Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A. (NA-SA), the owner and operator of the Atucha 1 and 2 and Embalse nuclear power plants, has awarded Tecnatom a contract for the supply of valves and spares to replace the original valves at Atucha 2, supplied by Walton Weir Pacific and Bellucci.
This contract contemplates the supply of a total 28 valves of different types with their corresponding spares, including ball, diaphragm, gate and flap and piston check valves of sizes ranging from DN 6 to DN 300, part of which shall be manufactured in accordance with the ASME Code, section III, and N- Stamped
For the performance of this project, Tecnatom will collaborate closely with Ringo Válvulas, a Spanish company with which Tecnatom has had a collaboration agreement for the nuclear industry for more than 15 years.
This new supply contract is added to other projects that the Tecnatom Group has been performing in Argentina for more than 30 years in the areas of training, consultancy and in-service inspection for both NA-SA, the Argentinean Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ARN) and the country’s nuclear fuel manufacturer (CONUAR-FAE).
