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“The AREVA TN brand has evolved,
but our commitment to our customers here
in North America remains unchanged
and we will continue to provide safe,
innovative and proven solutions,” said
Mike McMahon, senior vice president
of AREVA TN in the United States.
“Our strong presence in North America
is focused on operational excellence
and includes used fuel storage systems
and transportation services, which we
provide to more than 50 percent of all
U.S. nuclear plants.”
AREVA TN leverages the expertise
of more than 1,500 nuclear industry
experts; a wide range of used nuclear
fuel storage technologies, including
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; and more than 200 types of
transport packages to tailor innovative
solutions that meet customer needs.
Contact:
Dolline
Hatchett,
telephone: (704) 517-9837, email:
Memorandum of
Understanding
The
Babcock & Wilcox Company
(B&W) and TerraPower
®
have signed
a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) to support the development of
TerraPower’s Generation IV traveling
wave reactor (TWR), a safe, economic
and sustainable nuclear energy system
that utilizes advanced materials for more
durablemetallic fuels and supercomputing
for advanced comprehensive modeling.
The TWR commercial reactor plant
design is a 1,150 megawatt liquid sodium-
cooled fast reactor that uses depleted
uranium as fuel. This innovative design
allows for the use of depleted uranium
generated by the enrichment process
used for existing light water reactors
fueled with enriched uranium. With the
conceptual design phase under way,
B&W will provide support to TerraPower
as the project enters the preliminary
design phase.
B&W will provide TerraPower with
services and program support in multiple
areas, which may include design and
fabrication of engineered components;
fuel fabrication process development,
prototype fabrication, fuel services;
reactor design engineering; reactor
operations support; staff augmentation,
both U.S. and foreign assignment;
engineering services; flow loop testing;
licensing support; and materials testing.
Through this MOU and the agreement,
the parties are currently working on,
B&W will be recognized as a strategic
technology supplier, while TerraPower
continues its design work and prepares to
commercialize the reactor globally.
Unlike B&W’s Generation III++
small modular reactor (SMR), mPower™
which is based on PWR technology
and standard fuel enriched to 5%,
TerraPower’s TWR is a larger reactor
based on Generation IV technology and
designed to use depleted uranium as fuel.
Contact: Aimee Mills, telephone:
Safety Award
Day & Zimmermann
(D&Z), a
provider of construction and engineering,
staffing and defense solutions for leading
corporations and governments around the
world, announced today that it has received
the Maynard Spence Safety Award from
the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
for the second consecutive year. The
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