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engagement as contemplated by the
Blue Ribbon Commission report and
NRC’s expedited review of the license
application, have this facility operational
in four to five years. Make no mistake
about it: with the used fuel challenge
being overcome by the people of New
Mexico who have stood at the forefront
of fission since the inception of atomic
power, today is a new day of hope and
possibility for nuclear energy in our
country.”
The storage facility will be designed
for a 100 year service life with unfettered
capability to retrieve and move the
canisters at any time during the facility’s
service life. There is no technical limit on
the facility’s storage capacity which will
be established by the need. As a point
of reference, the size of the HI-STORM
UMAX facility to store the entire
storage capacity of the Yucca Mountain
repository (75,000 metric tons) computes
to merely 32 acres of land.
Contact:
Caitlin
Marmion,
telephone: (856) 797-0900, email:
.
Generator Excitation
System
L-3 MAPPS
has received an order
from GE Energy Control Solutions (GE)
to implement the new GE EX2100e main
generator excitation control system on the
Cernavod
ă
full scope simulator owned
and operated by Societatea Nationala
Nuclearelectrica S.A. (“SNN”), a
Romanian-based state-owned utilities
company. The project is underway and
is expected to be completed in the third
quarter of 2016.
The Cernavod
ă
full scope simulator
operates on a combined Linux/Windows
platform using L-3 MAPPS’ ROSE
®
4 modeling environment. L-3 MAPPS
will replace the legacy, non-graphical
GE Generrex main generator excitation
system model with a graphical model
of the new GE EX2100e. The human-
machine interface (HMI) will be
simulated using Orchid
®
Control System,
L-3 MAPPS’ software for the simulation
of operator stations for plant process
computers and digital control systems.
The new HMI will provide Cernavod
ă
’s
operators with a high-fidelity training
environment to practice plant startup
at power operations with the new main
generator excitation system.
An initial version of the model and
the HMI will be available by year’s
end, with training scheduled for early
2016 before the new excitation system
is installed. Following the system’s
commissioning, L-3 MAPPS will provide
support to fine-tune changes resulting
from the system’s go-live status, ensuring
the simulator matches the plant system
configuration.
Contact: Sean Bradley, telephone:
(514) 787-4953.
Module Mockup
NuScale Power, LLC
announced
that it has completed fabrication and
assembly of a full-scale, upper module
mockup of its NuScale Power Module
TM
(NPM).
The upper module mockup consists
of the top assembly of the NuScale Power
Module from the module access platform
down to the elevation of the reactor
vessel head. The availability of a full-
scale mockup with accurately sized and
located components will give NuScale’s
engineers important insights into the
inspection and maintenance activities that
are essential to plant operation.
The mockup provides the following
benefits to NuScale’s design team and
stakeholders:
provides a life-sized replication of a
small modular reactor
provides ability to plan for
accessibility, worker safety and
OSHA requirements
supports
radiation
protection
planning (ALARA) to minimize
exposure time for refueling and
maintenance workers
supports maintenance planning
supports inspection planning
supports fabrication planning
supports customer and regulator
inquiries regarding reactor module
configuration
As
the
only
U.S.-based
company established solely for the
commercialization of its SMR, NuScale
Power has developed a unique and
proprietary break-through technology
for an innovative, simple, safe, economic
and scalable small modular reactor.
Natural forces of physics—gravity,
convection, and conduction—are used
for normal operations and safe shutdown.
This eliminates many of the large and
complex systems (e.g., reactor coolant
pumps, motors, valves, large-diameter
reactor coolant system piping) found in
today’s nuclear power plants and other
SMR designs. As a result, the NuScale
plant is safe, simpler, and less expensive
to build and operate. At 50 megawatts of
electricity (gross) per module, a NuScale
power plant can include as many as 12
NuScale Power Modules™ to produce
as much as 600 MWe, gross (570 net,
nominal, after house loads).
Contact: James Mellott, telephone:
(503) 715-2233.
Acquisition
Rolls-Royce
has announced the
acquisition of R.O.V Technologies, Inc.,
a US-based business primarily providing
nuclear utility operators with remote
visual inspection services for Boiling
Water Reactors (BWR) and Pressurised
Water Reactors (PWR).
Jason Smith, Rolls-Royce President-
Nuclear, said: “The acquisition of
R.O.V Technologies, Inc. underlines
our commitment to developing a nuclear
business that meets customers’ needs
for improved equipment reliability and
outage performance over the operational
and extended lifetime of their plant.
“R.O.V Technologies has an
impressive portfolio of remote inspection
and cleaning solutions and provides a
natural extension to our nuclear services
business, bringing complementary BWR
expertise and broadening our existing
Pressurised Water Reactor remote
inspection capability. We are pleased
to welcome the team into our nuclear
business.”
Contact: Debbie Huston, telephone:
HI-STORM UMAX interim site.
