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CCI AG (former Sulzer Thermtec Ltd), P.O. Box, CH-8404 Winterthur; tel. +41 52 264 9710, fax +41 52 262 01 65, e-mail info@ccivalve.com, http://www.ccivalve.com;
contact: Peter Glaus.
Products/Services/Activities: Engineering and expert services such as analysis, feasibility studies, planning, design, technical calculation, project implementation, quality management according to ISO 9001, as well as procurement or manufacturing and erection services for new nuclear plant systems and components, retrofits, upgradings, requalification or maintenance. Plant life prediction and extension. Cause-of-damage investigations. Seismic calculation and requalification. Remote repair and maintenance devices, spent fuel pool cleaning services, routine service work. Non-destructive testing, base-line and in-service inspections, leakage rate measurement service. Steam generator replacements. Pipe-work systems, mechanical handling equipment, pressure vessels, core internals for reactor pressure vessels, high-density fuel storage racks, filtered containment venting systems, suction strainers for reactor cooling systems, hydrogen passive autocatalytic recombiner system for containments.
System-operated parallel gate and globe valves of the following types: main steam safety valves, pressurizer safety and relief valves, main steam isolating valves, piston check valves with damping, gate valves. Electrically, hydraulically or pneumatically operated control valves. Swing check valves, gate valves. Solenoid valves for severe duties. Inductive position indication systems for globe, gate and check valves.
Nuclear DRAG® valves; “Velocity Control” valves for severe service, for eliminating cavitation, vibration and noise problems; pump minimum flow control valves, atmospheric dump valves; turbine bypass valves, feedwater control valves, high-pressure letdown valves; retrofits; vent resistors/silencers, in-line resistors; flow-testing.


Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear, Amunátegui 95, P.O. Box 188-D, 6500678 Santiago, Chile; tel. +56 2 470600, fax +56 2 4702598, e-mail consulta@cchen.cl, http://www.cchen.cl.
Products/Services/Activities: Governmental institution in charge of the promotion, research, development and adaptation of peaceful uses of nuclear energy, as well as of their regulation and control.
Additionally, it has the mission to advise the government on technical and legal matters related to nuclear energy as well as to transfer technologies in the manufacturing sector.
Supply of radioisotopes and medical radiopharmaceutical products for therapy and diagnosis. Low activity radioactive waste treatment plant. Multipurpose gamma irradiation plant. Fuel elements fabrication plant. Two research reactors of 5 MWth and 10 MWth. The 5-MWth research reactor non-destructively studies materials via neutrography, neutron diffraction, scattering, prompt-gamma and neutron deep profiling. Laboratories in the following areas: irradiation, environmental isotopes, nuclear techniques in agriculture and radioactive tracers, neutron activation analysis, basic and applied research in the area of plasma physics and ceramic materials developed of electronic devices oriented to radiation detection.

Centralschweizerische Kraftwerke (CKW), Hirschengraben 33, CH-6002 Luzern; tel. +41 41 249 51 11, fax +41 41 249 50 75, e-mail h.beeler@ckw.ch; http://www.ckw.ch contact Heinz Beeler.
Products/Services/Activities: CKW is a public and private owned electricity distribution and supply company covering about 8% of the national needs. 65% of CKW electricity is supplied by nuclear power stations (Gösgen, Leibstadt, AKEB, ENAG).


Chubu Electric Power Co.
(London office), Nightingale House, 65 Curzon Street, London W1J 8PE, UK; tel. +44 20 7409 0142, fax +44 20 7408 0801, e-mail uchikawa.tsuyoshi@chuden.co.jp, http://www.chuden.co.jp; contact Tsuyoshi Uchikawa.
Products/Services/Activities: Chubu Electric supplies electricity in Japan from its Hamaoka NPP (four units totaling 3617 MWe) as well as from thermal and hydro power stations.


Colenco Power Engineering AG
, nuclear technology department, Täfernstr. 26, CH-5405 Baden; tel. +41 56 483 15 06, fax +41 56 483 18 54, e-mail jan.kocourek@
colenco.ch
, http://www.colenco.ch; contact Jan Kocourek.
Products/Services/Activities:
Nuclear power plants: plant construction, retrofit, power uprate and safety enhancement: feasibility studies, engineering for I&C, mechanical equipment and civil work, bid specification and evaluation, contract management. Safety, licensing and plant operation: licensing procedures, safety and risk assessment, operation support, maintenance planning, emergency drill and instructions, cost reduction evaluation.
Waste management: process technology, engineering of treatment and handling installations, design, construction and commissioning of interim storage facilities, design of repository equipment, operation planning, site characterization and safety analyses.
Modeling and simulation: modeling of behavior
of pressurized and boiling water reactors, transient analysis, dispersion of radionuclides in the environment.


Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA)
, Nuclear Energy Division, 31/33, rue de la Fédération, F-75752 Paris Cedex 15; tel. +33 1 4056 1595, fax +33 1 4056 1673; http://www.cea.fr/ default_gb.htm contact Jacques Bouchard.
Products/Services/Activities: R&D in nuclear fields: nuclear reactors studies, safety researches. Experimental nuclear fuel fabrications, fuel cycle development, reprocessing studies, waste management research programs (partitioning, transmutation, conditioning, storage and disposal). R&D on future nuclear energy systems. Decommissioning and dismantling activites.
3 research centers: Cadarache (F-13108); Saclay (F-91191); Valrho (F-30207). Means: 5000 permanent staff including 2150 researchers/engineers; 760 ME.
Facilities: Hot laboratories, experimental research reactors, hot and cold testing facilities.