Nuclear energy – consultation, analyses, advisory services

Our company is a part of British company AMEC, section AMEC Nuclear UK Limited. We were known in the past as NNC Limited, which designed up to 30 nuclear reactors especially in UK, but in Italy and Japan as well.

AMEC Nuclear UK Limited is acting in all branches of nuclear energy and has about 2 000 experts. Our customers are British Energy, EDF, Ontario Power Generation, Bruce Power, AWE, Rolls Royce, NII, US NRC, BAE, AECL, ČEZ, Enel - Slovenské elektrárne, S.N.Nuclearelectrica S.A. and many others. Our main asset in nuclear energy is our independence similarly as for other branches in which we operate. Our customers are owners, operators, contractors and regulatory authorities.

Our company AMEC s.r.o operates mainly in the Czech Republic however we have been performing many successful international projects as well.

• Nuclear environmental impact assessment
• Know-how transfer from all branches relate to nuclear energy especially from UK, Canada, South Africa and USA
• Conceptions and technical specification documentation processing
• Safety analysis, assessments and safety reports
• Coordination of involvement of Czech and Slovak companies into international projects
• Risk analysis
• Other projects in nuclear field

One of the most important fields of our activity is Environmental Impact Assessment of nuclear installations. Our previous projects included EIA for Temelín 1,2 NPP, international EIA for Temelín 1,2 NPP, EIA for all spent nuclear fuel storages in the Czech Republic, Assessment of wider conceptions of new nuclear sources, EIA for Temelín 3,4 NPP new build, EIA for spent nuclear fuel in Kozloduy (Bulgaria), Environmental evaluation for the project of power uprate at Dukovany NPP.

VWe have close relations to our parent company, so we are able use its know-how and backgrounds and it open to us doors to many nuclear projects worldwide including the lifecycle of nuclear stations. Our parent company was participated on safety audit of Dukovany NPP at the beginning of 90’s, processed technical specification for I&C reconstruction of Dukovany and Bohunice NPPs. We reviewed emergency operating procedures (EOPs) elaborated by specialists from Dukovany NPP and Westinghouse as independent expert company. We processed pilot study for Bohunice V2 NPP design basis reconstitution.

Other important fields of our activities are safety reports and risk analysis of nuclear utilities. We have made periodic safety review for Temelín NPP: Area No. 10 – organization and control and Area No. 12 – Human factor. Further we performed processing of some chapters in safety report of Dukovany NPP for power increase, or risk analysis for Dukovany NPP I&C reconstruction.

• Feasibility studies
• Architect & Owner Engineering
• Project management
• Technical specifications, limits and conditions
• Utilization of uncertainties in safety analysis for justification of power uprate
• Safety analysis and Safety reports updates
• Periodic Safety Review
• Seismic PSA and PSA Level 3
• Detailed ergonomic and human factor analysis
• Overall safety assessment of critical areas (Safety Cases)
• PDesign of advanced fuel cycles (mixed core, 18-months cycle)
• Outage management enhancement
• Outage critical path analysis and shortening
• Cost benefit applications - Reliability Centered Maintenance (RSM) methods
• NPP ageing management, cables ageing management and life extension justification
• Support for License renewal
• NPP decommissioning
• Nuclear waste management
• Decontamination