AREVA NP SAS (ANP-F)
With manufacturing facilities in 40 countries and a sales network in more than 100, AREVA offers customers reliable technological solutions for CO2-free power generation and electricity transmission and distribution. AREVA is the world leader in nuclear power and the only company to cover all industrial activities in this field. Around 58,000 employees are committed to continuous improvement on a daily basis, making sustainable development the focal point of the group's industrial strategy.
AREVA NP is a jointly-owned company, AREVA (66%) and Siemens (34%), headquartered in Paris, with regional subsidiaries in the U.S. and Germany. With 16,000 employees, AREVA NP is the world leader in the design and construction of nuclear power plants and research reactors, engineering, instrumentation and control, modernization, maintenance and repair services, component manufacture and supply of nuclear fuel.
The Technical Centre of AREVA NP is devoted to the R&D in welding, mechanical, thermo-hydraulic, corrosion and oxidation domains. The Corrosion and Chemistry department has developed skills and competences in relation to the very special field of nuclear plants especially in the field of Stress Corrosion Cracking and oxidation in high temperature (up to 360°C), high pressure (up to 200 bars) controlled aqueous environments.
Within PERFORM 60, ANP-F will contribute to i) WP3-2: understanding of the SCC mechanisms of irradiated austenitic SS exposed to PWR primary coolant, and ii) WP3-4: evaluation and the synthesis of the work done within the PERFORM 60 project in the frame of the prediction of the IASCC of RPV internal steels.
