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retiring at the end of April 2014 after
nearly 17 years at the head of the NEA.
Mr. Magwood – who is currently one
of the five Commissioners of the US
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was
previously Director of Nuclear Energy
at the US Department of Energy and has
served as the Chair of the NEA Steering
Committee – will take up his duties on 1
September 1, 2014.
Safety Scholarships
The
World Association of Nuclear
Operators
(WANO) marked the 25th year
of its creation recently by establishing
£2,500 ($2,518) per student scholarships
for four students aged 25 and under who
are pursuing post-secondary (college)
degrees in nuclear power generation.
Interested students will be asked
to submit their biography and a 250-
word essay on the importance of making
safety their top priority while pursuing
a career in nuclear energy. An online
submission form will be added to www.
wano.info in September 2014 and essays
will be accepted until Dec. 31, 2014. All
submissions will be judged by members
of WANO’s Executive Leadership Team.
In addition to the scholarships,
the four winners will also be WANO’s
special guests at its 2015 Biennial
General Meeting in Toronto, where the
world’s top nuclear executives will gather
to reaffirm their commitment to WANO
and its mission.
Contact: Steve Cannon, telephone:
I&C Installation
AREVA Inc.
successfully installed
its TELEPERM
®
XS Platform digital
Instrumentation and Control (I&C)
system at a third nuclear reactor in the
United States.
Incorporating
lessons
learned
from the previous two installations, the
AREVA team successfully supported the
installation and testing of the third system
ahead of schedule with no safety issues.
AREVA’s TELEPERM
®
XS I&C system
is a fully digital system, used to monitor and
control the safety of a nuclear plant.
Contact: Dolline Hatchett, telephone:
NRC License
AREVA TN
has received a U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
license for the NUHOMS
®
MP197HB
Transport Package. The MP197HB is
the only transport package that meets
the rigorous NRC requirements to safely
transport high burnup used nuclear fuel
and has the highest heat-load capacity in
the industry of up to 32 kilowatts.
The MP197HB is also the first uni-
versal transport package that is licensed
for nine different canister types from var-
ious suppliers currently in use at utility
sites, includingAREVATN’s NUHOMS
®
high-performance dry shielded canisters
and the AREVA TN NUHOWS Radwaste
Canister. The NUHOMS
®
MP197HB
transport package is approved for use by
rail, truck or marine transport, and will be
available as early as 2015.
Contact:
Mary
Beth
Ginder,
telephone: (301) 841-1703, email:
ASME Certified
Doosan Vina
(Doosan Heavy
Industries Vietnam Co., Ltd located in
Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam) released
a statement that they are certified by
ASME as a supplier of nuclear products.
The certification process took more
than a year to complete and culminated in
December 2013 with a visit to Vietnam by
a team of seven ASME nuclear specialists
from the USA, Korea and Japan. They
came to Doosan Vina’s 110 hectare
industrial complex in the Dung Quat
Economic Zone of Quang Ngai Province to
survey the results of the ASME team’s year
long review of operations. Doosan Vina
is the first company in South-East Asia to
successfully complete the ASME nuclear
product fabrication certification process.
Doosan Vina was awarded six new
ASME Nuclear certificates, (NPT, NA,
NS, Site NPT, Site NA, Site NS) after
the 2013 nuclear survey. The company
also received four ASME non-nuclear
certificates, (U, U2, PP, S) which were
initially awarded by ASME in 2008.
“N” Stamp
Flowserve Corp
., a provider of flow
control products and services for the global
