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its secure storage on the site’s existing
interim storage pad.
At Monticello, AREVA will deliver
and install 10 NUHOMS
®
61BTH dry
fuel storage systems in 2017, and will
manage and perform the pool-to-pad
process to place the used fuel in the
shielded NUHOMS
®
storage modules in
2018.
Contact: Curtis Roberts, AREVA,
Inc., telephone: (202) 974-8766, email:
Outage Services
TVA has awarded a contract to
GE
Hitachi Nuclear Energy
(GEH) to
provide outage services for Browns Ferry
Nuclear Power Plant units 1, 2 and 3.
The contract, valued at more than
$70 million, calls for GEH to provide a
full portfolio of outage and inspection
services including refuel floor, under-
vessel activities and control rod drive
mechanism exchange services for the
reactors near Decatur, Alabama.
The agreement runs through 2020
and includes a total of nine outages (three
at each reactor).
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating
Company also awarded GEH a contract
to provide outage services for the Perry
Nuclear Power Plant.
The contract calls for GEH to
provide a full portfolio of outage and
inspection services including refuel floor,
under-vessel activities and control rod
drive mechanism exchange services for
the boiling water reactor in Perry, Ohio.
The agreement runs through 2021
and includes three outages.
Perry’s single unit GE boiling water
reactor produces 1,268 megawatts of
electricity, enough to power more than
1 million homes.
Contact: Jon Allen, GE Hitachi
Nuclear Energy, telephone: (910) 819-
2581, email:
Fuel Reloads
Global Nuclear Fuel
(GNF), a
joint venture, majority owned by GE,
announced on January 6, 2016 that it
has been selected by Energy Northwest
to continue to provide fuel reloads for
the Columbia Generating Station near
Richland, Washington.
A new fuel supply contract awarded
to GNF runs from 2019 through 2027
and includes five reloads for the 1,190
megawatt boiling water reactor. The total
value of the contract is approximately
$90 million.
Columbia began using GNF2 fuel in
2015. The GNF2 high performance fuel
assembly is designed to deliver increased
energy output while decreasing overall
fuel cycle costs. GNF2’s advanced design
saves utilities money by reducing the
total amount of uranium and the average
enrichment in fuel reloads.
Fuel for Columbia is fabricated by
GNF at its facility in Wilmington, North
Carolina.
Contact: Jon Allen, GE Hitachi
Nuclear Energy, telephone: (910) 819-
2581, email:
Pusher Furnace Line
Harper International
was recently
awarded a contract for a Pusher furnace
line with KEPCO Nuclear Fuel (KNF).
Harper’s relationship started with KNF
over nineteen years ago with contracts
to supply five new sintering furnace
systems.
Over the past two years, Harper’s
Applications, Engineering & Technology
Groups have carefully developed an
advanced heating system for KNF’s
current project of producing nuclear fuel
for their pressurized heavy water reactors.
With this sixth furnace for KNF
and all furnace iterations, Harper
continuously aims to advance equipment
performance. In addition to the advanced
heating element that allows for higher
temperature operation, an enhanced
furnace shell cooling design has been
developed, and both yield longer uniform
operational life cycles. Additionally,
advances have been made in exit water
cooling design, insulation designs, which
reduce ambient heat release, and energy
usage. Harper is compliant with nuclear
specific control systems for mandated
upgrades for increased security and
reliability.
Contact: Diana Robbins, Harper
International, telephone: (716) 276-
9900, email:
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Feasibility Studies
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of
Japan have awarded a contract of
four Feasibility Studies to
NUKEM
Technologies
(NUKEM). The Studies are
part of a National R&D Project, which the
Japanese Government launched in order
to develop suitable technologies for the
dismantling of the damaged reactors in
Fukushima. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
will be a major contractor to perform the
execution works on the Fukushima site.
The Studies comprise the “Mapping
of Primary Containment Vessel (PCV)
flooring and Removal of Interference
Materials” which is the concept for
scanning and removal of materials inside
the PCV and the “Biological Shielding
Wall (BSW) Cutting and Dismantling
Method” a concept for remote cutting
of the BSW. Besides NUKEM will also
prepare concepts for a “Rail-bound carrier
system” which describes the remote
installation of a rail system and a “Fuel
Debris Retrieval Cell Transportation” in
which a remotely operated transportation
system needs to be developed.
Contact: Bea Heinze, Nukem
Technologies, telephone: 49 6023 911549,
Steam Generator
Cleaning
SNC-Lavalin
has been awarded
a contract by BWXT Canada Ltd. for
the primary side cleaning of the steam
generator tubes at Cernavod
ă
Unit 1 for
the Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica
S.A. (SNN) in Romania.
BWXT Canada is the original
manufacturer of the steam generators at
Cernavod
ă
Unit 1 and the lead contractor
on this project as part of a 10-year
comprehensive agreement for steam
generator services with SNN, dating back
to 2011.
SNC-Lavalin has held a strong
position within the nuclear industry
in steam generator cleaning. Its
Canduclean™ system uses a special
blasting material to loosen and remove
deposits that have built up inside steam
generators, while ensuring that adjoining
areas are not contaminated. Primary side
cleaning can be performed in parallel
on multiple generators, cleaning up to
four tubes simultaneously. Canduclean
equipment is modular, and can be adapted
to any plant layout.
Contact: SNC-Lavalin, telephone:
(514)
393-1000,
website:
www.
snclavalin.com
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