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News Release from: Truflo International | Subject: Nuclear order
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 March 2005
Major actuator order for nuclear
submarines
FCX IMF is celebrating the New Year with a major order for nuclear powered submarine actuators, where absolute reliability and performance is a pre-requisite
FCX IMF is celebrating the New Year with a major order from the nuclear industry The company, based in Andilly near Paris and part of the global specialist flow control group FCX, will begin its fortieth year in industry with a new order for about 1,000.000 euro for components for nuclear reactors for the fourth and last of the SNLE NG class submarine generation
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 14 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Client Technicatome, which manufactures and maintains the nuclear reactors in the vessels, has ordered high performance electric actuators used in the circuits of the nuclear reactors installed on the Charles de Gaulle, and a selection of SNLE, SNLA and SNLE NG class submarines.
The products will be required to perform in an extreme environment where absolute reliability and performance is a pre-requisite.
FCX IMF has produced products successfully for nuclear power generation applications for many years and is renowned as a world authority in pressure regulation applications in nuclear power, as well as other industrial areas.
The 38,000t, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle was constructed at the DCN Brest naval shipyard in Brittany.
The ship was launched in May 1994 and commissioned in September 2000, following sea trials that began in January 1999.
The Charles de Gaulle is equipped with two nuclear pressure water reactors, PWR Type K15, which provide a speed of 27 knots.
The 61MW turbines are from Alstom and the propulsion system has the capacity to provide five years continuous operation at 25 knots before refuelling.
FCX IMF Sales Manager, Patrick Cosmides, commented: "After the SNLE NG submarines, we are already working on the future class of nuclear powered submarines called Barraccuda.
Six submarines are to be manufactured, the first one will start its service for the French Navy at the end of 2012.
It will involve a lot of work for FCX IMF during the next 10 Years.".
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