January-February 2019 NPJ

Nuclear Plant Journal, January-February 2019 NuclearPlantJournal.com 17 enable the design of new equipment to be validated without recourse to physical mock-ups. Contact: Orano Group, telephone: 33 (0) 1 34 96 12 15, email: press@ orano.group. Used Fuel At the end of October 2018, Orano signed a contract for an important volume of business with the JAEA1 (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) regarding the preparation of shipments to France of 731 used fuel assemblies from the Fugen reactor in Japan. Orano will conduct all the technical preparatoryworks for the future shipments of 111 tonnes of nuclear materials planned to be carried out between 2023 and 2026, including the design and manufacturing of a fleet of transport casks which will meet national and international nuclear safety and security regulations. The contract also envisages studies to be carried out prior to the acceptance and recycling operations for the used fuel at the la Hague plant. Contact: Orano Group, telephone: 33 (0) 1 34 96 12 15, email: press@ orano.group. Backup Power Rolls Royce has signed a contract to provide its MTU diesel generators to provide back-up power to the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Rolls-Royce is using its broad in-house capability to deliver four generator sets; all instrumentation and controls; and full systems integration. This contract sits alongside another for the provision of Hinkley Point C heat exchangers and associated systems, which was agreed in December 2017. The diesel generators are supplied from Rolls-Royce business unit Power Systems; instrumentation and controls (I&C) systems from its Grenoble-based Hinkley Point C Generator. I&C business; and systems integration engineering from its Warrington and Derby-based nuclear teams. The generator systems, Type MTU 956 TB33 with 3600 kW power output each, will guarantee power to critical power station systems in the event of any unplanned outage of the site’s standing power supply. Each generator set includes all the auxiliary systems, tanks, coolers, exhaust and air intake systems, pumps, pipework, valves, starting systems, lubricating and fuel oil systems as well as the electrical power generator and all the instrumentation and control systems. Contact: Romain Desgeorge, Rolls- Royce, email: Romain.Desgeorge.cn@ Rolls-Royce.com. Fuel Fabrication Facility Centrus Energy Corp. has signed a new services contract with X Energy , LLC (X-energy) to proceed with the preliminary design of a facility to fabricate advanced nuclear fuel. The contract builds upon the companies’prior contract, signed in March 2018, to complete a conceptual design of the facility. Under the agreement, Centrus will provide X-energy with technical expertise and resources to support the preliminary design of a facility to produce X-energy’s uranium oxycarbide (UCO) tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel forms. This effort includes detailed nuclear criticality safety analysis, infrastructure design, and balance of plant support systems, as well as initial work on a license application for the facility. Centrus is also providing facility space to X-energy at Centrus’ Technology and Manufacturing Center in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where X-energy and Centrus employees are working together on the project. TRISO fuel forms can meet the requirements for the X-energy Xe-100 high temperature gas cooled reactor, as well as for other advanced nuclear reactor technologies being developed around the world. The services contract supports the companies’ previously announced joint effort to prepare a deployment plan for X-energy’s TRISO fuel technology; design a cost-effective, highly automated fuel manufacturing process line; and seek funding for a future commercial fuel production facility. Contact: Melanie White Lyons, X Energy, telephone: (301) 363-2839, email: mlyons@x-energy.com.