safety and environmental protection; this is possible for legacy facilities.
The solution is to build a lightweight “fabric structure” for the second containment barrier, instead of using heavy traditional construction. This makes it possible to:
- design a building suited to the job site time,
- minimize the building time,
- decrease building cost
- decrease final cost of the project after final dismantling operations,
- Second containment barrier realized by a lightweight building
- Metal structure specifically designed and validated from conventional applications
- Safe design that can be adapted to any waste retrieval project
- Innovative approach suited to the economic conditions under which dismantling projects must be carried out
- Solution already validated and approved by the French Safety Authority
- Targeting the best achievable solutions, technically and economically
- Expertise in nuclear safety and regulations for workers and environment
- Unique experience in building nuclear facilities for dismantling operations
- Such a structure already built for waste treatment and conditioning at La Hague plant (treatment and conditioning of legacy waste from the past reprocessing of fuel from France's graphite-moderated gas cooled reactors).
- Design a lightweight building strictly in line with project needs
- Minimize the construction time compared to a heavy traditional building
- Optimize the construction costs with a “just necessary” design of a lightweight building
- Reduce the dismantling cost at the end of the operation
- Keep a high level of safety and environmental protection
