25.11.2009 - Video showing the Olkiluoto-Dome lifting online now

Würzburg, Olkiluoto, 25. Sept. 2009

On Sunday, September 6, this year, Babcock Noell GmbH (BNG) completed a remarkable milestone with the construction of the Olkiluoto 3 power station in Finland: After the most spectacular transportation in the history of the BNG company in just four days across the Baltic Sea, the Würzburg-based specialists lifted the roof, or the so-called dome for the containment liner, into place in the early hours of Sunday morning, making it the last part on the containment liner. See also Press Release of September 10. 2009.

A video now shows this impressing event.

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.

For further Information please contact:
Babcock Noell GmbH
Geschäftsführung
Alfred-Nobel-Str. 20
97080 Würzburg
Telefon: +49 931 9030
Fax: +49 931 9036000
Email: info@babcocknoell.de
Web: www.babcocknoell.de


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