Nuclear Plant Journal, May-June 2015 NuclearPlantJournal.com
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Utility,
Industry &
Corporation
Utility
Cooperation Agreement
Bruce Power
and Korea Hydro and
Nuclear Power (KHNP) have entered
into an agreement that will see the
two companies explore new areas of
collaboration with a particular focus on
enhancing nuclear safety, operational
performance and execution of large
projects such as refurbishment.
“As nuclear operators, Bruce
Power and KHNP are both committed
to the value of ‘Safety First’ and
achieve this high standard through
active collaboration, transparency and
continuous improvement,” said Duncan
Hawthorne, President and CEO of
Bruce Power. “This Memorandum of
Understanding provides a framework in
which Bruce Power and KHNP can build
on our successful working relationship
over the last 14 years.”
The agreement was signed in Seoul
as part of a nuclear Trade Mission to
South Korea being led by the nuclear
industry and Ontario government.
Contact: John Peevers, telephone:
Industry
New Awards
Building on the President’s energy
strategy and efforts to expand clean
energy innovation, the
Department of
Energy
awarded more than $5 million
to undergraduate and graduate students
pursuing nuclear engineering degrees and
other nuclear science and engineering
programs relevant to nuclear energy.
The awards include 59 undergraduate
scholarships and 32 graduate-level
fellowships for students at American
colleges and universities.
Each undergraduate scholarship
provides $7,500 to help cover education
costs for the upcoming year, while
the three-year graduate fellowships
provide $50,000 each year to help
pay for graduate studies and research.
Fellowships also include $5,000 to fund
a summer internship at a U.S. national
laboratory or other approved research
facility to strengthen the ties between
students and the Department’s energy
research programs.
Contact: telephone: (202) 586-4940.
Best of the Best
A teamof Exelon employees received
the nuclear energy industry’s highest
innovation award for implementing
a digital process for managing plant
maintenance work. The employees
were honored for their Electronic Work
Package (eWP), a digital process through
which work packages are created,
managed, monitored and stored. It
replaces paper-based work packages and
enhances worker safety, efficiency and
productivity during plant maintenance
work.
The B. Ralph Sylvia Best of the
Best Top Industry Practice (TIP) Award
was presented at the
Nuclear Energy
Institute’s
2015 annual meeting. The TIP
Awards recognize achievements in 12
categories—four reactor vendor awards
and eight process awards for innovation
to improve safety, efficiency and nuclear
plant performance—as well as an award
for vision, leadership and ingenuity.
The eWP digital work packages,
the first of its kind in the nuclear energy
industry, are efficient and user-friendly.
Personnel can easily view, revise
and approve the latest work package
information from any Exelon computer,
including tablets, in the field. They can
take photos and videos of field conditions
for documentation and to improve
communications and problem-solving.
Contact: telephone: 202.739.8000,
email:
Corporation
FLEX Storage Dome
American Business Continuity
Domes, Inc.
(“ABC Domes”), Dome
Technology, and Engineering System
Solutions (ES2), the U.S.-based alliance
that engineers, designs and builds disas-
ter-resistant, steel-reinforced concrete
domes, have completed the first of three
Severe Accident Management FLEX (a
strategy developed by the nuclear energy
industry to implement the Nuclear Regu-
latory Commission (NRC)’s Fukushima
task force recommendations quickly and
effectively) equipment storage buildings
for Southern Company at its Joseph M.
Farley Nuclear Plant in Columbia, Ala-
bama.
The 15,432 square foot dome is 138’
in diameter, 38' tall and features two
hardened equipment doors and a 2,500
square foot mezzanine for additional
equipment and component storage. The
project was awarded to ABC Domes
by Southern Company in December
2013, in accordance with the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission’s response to
the Fukushima Daiichi incident in Japan.
Exelon team won this year’s Best of the Best TIP Award for their
Innovative Electronic Work Package Process.
