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Sweden. Westinghouse has been a main
fuel supplier to OKG, having delivered
nearly 8,500 fuel assemblies to the plants.
All three boiling water reactors
(BWR) in Oskarshamn were designed
and built by ASEA-ATOM, acquired by
Westinghouse in 2000.
Contact: telephone: (412) 374-6379,
Reactor Internal Pumps
Westinghouse Electric Company
received a contract in excess of 40
million euros from Teollisuuden Voima
Oyj (TVO) to deliver 12 advanced reactor
internal pumps for Finland’s Olkiluoto
Units 1 and 2 boiling water reactors.
This investment, a prerequisite for TVO
to secure a long-term, safe and reliable
operation of their nuclear reactors, also
will allow for possible future power
uprates.
Under the terms of the contract
Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB
will be responsible for managing the
overall project, as well as installation
and commissioning. Westinghouse will
partner with KSB Aktiengesellschaft
(KSB) for the manufacturing and testing
of the pumps and valves, and equipment
testing, including a full-scale test which
will be performed by Toshiba Corporation
in Japan.
The reactor internal pumps are
part of the main circulation circuit that
provides the rotation of water through the
reactor core. Each reactor vessel has six
internal pumps. Installation and testing
is scheduled during the 2016, 2017 and
2018 maintenance outages.
Contact: telephone: (412) 374-6379,
Contracts..
Santa María de Garoña nuclear power
plants in Spain.
Contact: Jon Allen, telephone: (910)
Part-Task Trainer
L-3 MAPPS
announced that it
was selected by Florida Power & Light
Company (FPL) to supply a St. Lucie Plant
Unit 1 part-task trainer. The trainer will
be used by FPL for just-in-time training
for Unit 1 shutdown cooling operations
scheduled to take place in the first quarter
of 2015. The project is underway and is
expected to be completed by the end of
this year.
L-3 MAPPS will develop a new
Unit 1 shutdown cooling system model,
which includes the containment spray
and safety injection systems, utilizing
its Orchid
®
Modeling Environment.
The plant operators will be trained in a
classroom environment by interacting with
Unit 1-specific control room virtual panels
using L-3 MAPPS’ popular Orchid Touch
Interface solution. The operators will use
the actual plant procedures to operate the
part-task trainer the same way they are
exercised in the plant control room. At
the completion of this project, St. Lucie
will be equipped with a total of eight
Orchid Touch Interface bays deployed
in a number of classrooms for various
purposes. L-3 MAPPS will also develop
special-purpose
active
schematics,
allowing the instructor to monitor the
shutdown cooling system parameters,
inject malfunctions and trigger remote
operator actions.
Contact: Sean Bradley, telephone:
(514) 787-4953.
Award
Structural Integrity Associates,
Inc
., an engineering consulting company
to the Energy and Power Industry, was
presented the Corporate Appreciation
Award by J. Robert Sims, Jr., the President
of American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME), at the annual ASME
PVP Conference on July 23, 2014. The
ASME selected Structural Integrity
due to their significant leadership in the
ASME and industry since their founding
in 1983.
Structural
Integrity
supported
approximately 40 ASME Codes and
Standards Committees, and been an
active supporter of the Pressure Vessels
and Piping Division (PVP) by authoring
or co-authoring over 55 papers in the
past five years in addition to three
tutorials, developed sessions related
to high pressure technology, materials
and fabrication, design analysis, and
fatigue, and participated in Software and
NDE Forums. Their industry expertise
is recognized by the organization and
industry through the leadership as
Technical Committee Chairs, Conference
Chairs, and in 2011, Laney Bisbee, the
company CEO, was a plenary speaker.
Contact: Vicki Douglass, telephone:
I&C Agreements
Westinghouse Electric Company
LLC
signed two instrumentation and
control (I&C) system cooperation
agreements with China’s State Nuclear
Power Automation System Engineering
Company (SNPAS).
Danny Roderick, president and CEO,
Westinghouse Electric Company, and
Wang Binghua, chairman, State Nuclear
Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC)
witnessed the agreement signings that
will enable Westinghouse to sustain its
Automation and Field Services business
growth in China’s nuclear energy market.
One of the agreements extends
an I&C systems cooperation signed in
November 2010 for China AP1000
®
nuclear plant I&C systems. The extension
covers the strategic relationship of
Westinghouse and SNPAS in supplying
I&C systems for AP1000 new-plant
projects into the future.
The second agreement covers I&C
systems for future global SNPTC nuclear
power plant projects, using designs
derived from the AP1000 design by
SNPTC. Earlier this year, Westinghouse
and SNPTC signed a Memorandum of
Understanding covering a broad range
of areas of cooperation; this second
agreement falls under that strategic
nuclear technology partnership.
Contact: Sheila Holt, telephone:
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