An extensive range of products and services

Reactor pressure vessel inspection, Gundremmingen nuclear power plant

AREVA offers its electric utility customers solution than enable them to improve the availability and performance of their power plants and extend their lifetime, while upholding the highest safety standards. Activities are mainly carried out during power plant outage periods, called unit outages, which take place every 12, 18 or 24 months depending on the operation mode of the reactor.

The main objective for Nuclear Services, led by the Installed Base business unit, is to help the group’s customers understand the demands of an energy market that is becoming increasingly competitive and deregulated. It offers customers a comprehensive range of nuclear services responding to their expectations:

Reducing operation and maintenance costs
Improving safety and performance at the same time
Extending the lifetime of customers’ facilities
Reducing the exposure of workers to radiation

These service unit benefits from the group’s unrivaled experience:

Design and construction of nearly 100 reactors worldwide
A decades-long history of implementation and renovation of an extensive range of nuclear services
Supply of nuclear fuel to over 120 power plants

The most comprehensive range of products and services in the world

AREVA possesses the most comprehensive range of products, services and technologies in the world. Based on the most recent innovative technologies, it covers the inspection, repair and servicing of all types of reactors (PWR, BWR, VVER, CANDU):

Unit outage services: recurring maintenance activities
Non-destructive examinations: regulatory inspections of safety-related equipment
Servicing of primary components, repairs, maintenance and replacement of large components in the nuclear steam supply system

Servicing of reactors' electrical systems and instrumentation and control
Decontamination and chemical cleaning: in order to reduce exposure to radiation during maintenance and repairs
Engineering and improvement services: benefiting from the skills and experience of the Plants business unit in design and construction
Instrumentation and diagnostics: to better understand the state of the reactor
Supply of spare parts
Certain operations relating to the dismantling of equipment from the reactor coolant system (cutout and removal of components, cleaning, etc.), including waste management
Off-site maintenance of contaminated components in hot workshop