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NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, January-February 2016
New Products,
Services &
Contracts
New Products
Neutron Quench
3M™
Neutron
Quench
is
manufactured by
Ceradyne, Inc., a 3M
company
. Developed for situations where
criticality control exceeds normal control
methods, this highly soluble boron-based
compound enhances neutron absorption
to elevated levels. 3M neutron quench
may be injected into the reactor coolant
to affect a complete core shutdown during
emergency scenarios.
3M neutron quench may be dispersed
in the fuel storage pools post-disruptive
events, such as seismic incidents or
mechanical failures, to maximize
criticality safety margins when moving
fuel under high levels of uncertainty.
Contact: Sandra Rushin, Ceradyne,
Inc., a 3M company, telephone: (918)
336-8120, email:
.
Services
Hydrogen Risk
Monitoring System
GLSEQ
, a provider of Equipment
Qualification and Seismic services,
introduces a new Intrinsically Smart
Severe Accident Instrumentation Line
(IS-SAIL™) featuring its advanced
Hydrogen Risk Monitoring System
(HRMS). HRMS sensors follow the
progression of a Severe Accident by
monitoring hydrogen concentration,
oxygen concentration, temperature,
pressure and relative humidity. This is
the first system to be able to measure
hydrogen from fuel damage, carbon
monoxide from Molten Core Concrete
Interaction (MCCI), evaluate risk of
explosion, and identify pre-engineered
mitigation information to the operators.
HRMS provides real time severe
accident conditions and hydrogen and
carbon monoxide levels in and outside
containment during Severe Accidents.
The IS-SAIL technology converts critical
gases to electrical signals at the point of
origin and therefore eliminates the older
methods of gas sampling.
Contact: Eugene Gleason, GLSEQ,
LLC, telephone: (520) 572-3651.
Carbon Fiber Pipes
Pipe Reconstruction, Inc
. (PRI)
provides carbon fiber composite
design, engineering, procurement and
installation. We provide innovative, cost
effective solutions to inspect, design and
repair large and small bore pipes, tanks,
walls, expansion joints and more. In
1997 the KPFF Advanced Technology
& Industrial Group and PRI invented
the first application of a carbon fiber /
epoxy resin composite to be used in the
repair and strengthening of buried piping
systems for the U.S. nuclear power plant
industry.
With almost 20 years of testing,
approvals and hands-on experience,
our proprietary carbon fiber composite
application for pressurized and non-
pressurized pipe repair and replacement
stands far above any other carbon
fiber composite company. PRI has
now produced more than 1.6 million
square feet of carbon fiber for over 500
reconstruction and repair engagements
around the world, including the repair of
pipes that range in size from 4 inches to
144 inches in diameter, with pressures as
high as 400 psi.
Contact:
Brian
Raji,
Pipe
Reconstruction, telephone: (480) 513-
3725, email:
Contracts
Railcars
AREVA Federal Services
, an
AREVA subsidiary, has been awarded
an $8.6 million contract by the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
for the design and fabrication of
prototype railcars for nuclear material
transportation. These railcars will be used
for large-scale transport of used nuclear
fuel and other high-level radioactive
material (HLRM) to interim and eventual
permanent storage facilities.
This contract includes the conceptual
design and dynamic modeling of HLRM
transport casks cars as well as buffer cars,
which provide spacing between the cask
railcars and the locomotive.
Once the concepts are certified by
the Association of American Railroads
(AAR) for HLRM transport, AREVA
will begin the fabrication of the prototype
cask and buffer railcars.
AREVA Federal Services will
lead a team that includes KASGRO
Rail, the fabricator of the only cask car
currently certified for HLRM transport,
and Transportation Technology Center,
Inc., a railcar dynamic modeling and
testing facility. Stoller Newport News
Nuclear and MHF Services will support
conceptual design reviews.
The nuclear transport railcar
concepts are an integral part of the
DOE’s Strategy for the Management and
Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-
Level Radioactive Waste. This outlines a
first step in the path to pilot the operation
of a national consolidated interim storage
facility by 2021 and to site and to license
a larger national consolidated interim
storage facility by 2025.
Contact: Curtis Roberts, AREVA,
Inc., telephone: (202) 974-8766, email:
.
SMR Fuel Assemblies
AREVA Inc.
has signed a contract
to manufacture fuel assemblies for
NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR).
Under this agreement, AREVA will
supply the initial cores for the reactors as
well as subsequent reloads.
AREVA’s HTPTM fuel assemblies
have been designed for use in the SMR
advanced pressurized water reactor
currently under development. Mechanical
and thermal hydraulic testing of these
new fuel assemblies are underway as
part of NuScale’s 50MWe SMR design
certification application, which is planned
for submission to the NRC in 2016.
Contact: AREVA Inc., telephone: 33
Dry Fuel Storage
AREVA TN
recently signed a
contractwithXcelEnergy toprovidewide-
ranging dry fuel storage management
services to the company’s Prairie Island
and Monticello nuclear generating plants
in Red Wing and Monticello, Minnesota,
respectively.
Under this multi-year contract,
AREVA will oversee and perform the
removal of nuclear fuel from the Prairie
Island reactor’s spent fuel storage pool,
its placement in dry storage casks and
