WNE AWARDS 2021 | WNE Awards 2021
WNE congratulates 21 nominees that have been shortlisted for the WNE Awards 2021. Join the awards ceremony on Tuesday 30 November at 5pm to hear the winners announced
THE WNE AWARDS 2021 attracted 137 high quality entrant projects, which were submitted by 84 exhibiting companies. Entries were assessed in four categories under expert
chairs as below and 21 companies have been selected to be shortlisted.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, chaired by Patrick Landais, High Commissioner for Atomic Energy at CEA. Bertin Technologies. Developed with the French Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the 3He-free SaphyGATE GN is a radiation portal monitor for gamma- neutron detection & discrimination, able to automatically and non-invasively spot Special Nuclear Materials using plastic scintillation detectors only. It is ideal for access control of critical sites. Framatome. QuarTec is an innovative coating technology protecting power plant assets exposed to contaminants, corrosion and aquatic growth. It reduces maintenance cost savings and contamination impacts. Veolia Nuclear Solutions. “Treatment of Problematic Nuclear Waste Streams - GeoMelt® Vitrification of Reactive Metals” Battelle Energy Alliance, operator of the Idaho National Lab, contracted VNS to treat 55-gallon drums contaminated with reactive sodium contaminated waste. GeoMelt® proved to be an effective treatment method. SMEs and VSEs Avnir Energy. SK-DIZI surveillance system for ionized zones is a lightweight, compact and robust radioactivity detector specifically designed to be embedded on the autonomous Azur Drones Skeyetech drone. Haption Tele Robotics supplies Virtuose 6D TAO, a force feedback system for the master arm controlling the manipulator in a hotcell. Siléane, the Kamido robotics solution is a disruptive solution to automate the recovery and conditioning of legacy nuclear wastes. It automatically separates and identifies waste item by item and conditions the waste into drums, without exceeding a maximal quantity to prevent H2 effusions.
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE, chaired by Daniella Lulache, Head of the OECD-NEA Policy and Coordination Office. Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE solution is a web- based collaborative platform, allowing inspection bodies, manufacturers and regulators to manage data and document review, findings, audits and inspections. EDF, Stop Corrosion To stop corrosion of the alternator hollow bar EDF developed a simple solution, avoiding modification: replace the original ion exchange resin by a new one able to change the pH of the water. Nord Lock Group The Hydraulic closure system provides a temporary joint closure solution during maintenance outages – improving operational performances. SMEs and VSEs Monteiro Cryocontrol® is a fully comprehensive system managing the formation of ice plugs, also known as pipefreezing in the industrial maintenance world. This system
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has been developed to take into account the specificity of the pipe receiving the freeze, the site and its level of safety while addressing quality control and traceability. Oakridge SAS’s NESTERS (Nuclear Ex-core instrumentation system) is a tailor-made, data-centric app. It dramatically eases the management of the multi-year maintenance programme of the nuclear ex-core instrumentation system, by gathering and displaying real-time accurate data from multiple sources. Siteflow is a first cloud-based Field Service Management Solution dedicated to the nuclear industry.
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, chaired by Mary Alice Hayward, Principal of Hayward Consulting. CEA’s Create Your MOOK knowledge management methodology carried out on ASTRID, a Gen IV Reactor project, is based on a series of expert interviews and video recordings, transformed into a “MOOK” (Management of Organized Online Knowledge). Orano Group, in a Corporate Online Open Course Orano Nuclear Fuel Cycle Process experts have synthesized their knowledge and technical skills into 20min digital formats to share with the group’s employees in France. Rosatom Corporate Academy’s the Rosatom for Rosatom knowledge transfer project stimulated and supported training of employees in addition to their main responsibilities.
NUCLEAR SAFETY, chaired by Véronica Garea, President of Fundación INVAP. Doosan Babcock, a new NDT inspection system was required to support the 100 year design life criteria of the multi- purpose canisters for use in the SZB Dry Fuel Store. A Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing system was developed for this specific application, and its application is now part of the storage process. EDF Radiation protection shells reduces radiation around the radiological inspection zone for welded join. It offers: no weak line, reliable boundaries zone delimitation, reduced collective dose, optimised co-activities of adjacent work sites. Orano Group and CEA have been developing an ease- of-use medical therapy based on the nebulization of DTPA aerosols to complete the current medical therapy (intravenous perfusion) and provide patients with a more efficient treatment internal contamination by transuranium radionuclides, inhalation and wound. SMEs and VSEs ASVAD Int’s valve to achieve nitrogen-free reactors is a passive and automatic valve to avoid the nitrogen injection from the accumulators. The valve will act during an accident, and when the accumulator gets depleted. Cathelain and co-applicants have developed C-Bolt to control the durability of safety fasteners, and the integrity of the tightening process, via a fiber optic sensor by means of a patented process developed with Op’Sens and FT Mesures. Piercan SAS offers a Secure and quick glove change with ejector ring system STIC with its own secured immobilisation mechanical system.
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