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Babcock Noell is active in the product areas of nuclear service, nuclear technology, magnet technology and environmental technology throughout the world and, in doing so, successfully implements the experience gained over four decades. With approximately 320 employees who are predominantly employed in the engineering area, our performance spectrum extends from the development, planning, supply and commissioning right up to the operating of the plants and equipment we supply.

For the operators of nuclear power plants and nuclear technology plants, the nuclear service is a reliable service and assembly partner. The backbone of this area is formed by an independent team of around 60 experienced service and assembly people who are available for the sophisticated work involved in nuclear power plants and nuclear facilities.

40 years experience, as well as a close cooperation with research facilities, has made us a competent partner in nuclear technology. For many years now, Babcock Noell has been actively performing the complicated tasks of modernising and retrofitting nuclear power plants. For the new building of nuclear power plants we also provide components for the building technology and machine technology, for the reactor building we provide man locks and material locks, building containment and pool cladding in stainless steel. The projects “decommissioning of the nuclear ship – Otto Hahn”, “dismantling of Niederaichbach nuclear power plant”, “construction of the Gorleben pilot conditioning unit” and many other successfully concluded contracts lay testament to our knowledge of the dismantling and disposal of nuclear plants.

Even in the 70s Babcock Noell was providing components for large research facilities like, for example, the vacuum tank for the Petra accelerator ring in Hamburg. In the early 90s Babcock Noell launched the area of magnet technology with the development of large superconductor magnet systems for high-energy physics and nuclear fusion. There then followed contracts for the series magnets for the fusion experiment “Wendelstein 7-X” and the Hadron collider “LHC” in the research centre CERN, Geneva. A unique coil production was developed and an assembly plant established for these purposes. Today we design and produce magnets, coils, undulators and spectrometers for various international research facilities. We also undertake individual development tasks for these purposes. We have particular experience in the use of superconductors in magnet systems.

The engineers in our environmental technology department have up to 25 occupational years of personal experience in the planning and construction of flue gas cleaning plants for conventional power stations and industrial applications. We provide complete systems with the necessary components like absorbers, containers, raw gas and flue gas channels, pipe work, pumps and controls. For flue gas cleaning in power plants, alongside conventional techniques we also use under license the innovative technology of the worldwide-acting power plant builder, Babcock & Wilcox, in the USA. We are also able to provide efficient, economical and low-maintenance plants for cleaning exhaust gas from incineration and industrial process.