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“The scope of work conducted by
GEH was completed 26 hours ahead of
schedule. This performance, combined
with Exelon’s outstanding efforts, led to
the shortest outage in the 45-year history
of the Ginna plant,” said Jay Wileman,
president andCEO, GEH. “The successful
execution of our portion of this outage
demonstrates our ability to provide PWR
operators with the same level of project
management expertise and technical
rigor that our BWR customers have come
to expect.”
The outage team that GEH brought
to this project had a collective 300+
years’ of experience servicing PWRs in
a variety of functions including project
management, planning, supervision,
fuel movement and vessel disassembly
and reassembly. Prior to the start of the
outage, team members were trained at
an Exelon facility in accordance with the
utility’s standards.
Contact: Jon Allen, GEH, telephone:
General Cable
General Cable
is a global nuclear
cable supplier with 40 years of uninter-
rupted service. ULTROL
®
60+ Safety
Related/Class 1E and Safety Significant
non-Class 1E medium- and low-voltage
products meet the stringent requirements
for safety, reliability and long-term per-
formance as required by the industry.
Extensive third-party testing ensures con-
formance of ULTROL 60+ to all nuclear
requirements under ASME NQA-1 and
US NRC 10CFR50 Appendix B.
The phone number, the fax number
and the email address for General
Cable as listed in the Nuclear Plant
Journal Directory 2016 are incorrect.
The contact information given below
should be used to contact General
Cable.
Contact: General Cable, telephone:
(860) 465-8726, fax: (860) 465-8869,
email:
ultrol60+@generalcable.com
,
website:
Breaker Trip Units
Kinectrics
is entering an alliance
with the Utility Relay Company (URC) to
promote and distribute URC Breaker Trip
Units to the US Nuclear Fleet. Kinectrics
will generically qualify URC AC and DC
trip units for nuclear safety-related use,
including thermal / operational / radiation
aging, seismic qualification, EMI / RFI,
and full software / firmware dedication.
Nuclear-qualified units are scheduled
to become available in mid-summer
2016. Commercial units for non-safety
applications are available immediately.
The Kinectrics / URC units will
provide plant operators with more
advantages in monitoring performance,
scheduling preventive maintenance, and
identifying the need for refurbishment of
parent breakers.
URC trip units can utilize existing
current transformers / transducers / trip
actuators, or provide a complete retrofit
kit with new actuators, trip units and
sensors. Full, comprehensive kits have
already been designed for most low
voltage power breakers in the nuclear
fleet.
Contact: Hank Werksma, Kinectrics,
Simulator Emulation
L-3 MAPPS
announced that it has
won an order from Societatea Nationala
Nuclearelectrica S.A. (“SNN”), a
Romanian-based state-owned utilities
company, to upgrade the Cernavod
ă
full
scope simulator’s emulation of the plant
Digital Control Computers (DCCs).
DCC systems are used to monitor and
control the major reactor and power plant
functions at CANDU nuclear power
plants. The project will start immediately
and the upgraded software is expected to
be in service on the simulator in the first
quarter of 2017.
The current Linux-based DCC
simulation on the Cernavod
ă
full scope
simulator emulates a single SSCI-
125 computer’s instruction set and the
handling of the input and output (I/O)
devices managed by the DCC. The
upgraded simulator will feature a dual-
redundant DCC emulation on a Windows
operating system with the SSCI-890
computer and related I/O. The DCC
emulation is developed with L-3 MAPPS’
Orchid
®
Control System.
Contact: Sean Bradley, L-3 MAPPS,
telephone: (514) 787-4953.
Teaming Agreement
NuSource
, an “N” Certificate
holder dedicated to custom design and
manufacturing for the nuclear power
industry, has signed an exclusive teaming
agreement with Pall Corporation.
Under this agreement, NuSource will
be responsible for all Safety Related
(10CFR50 Appendix B), and ASME
Section III, filter housings, vessels, vessel
components and replacement parts for
items installed at nuclear facilities in the
United States, Canada, Latin America
and South Korea.
Contact: Waylon Waters, NuSource,
telephone: (571) 482-7404, email:
Acquisition
Westinghouse Electric Company
announced that the company received
U.S.
government
approval
on
December 31, 2015, to complete the
company’s acquisition of CB&I Stone
& Webster Inc., the nuclear construction
and integrated services business of
CB&I. Westinghouse announced on Oct.
27, 2015, that the company had signed
a definitive agreement to acquire CB&I
Stone & Webster Inc.
The
acquisition
supports
Westinghouse’s
strategic
growth
initiatives by expanding the capabilities
of the company’s global footprint. The
acquired business will reside within a
newly created Westinghouse subsidiary
called WECTEC, which will assume
project operations and assets including
AP1000 plant project contracts in the U.S.
and China and other nuclear engineering
and construction project contracts.
WECTEC also will house several
new service capabilities presently
under development, including full life-
cycle support for global projects and
governments.
Contact: Westinghouse Electric
Company, telephone: (412) 374-6379,
