Newsletter. Headlines. Number 19 - July Ensa participates in the Managing Development Program - July 2014

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1 Headlines Ensa receives a visit by the International Youth Nuclear Congress - July 2014 Ensa participates in the Managing Development Program - July 2014 ENWESA to install Combined Cycle Plant at Bouchain NPP FRANCE - July 2014 Tecnatom revises the Atucha 1 control room - July 2014 Tecnatom manages the Emergency Support Centre (ESC) - July 2014 The TESCAN equipment successfully passes FAT tests - July 2014 Tecnatom with Horizon Nuclear Power - July 2014 Our Dosimetry service accredited by ENAC - July 2014

2 Ensa receives a visit by the International Youth Nuclear Congress - July On Friday 11th of July, Ensa had a special day. The date to welcome the visitors from the IYNC (International Youth Nuclear Congress) had been marked on the calendar weeks before. IYNC is an international congress that brings together the future generation of professionals in the nuclear sector in order to develop new ideas, share knowledge and participate in debates about new industry goals. It also serves as a networking forum among young engineers and scientists of several nationalities, offering many activities, conferences and technical tours. Burgos was the meeting point for this 2014 edition, as the event takes place every two years in a different city in the world. Ensa had been selected for one of the scheduled technical tours and our company had the privilege of welcoming and showing the facilities to many young people from different countries, such as USA, France, Czech Republic, South Korea, Germany, Japan, Sweden and United Kingdom. Ensa s young nuclears Guillermo Calleja (Nuclear Business Marketing & Sales), Verónica Román (Welding Engineer), Tamara París (Business Development Marketing & Sales), Alejandro Palacio (Spent Fuel Engineer) and Emma Merino (R+D Management) hosted the event. After a technical tour to the shop and the Advanced Technology Centre, there was a boat trip around Santander Bay to Pedreña where the visit ended with lunch. Ensa is satisfied with the visit and the effort and enthusiasm given to the event. The company is especially grateful to the organization of the International Youth Nuclear Congress and thanks the Congress for their visit. Ensa participates in the Managing Development Program - July Two employees of Ensa have participated in the 6th edition of the Managing Development Program (MDP) organised by SEPI in coordination with the Industrial Management School. The aim of this program is to prepare the candidates to assume management responsibilities within a multidisciplinary perspective that ensures concepts such as compromise, effort and responsibility. The MDP enables attendees to learn and develop management skills through practical training. Up to this edition, 13 Ensa employees have participated in this program.

3 ENWESA to install Combined Cycle Plant at Bouchain NPP FRANCE - July ENWESA signed an important contract to install the main equipment at the Combined Cycle Plant in Bouchain, France. The new facilities are the property of the French electric company EDF and will be built under the EDF- General Electric consortium. The future plant will be located in the north of France and it is designed to have a capacity of 210 MW, with a high efficiency system named FlexEfficiency50. The equipment is to be installed and handled by ENWESA s employees. The estimated time for the work is 18 months, and highly-skilled professionals are needed for mechanical, electrical and instrumentation activities. With this project, ENWESA ensures its experience in the French energy industry and strengthens its presence in the international market. Tecnatom revises the Atucha 1 control room - July 2014 As a result of a Periodic Safety Review (PSR), Atucha I nuclear power plant (Argentina) has performed a Human Factors Engineering (HFE) revision of its control room (CR). Within the framework of this activity, Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A. (NA-SA), the owner company of the Atucha I plant, awarded Tecnatom the project for the detailed review of the design of the CR, in accordance with the requirements of the Argentinean nuclear regulatory authority (ARN). During the execution of this project, different parts of the CR were revised, such as the main panel, the main console, the fuel assembly movement console, secondary panels and the working environment, with each of these parts including evaluation of panels, furniture and components from the perspective of both hardware and software. For performance of the work, a 3D mock-up of the CR was used, visits were made to the plant and the CR personnel were interviewed.

4 Tecnatom manages the Emergency Support Centre (ESC) - July 2014 Tecnatom has carried out a project for the development of the Emergency Support Centre (ESC) in coordination with UNESA. The objective of this centre is to provide a service supporting the nuclear emergency response capacities of the plants, integrated with the actions taken by the latter. For this purpose, the centre has been equipped with an intervention unit manned by specialist personnel, back-up equipment (mobile stand-alone electricity generators and pumps) providing a capacity supplementary to that of the plants and centralised stores with the capacity to house, maintain and mobilise the equipment in accordance with established criteria. The ESC has also been equipped with the necessary land transport logistics capabilities, the necessary action and operating procedures and emergency communication capabilities required to respond to the different scenarios under consideration. This service, available since January 2014, has been inspected by the Spanish regulatory authority (CSN), an inspection which began with an analysis of the ECS headquarters at Tecnatom and later took in each of the Spanish nuclear power plants. In addition, during the first half of 2014 the tests for validation and verification of the service were successfully performed at each of the nuclear power plants, in one case with the participation of the Military Emergency Response Unit (UME), which airlifted one item of equipment. The service provided by the ECS is added to the series of emergency preparedness and response activities already performed by Tecnatom, such as the Emergency Response Centre (ERC) service, the training of all the personnel associated with emergency preparedness and response and the development of emergency plans, severe accident guidelines, operating procedures, site emergency plans or the new guidelines for the mitigation of accidents involving extensive damage. In this way Tecnatom has consolidated itself as a leader in an area that is fundamental for nuclear safety emergency preparedness and response at the highest international level.

5 The TESCAN equipment successfully passes FAT tests - July 2014 A few weeks ago, TESCAN, the passive scalable speed scanner, was successfully subjected to FAT testing at our facilities in San Sebastián de los Reyes. This will allow the equipment to be started up in the near future at the installations of Industrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB), the company that operates the nuclear fuel manufacturing facility in Resende and that awarded the project to Tecnatom following a public call for bids. This equipment, developed in collaboration with ENUSA, will make it possible to perform an exhaustive quality control of the nuclear fuel manufactured by INB by allowing for the automatic examination of fresh fuel rods prior to their being put into operation. With its modular configuration and scalable concept, TESCAN is used to check the configuration and internal position of the components of nuclear fuels (such as the fuel pellets or springs located inside the cladding), the level of enrichment of the pellets of UO2 and, where appropriate, the percentage of doping with gadolinium. The development of this equipment has made it possible to introduce significant innovations in several of its sub-systems, such as the gamma spectrometry unit, the densitometer or the gadolinium detector. Likewise, there has been a significant evolution in the use of the eddy current technology developed by Tecnatom (TEDDY), as well as in the measurement of fuel rod deformations using optical techniques. With the development of the TESCAN equipment, Tecnatom is positioned internationally as the manufacturer of one of the most advanced fresh nuclear fuel quality control concepts. Tecnatom with Horizon Nuclear Power - July 2014 Horizon Nuclear Power and Tecnatom have held talks to explore possibilities for collaboration in relation to opportunities arising on the British nuclear market. Horizon, a subsidiary of the company Hitachi Ltd., will design and build two ABWR technology plants at the Wylfa site in Wales. These two units will be coupled to the UK grid before During the phase prior to construction, efforts will centre on licensing and on adapting the design of the plant to European standards and regulations. With its knowledge of these standards and ABWR technology, Tecnatom has been heavily involved in the Lungmen (Taiwan) and South Texas Project 3 and 4 (United States) nuclear power plant projects, thus making us a strategic partner for this type of undertaking. Furthermore, Tecnatom, along with its British partner GEN2, has been collaborating with Horizon in the development of training programmes in the English nuclear sector since 2013.

6 Our Dosimetry service accredited by ENAC - July 2014 The Tecnatom Internal Personal Dosimetry Service (IPDS) has been accredited by the Spanish National Accreditation Body (ENAC). ENAC certifies compliance of the activities carried out by the Service with the requirements established in the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard for testing and calibration laboratories, and in the ISO standards on internal dosimetry (20553, and 27048) in relation to Direct methods for the determination of the incorporation of radionuclides in the human organism by means of gamma spectrometry and estimates of effective committed dose. This accreditation makes the Tecnatom IPDS a reference on the national and overseas markets, since it guarantees technical competence in all relevant areas: qualified human resources, adequate equipment and materials and appropriate working methods. As a reference Internal Dosimetry Service in the electricity industry and an entity that calibrates CRC equipment for the measurement of activity in the human organism, this accreditation implies a guarantee of technical competence and a real commitment to on-going improvement, all of which increases trust among users and by the regulatory authority, thereby reinforcing our competitive position.