Carr’s Engineering subsidiary Walischmiller delivers remote handling system to ITER Markdorf, Deutschland (18 Mai 2015) – Wälischmiller Engineering has been awarded a contract by Fusion For Energy (F4E) for the development and delivery of the Neutral Beam Cell Remote Handling System on the ITER fusion reactor at Cadarache in the South of France. F4E is the European Union organisation responsible for Europe’s contribution to ITER – the world’s biggest fusion energy project. This order attests…

The Nitric Acid reboiler must operate in the most hostile nuclear operating environment, any manufacturing flaws or weaknesses would lead to an unnacceptable failure.  This led us to create a highly innovative welding technique that allows all 96 pipes to be “back-face” welded rather than traditional fillet welded.  The result is a 4x ultra-high integrity weld around each pipe that achieves full penetration and is subject to stringent 100% nondestructive X-ray inspection by our in-house…