Technical center activities: Materials Expertise

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Framatome Technical Center offers state of the art materials and welding laboratories. We provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary solutions that also can be provided on-site. Our materials and welding competences are based on decades of profound laboratory and field experience enabling us to provide expert support in a quick and reliable manner. We bridge the gap from R&D to actual industrial application.

Related solutions

Equipment status & spare parts

Framatome develops innovative processes, cost-effective solutions, and complete services from the simple-and-basic to the most challenging scenarios. These include large components such as steam generators, reactor coolant pumps, control rod drive mechanisms and also obsolescence solution management, and our Nuclear Parts Centers. Framatome proposes the best products, services and solutions to receive safe, world-class project performance, total cost certainty, and a partner committed to excellence for all of your component repair and replacement projects.

aging asset management control rods corrosion deposit/fouling/cleaning forging/casting inspection/nde main component maintenance obsolescence qualification/testing RCP repair replacement RPV spare part steam generators welding

Long-term operations

In order to optimize your asset, you can decide to run your plant beyond its designated lifetime. Safety being a priority this decision is driven by the need for low carbon and competitive energy. Framatome works closely with you on your plant’s long-term operations strategy, covering license renewal, aging and asset management, modernization and upgrades, and other long-term challenges.

aging asset management H2 & energy storage license renewal modernization/upgrade training

Other critical industries

With 50+ years of experience in the nuclear industry, we have developed highly skilled expertise recognized worldwide. Our expertise in alloys welding, water chemistry, corrosion, nuclear medicine or metallurgy, high performing computation such as CFD, is applicable in non-nuclear activities. Whether your business is in research activities, laboratories, new technologies, medical, or any other out-of-nuclear industry, benefit from our 3000 experts worldwide committed to your performance and success.

aging component supply corrosion cybersecurity electrical/I&C systems engineering services H2 & energy storage inspection/nde leak management medical/isotopes qualification/testing risk analysis safety system waste management welding