3.3 Core Component Handling Equipment Scope This package comprises reactor internals lifting equipment, their support stand and fuel/core component handling tools. These are specialised pieces of equipment similar in complexity and manufacturing requirements to many other high quality mechanisms and tools.
Previous experience in the UK For Sizewell B this equipment was supplied by Rolls Royce and GEC Automation (Alstec, now Babcock International). This capability has been retained by Rolls-Royce and continues to be practised in support of Naval fleet plants.
UK Companies In addition there are several other companies which tendered for this work at Sizewell B and still have the capability to manufacture and supply it. In addition to Rolls Royce and Babcock International the following companies could supply this equipment in total or in part: ∑∑ Onet Technologies (formerly Gravatom) ∑∑ Doosan Power Systems ∑∑ NIS ∑∑ NES ∑∑ Bendalls
Current UK Facilities and Resource Levels The facilities to manufacture such equipment comprises machine tools, assembly areas, special jigs and fixtures which would be made for the specific fitting and assembly requirements for each system design. These components are manufactured to tight tolerances which must be maintained over significant lengths, making the requirements more demanding than at first sight. The above companies should be capable of meeting the required standards. The above companies also have the skilled trades people to carry out such work. They will obviously be occupied at present on other work of similar nature for nuclear and non-nuclear contracts. The numbers of such people across the above companies varies from around 20 to a few hundred and collectively across these companies there are several hundreds of skilled people. Some of the non-nuclear organisations would have to go through some level of nuclear skills development to prove their capability to meet the contractual requirements.
Required Resource Level The Core Component Handling Package is not a major volume of work – one package per reactor – therefore the resources required are not considered to be a major challenge. All of the companies above have the capability to expand their trades skills, engineering and management base as workload demands. Hence there will be no major problem generating the necessary resource levels for this package. 23 ≤ CONTENTS