Egis has won the civil engineering studies for the HPM pumping station and the cooling building for the 9HCQ waste treatment building, as part of the Basic Design of the EPR1200 project, on behalf of CNEPE.
Based entirely on the proven design of the EPR, the EPR1200 benefits from the robustness of the EPR at a power of 1,200 MWe (instead of 1,650 MWe), with the highest safety standards and optimised technical, economic and environmental performance. The EPR1200 is suitable for a wide range of site and electric grid conditions.
The market for medium-power EPRs offers significant potential, as it meets the needs of some regions that do not have an electricity grid designed for very large installed capacities and/or a sufficiently large cold source.
This type of EPR is perfectly suited to the needs of the new nuclear market in Europe, particularly in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Sweden and Slovakia. Other development opportunities are also being considered.
The aim of these studies is to confirm the architecture and feasibility of the HPM pump station and the 9HCQ cooling building of the EPR1200 riverside project.
The pumping station located in the conventional island and which will supply the machine room will house the 2 CRF pumps (Condenser Cooling Water Circuit) used to:
- draw cold water from the HCR cooling tower basin,
- pre-filter and filter the water taken from the CRF main cooling system,
- supply water to the machine room condenser HMA.
The 9HCQ cooling building will contribute to the cooling of the nuclear island and will be used to:
- house the cooling tower pumps and equipment belonging to the cooling system of the 9SRT effluent treatment building,
- house the cooling towers on its superstructure.
