Your challenges
Ensuring the safety of nuclear installations and the entire fuel cycle while optimizing energy efficiency – these are the unchanging challenges of civil nuclear energy production. Faced with growing global demand for energy and a desire to break free from fossil resources and reduce greenhouse gases emissions in a balanced economic equation, nuclear power is growing in more than 70 countries, thirty of which have no prior experience in this industry.
Our added value
Assystem is the leading European independent nuclear engineering specialist, with 1,500 employees, of which - in a sector witnessing a skills shortage - over a hundred are seasoned experts currently on missions around the world.
Assystem has supported the players in the French nuclear energy market throughout the commissioning of the national installations (58 reactors) and continues to be a privileged partner in their maintenance, operation and development.
Assystem is involved throughout the cycle, from fuel production to reprocessing to the design, commissioning and decommissioning of nuclear installations. Its unparalleled expertise is key to its involvement in the most cutting edge research projects, such as ASTRID and ITER. Today, Assystem works through its subsidiary n.triple.a to deploy its offer internationally, particularly in countries wishing to develop nuclear power in their energy mix.
Assystem employs this expertise, which is based on knowledge of the sector, proven methodologies and recognized skills, in all energy-related industrial projects, from design to execution.
18 March 2011
ITER
An EPCM contract for ITER
Your challenge
ITER will be the largest experimental fusion reactor ever built. The sun and other stars draw their energy from fusion. Research in this field is aimed at developing a safe, inexhaustible and environmentally friendly source of energy. Located in Cadarache, southern France, ITER is a one-of-a-kind global collaboration involving the European Union’s F4E joint undertaking, which is bearing half the cost of the project, and six non-European countries. The project, which is scheduled for completion in 2018, demands engineering services that are unprecedented in Europe. The entire site will have to be built from scratch, including the reactor buildings, infrastructure and power distribution systems.