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The European Remote Handling Alliance (ERHA), an AMEC led co-operative contracting arrangement, has pre-qualified for the ITER Divertor Remote Handling System and is now in the tender preparation phase. With so much nuclear and remote handling expertise residing in UK, the Fusion and Industry team at Culham facilitated early dialogues between a number of companies. So as early as 2010 the alliance was planned as an integrated delivery organisation, specifically established to design, manufacture, test and commission highly specialised remote handling systems for the ITER machine.
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The European Remote Handling Alliance - an AMEC led co-operative contracting arrangement
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View of the tokamak foundations at ITER
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Atkins, one of the world’s largest design, engineering and project management consultancies, is right at the front edge of the ITER project. With alliance partners (Assystem and Egis from France and Empressarios Agrupados from Spain) Atkins is the Architect-Engineer responsible for the design, procurement management and construction management of all the buildings, site infrastructure and services to those buildings, representing €1.5bn of the total €15bn of investment. Here we take a look at Atkins’ ITER experience to date.
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International legal practice Norton Rose has advised Fusion for Energy on a contract for the design and construction of the tokamak reactor hall and associated infrastructure for ITER. The contract, worth in excess of €250m, between Fusion for Energy and a joint venture of Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Ferrovial Agroman and Razel-Bec, was signed on 20 December 2012. The nature of the contract required specialist legal support in negotiating a number of complex issues.
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Andrew Buisson of Norton Rose
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Metrology equipment at Coventry University
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The Metrology Group at Coventry University has been branching out into fusion to assist ITER with measurement systems and techniques.
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The UK Atomic Energy Authority led a delegation of nearly 40 British companies to this year’s ITER Business Forum in Toulon in late March. Once again the party was the second largest after ITER hosts France, reflecting the interest being shown in the project by UK industry. A packed programme allowed business representatives to get face to face with those involved in procurement of the €14 billion project, as well as network with potential partner companies. Here are the reactions of three of the UK companies who attended, and their perspective on the prospects for involvement with ITER.
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Some of the UK delegates at IBF 2013
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Current ITER opportunities include: Engineering support for the ITER electron cyclotron launchers; Support on the documentation and interface management of the ITER Central Interlock and Central Systems; Engineer to coordinate design and R&D for neutron diagnostics; Structural analysis of ITER diagnostics components; Framework Contract for the supply of vacuum engineering support to the ITER project; Technical support on ITER diagnostics divertor, tritium & dust retention; Manufacturing of the ITER Divertor Cassette Bodies; Preliminary Design of the Water Detritiation System (WDS)Tanks; Electron Cyclotron HV power supply system.
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Around 30 companies have signed up for the Science, Technology and Innovation Exhibition at Culham Science Centre on 23 April, but there’s still time to register. Organised by NuTech Associates, the event is an opportunity to display your products and services to a large number of potential customers from the hi-tech business community at Culham.
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NuTech exhibition at Culham
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| Views expressed in Fusion Business do not necessarily reflect those of the EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association. no liability is accepted whatsoever for errors or omissions in Fusion Business. This work is funded jointly by the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences research Council (EPSRC) and by EURATOM. If you would like to comment on the content of this ezine, please contact: nick.holloway@ccfe.ac.uk |
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