Our company
Founded in 2000, URANUS is specialized in safety and nuclear engineering.
In contrast with companies of general services, URANUS is a specialized company in the nuclear field and provides competences and an irreplaceable experience in every technical field related to nuclear safety.
URANUS is an independent company with equity, well-known for its expertise by major actors of the energy world: CEA, ASN, IRSN, ORANO, etc.
URANUS is referred as a privileged partner for several of these actors, such as the IRSN, the ECA or even EDF, and fully contributes to engineering studies for nuclear energy.
URANUS has the ability to:
- carry out package studies, either from its own offices of Palaiseau (91) and Aix-en-Provence (13) or directly at our clients’ according to their needs;
- provide technical support to its customers.
The company is specialized in the following fields:
- scientific calculation (radiation protection and shielding, criticality, neutronic, radiolysis, containment, thermic, mechanic);
- nuclear safety;
- analysis, expertise and drafting of safety reports;
- nuclear regulations.
Those skills can be applied as well to nuclear facilities as nuclear transportation.
URANUS has computer tools in radioprotection, criticality, thermic and mechanic (ORIGEN, TRIPOLI, MCNP, SCALE, CRISTAL, CAST3M) as well as competences for others computer tools for mechanic, thermic, radiological impact and CAD, such as ANSYS, CATIA, CERES, SOLIDWORKS.