July-August 2018 NPJ

Nuclear Plant Journal, July-August 2018 NuclearPlantJournal.com 17 building in order to support JNFL for the start-up phase and to improve its expected operational performance. Contact: Orano, telephone: 33 (0) 1 34 96 12 15, email: press@orano.group . Key Equipment ŠKODA JS a.s. has concluded a contract with French company FRAMATOME for the production and supply of two sets of EPR 1600 MW reactor pressure vessel internals for the construction of nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C in Somerset County, Great Britain. The supply shall include in particular: Core Barrel, Heavy Reflector and Upper Internals that is analogous to the upper block of a VVER 1000 reactor. The concluded contract concurs similar supplies of company ŠKODA JS for its French partners for nuclear power plant construction projects in Finland and China. In the year 2010, company ŠKODA JS a.s. supplied Core Barrel, Heavy Reflector, including machining individual forged slabs, and Upper Internals to nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3. Then in the year 2012, the company supplied the same scope of equipment, excluding machining individual forged slabs, to nuclear power plant Taishan 1. In both cases the supplied equipment has already been integrated in the reactors. In May, the operator of nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3, company TVO, announced that hot operation tests of the new EPR type reactor had been completed successfully. The Chinese regulatory body has issued a permit for loading fuel in unit Taishan 1 and the loading already started last month. The Chinese nuclear power plant could therefore be put into commercial operation yet at the end of this year. Basic parameters of the equipment to be supplied are as follows: Core Basket weighs approximately 80t, and it is a welded and machined structure made of stainless steel designed for placing the reactor core and for directing and smoothing the distribution of coolant into the reactor core. Heavy Reflector weighs approximately 100t, it is stainless steel equipment consisting of machined slabs with cooling orifices. Heavy Reflector serves as a neutron reflector. Upper Internals weigh 80t, and consist of a welded structure with guide tubes guiding the intermediate drive rods controlling the reactor output. Contact: Jan Stolar, ŠKODA JS a.s., telephone: 420 605 221 093, email: jan. stolar@skoda-js.cz. FCFR SNC-Lavalin , subsidiary SNC- Lavalin Nuclear Inc., with joint venture (JV) partners Aecon Group Inc. and AECOM, have been awarded the fuel channel and feeder replacement (FCFR) contract from Bruce Power. The contract for Unit 6 is valued at CAD $475 million and is the centrepiece of Bruce Power’s Major Component Replacement Project. SNC-Lavalin holds a 40 per cent share in the project. The joint venture will work together under the banner Shoreline Power Group. This project is in support of Bruce Power’s Life Extension Program which will allow Bruce Power’s CANDU units to continue to operate safely through to 2064. The scope of work under the contract encompasses all necessary planning and executing activities for the reactor refurbishment. Planning will commence immediately in preparation for the outage scheduled in 2020 when the actual work to replace the components will be performed, anticipating completion in the third quarter of 2022. The JV is also responsible for the management of the complex, robotic tooling required for the work, along with full training of the workforce. The JV partners also signed a Preferred Supplier Agreement with Bruce Power under which the JV could be awarded similar contracts for the subsequent 5 Units. Each member of the joint venture will provide best-in-class resources to manage and execute the work, building on the project management and technical capabilities of SNC-Lavalin, the construction expertise of Aecon and the controls and planning depth of AECOM. Contact: SNC-Lavalin, email: media@snclavalin.com . of NuScale’s SMR design and the quality of its application. NuScale’s first plant will be operational in the mid-2020s. Contact: Mariam Nabizad, NuScale Power, telephone; (971) 470-2791, email: mnabizad@nuscalepower.com . Digital Partnering In a move that supports Bruce Power’s vision of providing reliable electricity to Ontario until 2064, Rolls- Royce has signed a memorandum of understanding to be Bruce Power’s digital partner. This new agreement expands the two companies’ current T-104 program, which has exceeded its value delivery targets since starting in 2017. Rolls-Royce and Bruce Power will now collaborate more deeply to blend their skills and use leading industrial technologies to improve the reliability and cost effectiveness of maintenance at Bruce Power’s eight Ontario units. Rolls-Royce technology finds new ways to improve the availability and efficiency of nuclear power stations, for example by identifying potential equipment failures before they occur. The Rolls-Royce team draws on its specialist R 2 Data Labs business unit, experts that have boosted value to their customers of jet engine and power systems using advanced data analytics, industrial artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. It develops data applications that unlock design, manufacturing and operational efficiencies, and creates new service propositions for customers and partners. Rolls-Royce has also agreed to be a charter partner to Bruce Power’s recently announced Ontario Nuclear Innovation Institute, leading on its artificial intelligence hub to build new skills in this developing area of advanced data science. Contact: Romain Desgeorge, Rolls- Royce, email: Romain.Desgeorge.cn@ Rolls-Royce.com . Corporation... ( Continued from page 13)