July-August 2019 NPJ

12 NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, July-August 2019 Utility, Industry & Corporation Utility MoU Yu Jianfeng, chairman of China National NuclearCorporation (CNNC), signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mohamed Al Hammadi, CEO of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 22, 2019. On the same day, Yu also signed a cooperation agreement on building a center of finance and investment with Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, Minister of State of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). According to the agreement, CNNC will cooperate with UAE companies in nuclear technology and build an overseas platform for all industrial operations, as well as for investment and financing. Before the signing of the MoU, Yu held a meeting with Hammadi. During the meeting, they discussed promoting cooperation between China and the UAE in nuclear technology. Yu said that CNNC has a complete nuclear industrial chain and is willing to share its expertise with countries who want to develop nuclear energy. For many years, CNNC has maintained close ties with its counterparts in the UAE and has carried out cooperation with them in the development of nuclear energy, the application of nuclear technology, engineering, capital operations, infrastructure, and training. Contact: CNNC, telephone: 86-10- 68512211, website: en.cnnc.com.cn Crystal River Duke Energy announced a plan to decommission its previously retired Crystal River Nuclear Plant in Florida by 2027 – nearly 50 years sooner than originally scheduled. The plan has no impact on customer bills. Duke Energy’s accelerated decommissioning plan is subject to approval by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Florida Public Service Commission. The process will take about a year to complete. If approved, decommissioning work will begin in 2020 and end in 2027. Duke Energy previously announced its decision to retire the plant on Feb. 5, 2013, and to decommission it by 2074. Decommissioning a nuclear plant is highly regulated and involves removing, packaging and shipping radioactive materials, such as the reactor vessel, to a licensed facility and then demolishing buildings. To perform the work, Duke Energy has contracted with Accelerated Decommissioning Partners, a joint venture between NorthStar Group Services and Orano USA. Contact: Heather Danenhower, Duke Energy, telephone: (352) 501-3700. LTMSA Nawah Energy Company (Nawah), the subsidiary created by Joint Venture partners Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) to operate and maintain the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, has today signed a Long Term Maintenance Services Agreement (LTMSA) with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), supported by KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering (KPS). Under the scope of the signed LTMSA contract, KHNP and KPS will provide maintenance services to support routine and outage maintenance activities of the four APR1400 units of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, under the leadership of Nawah and in strict accordance with the UAE’s nuclear energy regulator’s quality and safety standards. The KHNP consortium supported by KPS, will play a key role in providing maintenance services, including planning and execution, under the leadership of Nawah. KHNP and KPS will also provide highly-qualified manpower in the form of supervisory and management experts, as well as maintenance leadership, who will be deployed to support the safety and quality-led maintenance of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant. Under Nawah’s Leadership, KHNP will conduct testing, diagnostics, inspections,maintenance and replacement services, amongst others for both the nuclear and non-nuclear components of the Barakah plant. Contact: Nawah, telephone: 971 2 306 6666. Industry Plant Systems Design ASME recently approved development of a new standard for Plant Systems Design. The charter is: To develop, review and maintain a technology neutral standard for design of plant systems for nuclear, fossil and petrochemical, chemical, and hazardous waste plants and facilities. The standard provides processes and procedures for design organizations to: (a) integrate process hazard analysis in the early stages of design; (b) incorporate and integrate existing systems engineering design processes, practices and tools with traditional architect engineering design processes, practices and tools; and (c) to integrate risk informed probabilistic design methodologies with traditional deterministic design. The focus is to provide requirements and guidance for design processes, methodologies and tools that will provide safer and more efficient system and component designs with quantified safety levels. There are over 40 volunteers actively contributing to development of the Plant Systems Design standard. To create a truly technology neutral standard ASME needs additional volunteers to add expertise and diversity for all types of plants and facilities that have significant health and safety risk to the worker and the public. The greatest applicability of this standard will be for new plant design. The focus is to reduce costs of new plant design and construction. Contact: Ralph Hill, ASME, telephone: (724) 787-8755, email: hillr@ asme.org. Nuclear Technology Projects The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $49.3 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards for 58 advanced nuclear technology projects in 25 states. The awards fall under DOE’s nuclear energy programs called the Nuclear