Engineering services: refueling Tooling Development and automation to reduce refueling time – For PWR reactors

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Framatome develops tools for Operability Check-Out and Refurbishment: Westinghouse- Designed Units, CE-Designed Units, B&W-Designed Units. We offers a unique solution for improving tooling and equipment reliability. Through its Tool Stewardship Program, Framatome assumes responsibility for the maintenance, storage, and preparation of your site’s tools — either entirely at your site or by shipping them to our Outage Equipment Support Centers.

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Fuel services & solutions

Plant operators need fuel after-sales services to achieve the greatest value from the core. Framatome’s service engineers support you when taking delivery of fuels and during reloading activities, after stringent quality inspections. We also offer consultation and support for flexible fuel cycle solutions, customer training and the development of special tools for fuel inspection and repair, such as mast-sipping.

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Outage services

You can prevent risk of technical issues causing delays and drift of outage costs by relying on experienced teams with a wealth of expertise. Framatome’s highly-skilled teams deploy proven, innovative technologies and solutions backed by service-proven knowledge of utilities’ objectives for reactor maintenance, inspections, fuel reloading operations, and outage management optimization. Our solutions ensure our customers avoid costly outages and outage extensions.

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