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01.08.2023 News

Christophe Fournier, managing partner of our international nuclear development in European joint venture NUCEAL, visited VUJE during his first study trip

He appreciated the impressiveness of our new full-scale simulator, inspected the center for the production of manipulators, visited the Mochovce complex with four VVER 400 reactors.

Christophe Fournier, managing partner of our international nuclear development in European joint venture NUCEAL, visited VUJE during his first study trip

"As part of the Visegrad group, at the heart of Europe, Slovakia will be a major asset in the future European nuclear programme," emphasized Ch. Fournier during his first working visit.

The French company Assystem together with our company VUJE, a. s., and the Spanish IDOM signed a protocol on the creation of a joint venture NUCEAL - the NUClear Engineering ALliance, in june 2023. With over 12.000 employees in the EU, and with a strong knowledge of nuclear throughout the EU, NUCEAL has the key skills and the teams organised in all the geographical areas concerned and will be able to put its global and local expertise at the service of EDF.

NUCEAL’s aim is to support the numerous nuclear programs developed or to be developed by EDF in the EU. Support to the EDF’s UK programs will also be considered.