The project
Cranes for El Cabril disposal facility
Industry
Nuclear
Customer
ENRESA
Location
Cordoba (Spain)
Year of commissioning
1991 - 2003
Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radioactivos S.A. (ENRESA) is the company responsible of the treatment, storage and final disposal of the radioactive waste in Spain as well as the dismantling of nuclear facilities.
The Spanish very low, low and intermediate level radioactive waste is disposed in its facility of El Cabril, considered as one of world’s best radioactive waste disposal plant and where TAIM WESER has supplied several customized cranes and trolleys, equipped with remote control and monitoring system and designed to perform, among others, the following activities: waste transfer at the interim store, waste containers handling, packages transfer, cranes for leaching tests bay, cranes for spectrometry tests bay and maintenance cranes.
The Challenge Achieved
Since 1991, the fruitful cooperation between TAIM WESER and ENRESA has resulted in the successful supply of 24 cranes and trolleys to El Cabril facility, providing as well the required spare parts and after sales assistances when required by customer.
The project figures
MaterialRadioactive waste
Lifting capacityfrom 1 ton to 32 ton
Spanfrom 4 m to 25 m
Lifting heightfrom 3,5 m to 13,7 m
