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A precise development strategy with 4 key points:

• Increase the long-term global leadership of the cluster members for the production of nuclear reactor components in order to respond to global market demand for maintenance and construction

• Expand the employment base of the cluster’s companies and increase the added value of the companies

• Modernize and develop the technical tools

• Constantly improve technologies to correspond to the reinforcement of the demands of nuclear worldwide

Advantages

The French nuclear industry is now the most complete and most experienced in its sector. Thus, while some countries are withdrawing from nuclear energy, France has maintained and improved the largest nuclear energy park in the world.

France is ready to respond to the global growth in energy demand

The Nucléaire Bourgogne cluster offers a unique concentration for the sector: One-Stop Shop
All companies in the French nuclear energy supply chain are within a 70-kilometer radius of Dijon   
Industrial production power that is unique in the world

Members

81 members  in December 2007

Companies: 57 of which 38 are small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SME)
• French companies: Alstom, Areva, BNP Paribas, Bureau Veritas, Electricité de France (EDF), Endel (subsidiary de GDF Suez), Saint Gobain, Segula Technologies, Spie Batignolles etc.

• International companies: Industeel Creusot (subsidiary of Arcelor Mittal, a Dutch-registered company), KPMG (Switzerland), Metalscan, subsidiary of the Tecnatom Group (Spain), Salzgitter Mannesmann Stainless Tubes (Germany) etc.

Research and Educational Institutions

10 centers, including Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique de Valbuc (CEA), Ecole Nationale des Arts et Métiers (ENSAM), Université de Bourgogne, Instituts Universitaires de Technologie (IUT) of Chalon-sur-Saone, Creusot and Dijon-Auxerre, CMS study and production of non-destructive and ultrasound and current control equipment of Foucault etc.
   
6 professional organizations or syndicates and 8 partner members are also partners of the cluster, including the Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), MEDEF Bourgogne, Confédération Générale des Travailleurs (CFDT) etc.

Current R&D project Partnerships

14 projects have been certified between 2005 and May 2008

Public support examples:

• Almost one million euros paid by the Single Interministerial Fund (Fonds Unique Interministériel or FUI) between 2005 and 2007
• Almost one million euros by the National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche or ANR)

International Partnerships

Current:

• Either directly, or through their industrial contracts and their primary decisionmakers, the cluster members have existing relationships throughout the world.
• Participation in the French/Indian nuclear energy conference
• Contact with the ITER Program (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in Cadarache
• Contacts with several English decision-makers in nuclear energy

Future:

• Prospect generation missions in Switzerland and the Baltic countries

• More information on pôle Nucléaire Bourgogne