Report of the Supervisory Board - tuv nord italia

Energy and Systems Engineering
Safety through competence
In the middle of 2004 the two fields of
energy and systems engineering were spun
off from TÜV Hannover/Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.
and TÜV NORD e.V. Since then, TÜV NORD
EnSys Hannover GmbH & Co. KG and TÜV
NORD SysTec GmbH & Co. KG have been
TÜV NORD Group’s two providers of expert
services in the field of nuclear engineering,
with separate market presences and reve-
nues of €29.6 million and €39.9 million
respectively. The operations and staff of the
nuclear engineering section of RWTÜV
Systems GmbH were integrated into TÜV
NORD EnSys Hannover as of 1 November
2004, becoming that company’s Essen
office.
In addition to the nuclear engineering
activities, the companies have also taken
over all their predecessors’ non-nuclear
Fuel assembly manufacturing plant in Lingen.
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responsibilities such as activities pursuant to
the X-Ray Ordinance, scrutiny of designs
and non-destructive testing of conventional
plant and all activities previously performed
by TÜV NORD Industrial Consultancy.
Optimisation of the Lingen fuel
assembly manufacturing plant
In the summer of 2002, Advanced Nuclear
Fuels GmbH (ANF), as the operator of the
fuel assembly manufacturing plant in Lingen,
submitted an application under Section 7
of the Atomic Power Act to expand and
optimise the plant. The quantities and enrichment
levels of the nuclear fuel (uranium
dioxide) vary widely, depending on the design
of the fuel elements to be manufactured; and
in order to be able to manage these aspects
with greater safety and with reduced handling
and analytical requirements right from
the powder manufacturing stage, the dry
conversion plant, after more than 10 years of
reliable operation, is to be expanded by the
addition of a third evaporation autoclave, a
third reaction vessel and a second rotary
tube furnace. These additions are intended
to improve the plant’s availability and to optimise
the quality assurance of the product.
In addition to adding to the conversion
plant, a variety of optimisation measures
are planned, including the building of an
extension for an automated pellet store
and the handling of UO2 pellets containing
absorber, a reorganisation of pellet handling,
the establishment of an area for the handling
and storage of pellets containing absorber
and the creation of an area for the