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The new safety class building to
be built by Burns & McDonnell at Los
Alamos over an 18-month period will
include construction of a nuclear-qualified
concrete structure, HVAC, electrical
systems and two, redundant safety class
Uninterruptible Power Supply systems.
Contact: Kevin Collison, telephone:
Uranium Concentrate
Cameco
announced that Cameco
Inc. has signed a supply agreement with
the Department of Atomic Energy of
India to provide 7.1 million pounds of
uranium concentrate under a long-term
contract through 2020.
The contract is Cameco Inc.’s first
with India which is the world’s second
fastest growing market for nuclear
fuel. India operates 21 nuclear reactors
providing 6,000 megawatts of nuclear
capacity meeting about 3% of the
country’s electricity needs. Another six
reactors totaling 4,300 megawatts are
under construction and scheduled to
come online by 2017. By 2032, India
expects to have 45,000 megawatts of
nuclear capacity.
Contact: Rob Gereghty, telephone:
(306) 956-6190.
Decommissioning
Support
Enercon Federal Services, a
subsidiary of
Enercon Services, Inc
., has
recently signed a contract with Brazilian
company Eletrobrás Termonuclear S.A.
- Eletronuclear, headquartered in Rio de
Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to provide
decommissioning planning support for
the three Angra Nuclear Power Plants
located at the Central Nuclear Almirante
Álvaro Alberto Center. This technical
support specifically includes preparing
a decommissioning cost estimate, waste
management estimation and final survey
planning. It also includes providing
mentoring support to a local university
who is assisting with preparation of the
preliminary decommissioning plan.
Contact: Peggy Striegel, telephone:
Technical Support
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power
(KHNP) signed a technical support
service contract with Guangdong Power
Engineering Corp. (GPEC), KHNP
announced.
Under this contract, KHNP will
dispatch its technical experts to the
construction site for Yangjiang Nuclear
Power Plant units 5 and 6 in Yangjiang,
Guangdong province, China, where they
will stay until September 2018, providing
technical advice on construction of core
parts of the plant, including the electric
generation work of the reactor systems.
The groundbreaking of Yangjiang
NPP Units 5 and 6 was held in September
2013, and the electric generation work
of the reactor systems is scheduled to be
started full scale in mid-2015.
Unlike the export of general
equipment and materials, exporting
technical support services requires
minimal costs and risks.
Since
the
establishment
of
diplomatic ties with China in 1992,
KHNP has consistently proven its
technology competency by entering the
Chinese market with projects, including
supporting the operation of Guangdong
NPP in 1993 and providing technical
support for Qinshan plant and Lingao
plant over the past 20 years.
Source:
Architect-Engineer
The U.S. Department of Energy’s
Oak Ridge Office of Environmental
Management has awarded an architect-
engineer contract to CH2M Hill
Constructors Inc.,
Merrick & Company
,
and Navarro, Inc. for the design of the
sludge processing facility build-outs
project at the DOE’s Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL), near Oak Ridge,
Tennessee. As partner to CH2M, Merrick
will be providing specialized expertise in
the design of equipment for handling and
treating transuranic materials that also
produce a high dose rate.
The transuranic waste residue comes
from past operations at ORNL and is
stored safely and securely in the Melton
Valley storage tanks at ORNL. DOE has
regulatory milestones with the State of
Tennessee requiring eventual treatment
of this material.
The contract was procured under
the government’s Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) 36.6, which requires
federal agencies to hire architects and
engineers under a qualification based
selection (QBS) strategy, providing
the government with the most highly
qualified contractor to perform the
design. The contract authorizes CH2M
and its partners, Merrick and Navarro,
Inc., to finalize the design of a test facility
and then build and operate the test facility
to advance the technical maturity level of
the equipment and systems used to treat
and process the sludge. The test results
will be used by the design team to design
the sludge processing facility which will
be constructed near the Melton Valley
tanks. These additional tasks are included
as options in the contract, and DOE will
authorize those options at the appropriate
time.
Contact: Bob Trout, telephone: (303)
Reactor Inspection
Westinghouse Electric Co
. and its
subsidiary WesDyne International has
been awarded a long-term contract for
reactor pressure vessel nozzle inspection
at Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL)
in Switzerland. The six-year contract
includes an option for four additional
years. WesDyne is the nondestructive
inspection branch of Westinghouse
Electric Co.
The contract’s scope includes
qualification of the KKL mechanized
ultrasonic inspection system using a
state-of-the-art phased array technique
and yearly inspections of eight different
nozzle types — 56 total — with each
nozzle having up to three welds. A total
of 127 welds will be inspected over the
project’s duration. Westinghouse has
been performing these inspections at
KKL over the past 10 years.
This contract will be executed
primarily out of Westinghouse’s facility
in Mannheim, Germany and supported
by an international team of experts from
WesDyne. According to Westinghouse,
this contract award is seen by the company
as a confirmation of the great success of
work already performed and KKL’s high
level of satisfaction with that work.
Contact: telephone: (412) 374-6379,
