Fitness-for-Service Assessment
A1400
Challenging market conditions require plant operation as much as possible. However, unexpected non-acceptable Non-destructive Testing (NDT) indications may threaten plant systems to be stopped, while it can be uncertain if sufficient resources and materials are available for a timely restart. Framatome’s ad-hoc and 24/7 available Fitness-for-Service assessments support plant operators in case of acutely occurring problems in their production facilities. This service can prevent a plant systems from an unnecessarily long shutdown.
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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.
Licensing & commissioning
Getting connected to the grid requires a large amount of tests and a final approval of the Safety Authorities; experienced and skilled partners ease the process. Framatome supports you in the licensing and commissioning phases, by proposing expertise for training, tests, qualification, inspection, operating technical specifications, documentation, licensing studies, regulatory bodies interface and more. Benefit from Framatome’s unique experience with safety authorities worldwide for all designs of reactors.
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.
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.