AtkinsRéalis
🇨🇦 Montreal, CA · Active
Also known as SNC-Lavalin, Candu Energy
AtkinsRéalis is a Canadian engineering, procurement and construction group based in Montreal, known as SNC-Lavalin until it rebranded in September 2023. In 2011 SNC-Lavalin bought the commercial reactor division of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and the rights to the CANDU reactor, forming Candu Energy, a subsidiary in Mississauga, Ontario. CANDU is a pressurised heavy-water reactor that runs on natural uranium. The company calls itself the original equipment manufacturer and exclusive licence holder of CANDU technology, and its site describes the refurbishment of CANDU reactors at Bruce Power and Ontario Power Generation. Wikipedia lists the CANDU 6 and Enhanced CANDU 6 as Candu Energy's reactor products.
- Sector
- Fission, Supply chain
- Technology
- Pressurised heavy-water reactor
- Role
- Reactor developer, Supplier
Terms
- Pressurised heavy-water reactor
- Heavy water (deuterium oxide) kept under pressure as both coolant and moderator, which absorbs far fewer neutrons than ordinary water and so lets the reactor run on natural, unenriched uranium. That is the CANDU design's defining trade: heavy water is expensive to produce, but the fuel needs no enrichment plant. Fuel is natural or slightly enriched uranium oxide, usually in horizontal pressure tubes, refuelled online without shutting the reactor down.
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Sources
- AtkinsRéalisaggregator
- Candu Energyaggregator
- CANDU Technology | AtkinsRéalisoperator