Paris-based engineering giant Assystem, said this week it had joined the new Hinkley Point C Commissioning Alliance with the aim of building the first nuclear power plant in Britain to be built in the past three decades.
“This new multi-year contract will be key to making the UK’s largest low-carbon power plant operational,” the company said.
The company will focus on technology to provide assurance that the plant’s nuclear, safety, instrumentation and communications systems meet pre-determined operational requirements.
Hinkley Point C is a two-reactor, 3200MWe capacity European Pressurized Reactor project that was announced by the British government in 2010. The creation of the Commissioning Alliance marks a unique moment in the UK’s civil nuclear history being the first time that a nuclear power plant has been prepared for operation since Sizewell B built 1987 to 1994 and commissioned in February 1995.