Design Engineering Department

The Company's Design Engineering Department has a total of 47 engineers and is responsible for the following:

• development of design documentation consistent with input requirements, technical specifications, the Unified System of Design Documentation, and the industry's norms and standards,
• design feasibility studies,
• design analysis by generally accepted methods,
• acquisition of information and customer feedback on the reliability of the equipment developed,
• analysis of the product for the correctness of engineering solutions, performance, appropriateness of the materials selected, and preparation of improvement proposals,
• patent research and determination of the engineering level of the equipment designed,
• the developer's supervision of the fabrication process, participation in mounting, adjustment, testing, start-up activities at the operating site, the customer's personnel training in the equipment operation.

The experts of the Design Engineering Department have participated in more than 100 projects to develop:

• equipment for pre-shipment handling of the spent fuel to include the damaged one (grapples, tilters, transfer casks, canisters, working platforms, etc.),
• radioactive material transport packagings, including those for air shipments,
• a variety of SNF reprocessing equipment,
• equipment for research shielded cells,
• shielded glove boxes with in-box process equipment,
• power manipulators,
• shielded cells,
• automated fuel assembling line,
• facilities for pressing, carbothermal synthesis, and sintering of nitride fuel pellets,
• series production (shut-off valves, valve shielding units, pumps, etc.)

and others.

The staff operates modern office automation and licensed software (Kompas 3D, SolidWorks) as work tools.