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NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, January-February 2016
Corporation...
Maintenance Facility
In a joint venture agreement,
The
Austin Company
and Kiewit Power
Nuclear have partnered to design and
build a new Maintenance Facility at
Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns
Ferry Nuclear Plant in Athens, Alabama.
The existing wood structure that
housed the various departments has
outlived its life expectancy and needs
to be replaced. Portions of the existing
building have become unusable, requiring
the development of a new facility.
The project is underway, with
Austin performing the Engineering
Services required and Kiewit leading the
Construction Management services.
The new 87,000 SF Maintenance
Facility will replace the existing
Maintenance Facility at Browns Ferry,
andwill house the ElectricalMaintenance,
Instruments and Controls, Mechanical
Maintenance, Work Control departments
and Components Engineering.
The new facility will provide
TVA with adequate workspace for the
maintenance departments and work
control, with an on-site, full-service
cafeteria for all site workers. The cafeteria
will also serve as an All-Hands meeting
space during re-fueling outages and for
other site meetings.
Construction of the new facility is
scheduled for completion in the spring of
2017.
Contact: Susan Riffle, The Austin
Company, telephone: (440) 544-2267,
email:
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Project Management
Fluor Corporation
confirmed that it
has been named byWestinghouse Electric
Company, LLC (Westinghouse), to
manage construction of twoWestinghouse
AP1000
®
nuclear power reactor projects
in Georgia and South Carolina – owned
and operated by Southern Company and
SCANA/Santee Cooper, respectively.
Fluor will immediately engage as a
subcontractor to Westinghouse in the
development of transition plans and
definitive agreements.
In a news release issued,
Westinghouse confirmed that Fluor
will manage a significant portion of
the construction of Vogtle Electric
Generating Plant’s Units 3 & 4 near
Waynesboro, Georgia, and two additional
nuclear electric generating units at
the V.C. Summer Nuclear Generating
Station located in Fairfield County, South
Carolina, and will be providing project
execution and direction, accountability
for and management of professional staff
and craft personnel, and a focus on safety,
quality and project delivery certainty.
Contact: Brett Turner, Fluor
Corporation, telephone: (864) 281-6976,
email:
Digital Solutions
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
(GEH)
and Exelon Generation announced
the joint development of two digital
solutions based on GE’s Predix platform,
the operating system of the Industrial
Internet.
One solution in joint development,
an application known as Watchtower,
will utilize data to predict asset
performance and enable Exelon to obtain
real-time operational status of plant
equipment while also receiving proactive
notifications of possible machine issues.
The other solution, an application
known as Lighthouse, will use
advanced analytics to examine historical
organizational performance indicators to
enhance decision-making capabilities,
reduce costs and optimize operational
performance.
The applications are part of GE’s
new Digital Power Plant solution that will
enable utilities and customers around the
world to apply software, analytics and
artificial intelligence to the crucial task
of generating and managing electricity
cleanly, efficiently, safely and securely in
the cyber environment.
The applications are the culmination
of extensive work by a team of GE
and Exelon employees to brainstorm
and develop solutions to some of the
industry’s biggest challenges.
Contact: Jon Allen, GEH, telephone:
ESBWR Development
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
(GEH)
and DTE Entergy announced plans to
explore advancing the detailed design of
the Economic Simplified Boiling Water
Reactor (ESBWR).
In May, 2015, DTE Energy received
the first-ever ESBWR-based combined
construction and operating license from
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC). DTE has not made a commitment
to build, but is keeping the option open,
given the long-term environmental and
economic advantages of nuclear power.
With its advanced, true passive safety
systems, the ESBWR is the world’s safest
approved nuclear reactor design based
on core damage frequency. The reactor
can cool itself for more than seven days
with no on-site or off-site AC power or
operator action, uses approximately 25
percent fewer pumps and mechanical
drives than reactors with active safety
systems and offers the lowest projected
operating, maintenance and staffing costs
in the nuclear industry on a per-kilowatt
basis.
Dominion Virginia Power has also
selected the ESBWR as their technology
of choice for a potential third reactor
at the North Anna site. That project is
expected to be licensed by the NRC in
2017.
Contact: Jon Allen, GEH, telephone:
Ginna Outage
Completed
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
(GEH)
announced the successful completion of
its first services outage at a Pressurized
Water Reactor (PWR) facility. The
outage, completed in partnership with
Exelon Generation at the R.E. Ginna
Nuclear Power Plant in Ontario, New
York, was completed under budget and
ahead of schedule with no safety-related
or human performance issues.
