Babcock Noell Expertise in Demand in Chernobyl
Würzburg, 10. Aug. 2009
On behalf of the American company HOLTEC, Babcock Noell (BNG) is working with Ukrainian companies on drawing up plans for a “hot cell” for an already partly installed system. The cell is required for preparing and packing spent fuel rods for interim storage purposes (Interim Storage Facility – ISF 2 Project) from the decommissioned reactor blocks in Chernobyl.
The special feature of a “hot cell”, which is designed as a gas-tight and thickly shielded room, is its ability to process radioactive substances with the help of remote-controlled manipulators using lead-glass windows and camera systems. In the past Babcock Noell has successfully planned and completed several projects of this type.
In view of the good collaboration with BNG to date for this project, which is extremely important to the Chernobyl power plant, representatives of Babcock Noell GmbH led by Managing Director Dr. Ronald Hepper were welcomed to the latest project meeting by the General Director of the Chernobyl Power Plant, Igor Gramotkin (see photograph).
Work is being planned and carried out at Chernobyl with international finance and support, the objective being to improve the radiological and ecological situation at the site. The best known project at the current time is the new concrete safety dome which will cover the previous safety dome over the destroyed Block 4 and will further improve the retention of the radioactive materials inside..
About Babcock Noell GmbH:
Babcock Noell is a global player in the areas of nuclear service, nuclear technology, magnetic systems, and environmental engineering and has been very successful in leveraging the experience it has acquired in the last four decades. The company operates as part of the Bilfinger Berger AG group through Bilfinger Berger Power Services GmbH in Oberhausen.
With a staff of 300, most of which are qualified engineers, core competencies range from development, planning, delivery, and commissioning to on-site operation of plants and facilities.
Particularly noteworthy and technologically challenging projects include delivery of the containment liner and other complex components for the new OL 3 nuclear power station in Finland, construction of the pilot conditioning plant for final storage of spent fuel elements in Gorleben, engineering of superconducting magnets for the international research center in Geneva and of superconducting coils for the Max Planck Institute's nuclear fusion reactor experiment (Wendelstein 7 X) in Garching and Greifswald, and delivery of a flue gas desulfurization plant for the world's first pilot installation with CO2 extractor and form the basis for future growth.
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