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Strachan & Henshaw  Ltd

Maintaining a core resource of over 500 qualified engineering staff and industry standard modeling, analysis and integrated manufacturing and test facilities, Strachan & Henshaw (S&H) has been a principal equipment supplier to the UK nuclear industry for over fifty years, and maintain a site presence at over a third of the UK’s nuclear facilities, maintaining our own, and other contractors’ equipment on a daily basis.

S&H has extensive resources committed to definition, assessment, design and delivery of high integrity engineering handling equipment that demands consideration of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software, hydraulic, pneumatic systems and human factors. Working within integrated project teams, our engineering specialists contribute to the design and manufacture process on a concurrent basis, ensuring we provide the most appropriate solution for our clients.

S&H is working as part of the BFR Alliance alongside ENTECH, our joint venture company with SGN of France, who maintain strong ties with the local community. In recent years S&H has completed a wide range of projects for the domestic and international nuclear industries, including process solutions for BNFL, Station Support and equipment upgrade for Magnox and British Energy, and contaminated waste handling solutions for nuclear facilities across the UK.

Through our participation in the BFR Alliance, S&H is completing its 40 year commitment to the Dounreay area, and is proud to be a part of UKAEA’s commitment to return Dounreay to a green-field site.

S&H is a member of the Weir Group of companies, working together to create engineering solutions which help our customers deliver processes important to society.

Tel. 0117 975 2972  Email tom.abba@sandh-ltd.com Website www.sandh-ltd.com

Atkins

Atkins is one of the world’s leading providers of professional, technology-based consultancy and support services, with offices in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas. Our portfolio of skills embraces engineering consultancy, design, management consultancy, IT, facilities management, environmental services, project finance, project services, outsourcing and property services. We work with public and private sector clients in a range of markets, including nuclear, power, rail, roads, telecoms, aviation, water, process, health and defence.

Atkins in Caithness
Atkins is a member of the recently announced UKAEA assembled Alliance dealing with one of the major projects in the decommissioning of the Dounreay Fast Reactor, the Breeder Fuel Removal Alliance. This is a multi-disciplinary, multi-million pound project extending over several years.

Atkins recent major presence on Dounreay began in 1996 with the establishment of the Dounreay Management Support Contract.  At its peak over 70 Atkins staff were based on site covering all aspects of site work from specialist Safety and Environmental Management, to Project Engineers and Supervisors involved in the day to day management of site projects. Since the end of the MSC contract, Atkins have maintained a presence of over 30 staff at Dounreay, including 15+ Project Planning staff from Atkins Faithful & Gould, along with visiting teams  in sizes as required to undertake specific tasks on behalf of the client.  These have ranged from Engineering Substantiation to calculations on wind dispersion of aerial discharges; and from Availability, Reliability and Maintainability (ARM) studies to Management Consulting on Human Resource Factors on site.

In keeping with our commitment to the area, Atkins is pursuing the establishment of a local office in Thurso.  Atkins are also actively involved with the local community, and in the last few years have assisted by funding the provision of the palliative care room at Caithness General Hospital in Wick, and have been one of the principal sponsors for the recently resurrected Caithness Civic Awards Scheme.

Another key area where Atkins has considerable knowledge and experience is in the planning history in Caithness, and in particular to Dounreay. This experience includes reporting to the Council on planning submissions, and explaining complicated issues in terms that lay members are able to recognise and understand.

Other recent work in Caithness, for Highland Council and CASE, has included project management of the Wick Pulteneytown Heritage scheme, working closely with local councillors and officials; assisting with the preparation of the Caithness economic strategy; and advice to the Highlands and Islands Strategic Transport Partnership on the transportation strategy for the north.

Atkins in Scotland
Atkins operate from 8 other offices in Scotland – in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, East Kilbride, Falkirk, Glasgow, Grangemouth, Inverness and Stornoway, providing a full range of consultancy services to our many clients. 

 Atkins has operated in the north of Scotland for some 20 years and, amongst other activities, have taken over the business and staff of the Common Services Agency to provide architectural and building maintenance services to the government (Health Service and Government offices). Similar activities are undertaken from the other office bases in Scotland.

The Aberdeen office is one of the other main offices in the North of Scotland, with a smaller subsidiary office in Inverness and a combined staff of 30 between the two offices. This office forms part of the Design, Environment and Engineering division of Atkins.

The main focus of work from the Aberdeen and Inverness offices involves architectural design for a wide spectrum of clients in the north, in particular Health and public services and works for major private development companies.

Atkins Press Office contact:  Andrew Wills   tel: 01372 752897, e-mail: andrew.wills@atkinsglobal.com

Framatome ANP
Nuclear industry – No. 1 in the world

In January 2001, the Framatome Group and Siemens Power Generation created Framatome ANP, which combines their nuclear businesses. Framatome ANP is an Areva and Siemens company. AREVA has a 66% shares and Siemens 34%.

 Framatome ANP has 13,000 employees in every continent and its revenues amount to more than 2,6 billion Euro. It is the No.1 in the world for nuclear plant construction projects, fuel manufacturing and services.

The structure of Framatome ANP combines management by business group, at worldwide level, with management at regional level, in France (including support of UK), Germany and the United States, thus ensuring that our resources are close to the customers.

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Over the last 30 years, Framatome ANP has designed and built more nuclear plants than any other company, 90 reactors in 11
 countries. It has undertaken major new plant construction projects at Daya Bay and Ling Ao in China, which involve major

localization programs and technology transfers.

Framatome ANP is modernizing plants in Central and Eastern Europe (VVER), by bringing them into line with Western European safety standards, and upgrading plants in Europe, America and Asia.

The nuclear services business group covers all services after the delivery of a new nuclear plant: monitoring installation, upgrading, repairing and maintaining components and instrumentation and control systems. It is also in charge of dismantling operations, waste management and dry spent fuel storage for shutdown nuclear plants, research reactors and laboratories.

 Framatome ANP has the largest capacity in the world for manufacturing nuclear plant equipment and components. In its factories in France, it has designed and manufactured 75 reactor vessels and closure heads, 266 steam generators, 67 pressurizers, 220 reactor coolant sets, 4 500 control rod assemblies and in-core instrumentation systems for nuclear plants in Europe, South Africa, the United States and Asia.

Corporate Communications      Anne Wallet  Tel.: +33 147 96 40 34    E-Mail: annie.wallet@framatome-anp.com
www.framatome-anp.com

SGN AT DOUNREAY

The SGN company (wholly owned subsidiary of COGEMA (AREVA Group)) was founded in 1952 for the design and construction of the first nuclear fuel cycle facilities in France. Since then, SGN has become a leading engineering company worldwide in the nuclear field, with extensive expertise in spent fuel reprocessing, spent fuel and radioactive waste management, nuclear facilities decontamination and dismantling, and nuclear measurements.

SGN's engineers and technicians bring a variety of skills and expertise to all of SGN's activities:

SGN is ISO 9001 and CEFRI certified.

In UK, SGN is represented ENTECH (European Nuclear Technologies, a Joint Venture Company with Strachan and Henshaw Limited) with offices in Bristol, Aldermaston and Dounreay. Dounreay office is occupied by up to 10 employees.

A part from the BFR project, SGN is currently performing for UKAEA Dounreay a Conceptual Design Study on vitrification of waste using the cold crucible technology.