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infrastructure markets, has announced that
its UK ball valve manufacturing operation
has been awarded ASME III ‘N’ stamp
approval.
The certification covers all ASME III
valve classifications for the nuclear power
industry including Class 1, which allows
Flowserve Flow Control UK through its
manufacturing facility in Burgess Hill,
West Sussex to supply Worcester Controls
ball valves to the most critical service
applications on the nuclear island. Section
III of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel
Code is built around quality standards
that enhance safety throughout a nuclear
site and is the most widely used nuclear
pressure vessel code around the world.
Flowserve Flow Control UK is the
only UK manufacturer of ball valves to
be awarded the ASME III “N” stamp.
It has also been approved as a Material
Organization for the supply of ferrous and
non-ferrous materials.
Contact: Lars Rosene, telephone:
(972) 443-6644.
Technical Review
The NRC has completed its technical
review of the design of
GE Hitachi
Nuclear Energy’s
Economic Simplified
Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) and
last week the commission released a
rulemaking schedule as part of a process
that is expected to lead to certification of
the ESBWR later this year.
GEH CEO Caroline Reda said,
“We are excited to reach this important
milestone in the development of the
ESBWR.We look forward to an expeditious
rulemaking process to certify the ESBWR
design, paving the way for the reactor’s
construction in the U.S. and supporting
opportunities for us globally.”
Contact: Jon Allen, telephone: (910)
Vertical Lifter
Konecranes
, a global manufacturer
of lifting technology, offers the dynamic
ATL Vertical Lifter to meet the handling
requirements of a variety of industries.
Boasting a lifting capacity of up to
1,600 kg and absorption of torque up to
4,000 Nm, the ATL Vertical Lifter from
Konecranes offers diverse, high-quality
drive concepts with pneumatic balance
controls or electrical chain hoists.
Konecranes’ pneumatic manipulators
are ceiling-based solutions made up of
an XA crane system and a telescopic
lifting device combined with a customized
gripping unit. Their modular design allows
flexibility and adaptability to meet the
particular needs of individual operations.
Unlike chain or rope hoists, the ATL
Vertical Lifter from Konecranes can lift
loads outside the center of gravity and its
balancing mode makes the handling of
parts feel nearly weightless. High-quality
telescope guides enable precise, sway-free
lifting and vertical manipulating.
Contact: Todd Blair, telephone: (937)
Fuel Assembly Mapping
Outage crews on Unit 1 at the Byron
Generating Station were able initiate the
upper internals lift earlier than scheduled,
based in part on the rapid completion of
fuel assembly mapping by engineers from
Newton Labs
using the Newton NM200E
Core Verification System. Only 49
minute were required to fully map all 193
assemblies, finishing well within the five
and a half hours scheduled for this activity
on the Critical Path. The total deployment-
to-recovery elapsed time for the NM200E
system was two and a half hours.
The NM200E tool has been adopted
by Exelon as their primary method for
determining nozzle position in their PWRs
and has been deployed at a number of other
nuclear plants in the U.S. and France. The
Newton-developed NM200E software
determines the positions of Westinghouse
and AREVA PWR fuel assemblies based
in part upon S-hole positions, and it is also
able to map the more symmetrical Babcock
and Wilcox nozzles.
Contact: Eric Yates, telephone: (425)
251-9600, email:
New Location
Nuvia Group,
a subsidiary of Sole-
tanche Freyssinet, announced that Nuvia-
USA has located an office in Charlotte,
North Carolina in January 2014. Nuvia-
USA is a specialty service and product
provider in the nuclear industry meeting
today’s challenges in Fire Protection, Plant
Life Extension, New Build, Decommis-
sioning/Dismantling and Waste Manage-
ment operations, and Nuclear Measure-
ment equipment which include detectors,
digital analyzers and waste management
systems. To better serve their customers
Nuvia-USA is in the process of qualifying
the latest technology in fire dampers; fire
and flood penetration protection and fire
barrier penetration products; while meet-
ing the demands in supporting ongoing
decommissioning and dismantling opera-
tions with its specialty diamond and laser
cutting tools for use in normal and extreme
hostile environments, which are in use and
being applied to reduce and manage RISK
during these operations. Nuvia-USA has
been selected to be the only authorized
distribution of Mecatiss passive fire barrier
products which also provides training and
reviews for new or existing installations;
as well as providing replacement prod-
ucts for the extensive product line during
normal maintenance, and re-application to
existing installations in the United States,
where there are six nuclear units that has
UL Listed Mecatiss installations.
Contact: Jacques Cardon, telephone:
Nuclear Agreement
Westinghouse Electric Company
and Ontario Power Generation, Inc.
(OPG), through its subsidiary, Canadian
Nuclear Partners (CNP), today announced
an agreement that would enable the two
companies to work together on a wide
range of global nuclear projects.
Under the agreement, the companies
will consider a diversity of nuclear projects
including refurbishment, maintenance and
outage services, decommissioning and
remediation of existing nuclear facilities,
and new nuclear power plants.
Westinghouse and OPG have
collaborated recently on several key
projects. Currently, Westinghouse is
performing work to design filtered
containment vents at OPG’s Darlington
Nuclear Power Station as part of the site’s
refurbishment program.
Contact: Sheila Holt, telephone: (412)
