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Cyclife adds value to your decommissioning projects
As the number of decommissioning projects increases, Cyclife grows to provide nuclear operators with innovative, sustainable, integrated, and proven solutions.
THROUGHOUT THE LIFECYCLE OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES and during decommissioning, the management of radioactive waste requires the implementation of dedicated processes and facilities to extract, treat, reduce, condition and store waste in a sustainable manner. Cyclife, an EDF Group’s specialist company, offers long-term bespoke nuclear dismantling and waste management services for customers around the world.
A strategic partner for decommissioning and waste management projects Cyclife believes in early engagement with the customer and a waste-led approach to decommissioning. This approach optimises cost efficiency, shortens project lead times, reduces waste generation, and recycles valuable material through Cyclife’s European subsidiaries. The three nuclear licensed sites of Cyclife located in the UK, Sweden, and France, process very-low to low- level waste. They apply Best Available Techniques (BAT) to provide a range of services such as large component management, waste volume reduction, material recycling, melting, incineration, pyrolysis, and consultancy to support customers’ on-site operations. The company also has a commercial structure in Germany and five engineering and expertise centres with highly qualified teams in Europe: Cyclife Aquila Nuclear, Cyclife Digital Solutions, Cyclife Engineering, Graphitech*, and Waste2Glass*. They all use 3D real-time digital tools to define and implement decommissioning and dismantling scenarios via virtual reality and digital twins. They conceive radioactive waste treatment and storage facilities, and remotely operated tools to import and export waste. Cyclife Digital Solutions has developed a robust digital tool, DEMplus® for nuclear, which helps the decision makers to simultaneously obtain costs, lead times, waste flows and dosimetry for maintenance and dismantling operations in the nuclear industry. Estelle Desroches, CEO of Cyclife said: “Cyclife is a unique
group that offers its customers access to a combination of expertise in decommissioning project management, cutting-edge dismantling technology development and waste treatment facility design, as well as industrial waste treatment services. Partnering with Cyclife allows both to benefit from extensive feedback from similar operations and to implement a systemic approach to decommissioning and waste management operations that reduces interfaces, optimises schedules, costs, and final waste volumes.”
A waste-led decommissioning approach applied to managing large components Cyclife possesses unrivalled capabilities and expertise in the management of contaminated large components, integrating chemical and mechanical decontamination. These components are transported off-site in one piece, saving costs by shortening downtime and decommissioning
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schedules, and minimising waste for disposal throughout the clearance and recycling process. Cyclife can achieve a volume-reduction rate of up to 95% and a material recycling rate of up to 80% through the use of steam generator clearance. Cyclife’s proficient teams are committed from the inception of the project to the completion of the campaign.
Innovative, integrated and proven solutions In France, the dismantling process is underway for 11 reactors using four different technologies, including light water, heavy water, natural uranium fuelled graphite moderated gas- cooled UNGG, and fast breeder reactors. To comprehensively evaluate, verify, and optimise all procedures and equipment designed for dismantling UNGG reactor, EDF has established a full-scale industrial demonstrator, commissioned in 2022 near the Chinon nuclear power plant in France. The teams from both EDF and Graphitech work together to provide reactor decommissioning scenarios and engineering solutions through digital simulations for numerical testing. This integrated risk mitigation strategy also includes the design of decommissioning tools and operator training using the immersive space.. ■ Visit our website:
www.cyclife-edf.com *A joint-venture of EDF and Veolia.
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3D simulation to optimise nuclear dismantling projects at Cyclife Digital Solutions ©Cyclife - Philippe Eranian
Below: Treated waste at Cyclife France before going to storage facilities ©Cyclife - Philippe Eranian
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