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NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, May-June 2013
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Strategic Agreements
Chinese President Xi Jinping and
French President François Hollande, Luc
Oursel, President and CEO of
AREVA
,
signed an agreement with China National
Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) in Beijing.
Sun Qin, Chairman of CNNC and
Luc Oursel, signed a letter of intent to
build a used fuel treatment and recycling
facility in China.
This agreement is a decisive
milestone in the negotiations as part of a
future contract for the sale of the facility.
The agreement covers the technical
specifications and the project organization
as well as the responsibilities and scope
of work for each partner.
The future facility would process
used nuclear fuel from Chinese power
plants in order to recover the reusable
materials and recycle them as fuel. The
facility would have a capacity to treat 800
metric tons of used fuel per year.
This facility would integrate the most
advanced recycling technologies and
present the best guarantees in terms of
safety, security, and for the environment.
This letter of intent marks China’s
recognition of AREVA’s technological
advancements in the back end of the fuel
cycle. On the global nuclear market, China
confirms the economic and environmental
viability of the strategy to process and
recycle used nuclear fuel.
Contact: Julien Duperray, telephone:
Steam Generators
AREVA is pleased to announce
the safe and successful delivery of two
steam generators to the Prairie Island
Nuclear Generating Plant in Red Wing,
Minnesota. Delivery of the generators
is the culmination of a 10-week journey
beginning at the AREVA Chalon/St.
Marcel facility in France.
After being manufactured by
AREVA at the company’s Chalon/St.
Marcel facility, the steam generators,
each 70 feet tall and weighing 330 tons,
traveled via barge to the Mediterranean
Sea. From there, they were shipped
across the Atlantic Ocean and then up the
Mississippi River, arriving at the Prairie
Island Nuclear Generating Facility near
Red Wing, Minnesota, on April 11, 2013.
These new steam generators will be stored
securely on-site until installation during
this fall’s planned refueling outage.
Contact: KellyCousineau, telephone:
New President
The
Babcock & Wilcox Company
(B&W) announced that John MacQuarrie
has been named President of its subsidiary,
Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. (B&W
Canada).
MacQuarrie’s new role will focus
on the optimization of B&W’s Canadian
operations, including the growth of
B&W Canada’s Nuclear Services and
Nuclear Equipment organizations, and
supporting B&W Canada’s Thermal
Power organization.
Contact: Natalie Cutler, telephone:
Small Modular Reactor
The
Babcock & Wilcox Company
(B&W) announced that its subsidiary,
Babcock & Wilcox mPower, Inc. (B&W
mPower), and the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) have signed a Cooperative
Agreement for funding made available
through DOE’s Small Modular Reactor
(SMR) Licensing Technical Support
Programforthedevelopmentandlicensing
of B&W’s mPower™ technology.
The $79 million allocated for the first
year of the program will be immediately
available to the B&W mPower program.
While the DOE has projected that
approximately $150 million will be made
available during the five-year period of
the DOE award, subject to incremental
appropriations from Congress and B&W
mPower’s compliance with the terms
of the Cooperative Agreement. The
Cooperative Agreement allows for $226
million or more in federal funding. B&W
mPower intends to use any additional
funding made available on a cost-shared
basis for licensing and engineering
activities that qualify under this award.
The signing of the Cooperative
Agreement formalizes B&W’s cost-share
agreement with DOE, following the
selection of the mPower America team –
comprised of B&W, the Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) and Generation mPower
– as the winner of DOE’s competitively
bid funding opportunity, in support of
commercial demonstration of the B&W
mPower SMR by 2022. B&W mPower
and Bechtel (who together formed
Generation mPower LLC) will provide
licensing and engineering support for the
mPower America Project.
Contact: Ryan Cornell, telephone:
Technology Partner
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
(GEH)
announced its selection by Dominion
Virginia Power as its new technology
partner for the North Anna Unit Three
(NA-3) Nuclear Power Plant Project.
The project development agreement
includes engineering work to support the
development of the specific Economic
Simplified Boiling Water Reactor
(ESBWR) design for NA-3 and licensing
support work for the utility’s Combined
Operating License (COL) application
to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC).
GEH also announced an agreement
with Fluor Corporation on the project.
GEH will focus on reactor design and
equipment while Fluor will bring its
experience to the balance of plant,
including planning for construction and
the installation of a GE steam turbine in
the turbine island.
