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Maintenance &
Modification
Day & Zimmermann
(D&Z), a
provider of construction & engineering,
staffing, and defense solutions for
corporations and governments around
the world, announced its Engineering,
Construction & Maintenance group
signed a multi-year contract renewal
with FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating
Company (FENOC). D&Z will continue
to provide full-service maintenance and
modifications for refueling outages,
online operations and capital projects at
FENOC’s three nuclear power facilities,
as well as Valve and Radiological
Protection services.
FENOC began its relationship with
D&Z in 1999. Since that time, D&Z has
participated in more than 50 refueling
outages at FENOC’s Davis-Besse
Nuclear Power Station, Perry Nuclear
Power Plant and the two-unit Beaver
Valley Power Station.
Contact: Steve Wanczyk, Braithwaite
Communications, telephone: (215) 564-
Simulator Updates
L-3 MAPPS
has secured multiple
contracts from Florida Power & Light
Company (FPL) in relation to the St.
Lucie Plant simulator. L-3 MAPPS will
rehost the existing full scope simulator,
simulate new digital controllers to
support a plant modification, replace the
simulator’s input/output (I/O) gateway
computer and provide a new classroom
simulator. Work on all four projects is
underway and the updated simulator is
expected to enter service at St. Lucie by
the end of this year.
L-3 MAPPS will rehost the St.
Lucie Plant’s simulation software using
its industry-leading Orchid
®
simulation
environment. In the plant, legacy analog
controllers will be replaced with new
Yokogawa YS1700 digital controllers.
In order for the simulator to accurately
replicate the plant’s response and train
plant operators on the new equipment,
the controllers will be simulated with
L-3 MAPPS’ software. L-3 MAPPS
will also replace the current Linux I/O
gateway computer with a Windows I/O
computer, interfacing the simulation
server with the original I/O system
delivered with the simulator in the
mid-1980s. Additionally, using touch-
screen technology from its Orchid
Touch Interface solution, L-3 MAPPS
is developing a classroom simulator to
provide an accurate representation of the
control room environment by emulating
the plant’s physical hard panels. The
classroom simulator will comprise three
Orchid Touch Interface bays.
Contact: Sean Bradley, telephone:
(514) 787-4953.
Engineering Services
Rolls-Royce
has been awarded a
nuclear engineering services contract by
Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear
company. In a separate agreement, Rolls-
Royce announced that it will collaborate
with Rosatom and Finnish nuclear utility
company Fortum on an initial project
to assess the feasibility of introducing
Russian ‘Generation III+ VVER’ nuclear
reactor technology to the UK new
build market. The UK Government and
Rosatom also signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to facilitate this
commercial work.
Rolls-Royce and Rosatom have been
working closely together since 2011,when
a Memorandum of Understanding was
signed between the two companies. The
contract will see Rolls-Royce undertake
engineering and safety assessment work
for Rosatom ahead of its ‘Generation III+
VVER reactor technology’ potentially
entering the first step of the UK’s formal
regulatory approval process, called
Generic Design Assessment.
Contact: Paul Vallance, telephone:
Pool-to-Pad
Transnuclear, Inc
., an AREVA
company, has been selected by two U.S.
utilities to perform pool-to-pad loading
campaigns featuring Transnuclear’s
patented NUHOMS
®
dry shielded
canisters. The campaigns include a
10-canister loading that began in June
2013, lasting 10 weeks, and an eight-
canister loading that is planned for
March 2014 and scheduled to complete
in eight weeks. The loading schedules
are consistent with Transnuclear’s safe
loading performance track record of one
canister per week.
Since 2011, Transnuclear has
completed 57 consecutive successful
pool-to-pad loadings including 20
canister loadings in 2013. The pool-to-
pad loadings were completed with low
doses of radiation and no change orders.
Contact:
Dolline
Hatchett,
telephone: (704) 805-2616, email:
.
AP1000 Mock-up
Westinghouse Electric Company
today announced that it has contracted
with Vítkovice Power Engineering
a.s., a member of the Czech Vítkovice
Machinery Group, to construct a mock-
up of one of the AP1000
®
nuclear power
plant’s critical modules in preparation
for the potential construction of
Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power
plants in the Czech Republic.
This demonstration project will
have Vítkovice Power Engineering
manufacture sub-module 05, a cutaway
section of the larger CA-20 module. The
structural module CA-20 of the AP1000
nuclear power plant is comprised of 72
sub-modules, weighs approximately 900
metric tons, and contains the area that
will be used to house spent fuel. The
sub-module mock-up is expected to be
completed in early 2014.
This purchase agreement follows a
recent (January 2013) amendment to an
existing Memorandum of Understanding
with Vítkovice a.s., Vítkovice Heavy
Machinery a.s., Vítkovice Power
Engineering and Hutní montáže a.s.
Under the terms of the agreement, these
prominent Czech companies joined the
Temelin AP1000 team to jointly offer
as potential fabricators of key structural
and mechanical equipment modules,
should the AP1000 reactor be selected to
complete the expansion of the Temelín
Nuclear Power Plant.
Contact: Vaughn Gilbert, telephone:
