May-June 2018 NPJ

Nuclear Plant Journal, May-June 2018 NuclearPlantJournal.com 15 offered by the company to its electric utility customers.” The Framatome Fuel Business Unit develops, designs, licenses and fabricates fuel assemblies and associated services for its electric utility customers in France and internationally. 107 out of the 278 light water reactors (excluding VVERs) in operation worldwide use Framatome technology fuel. Framatome has delivered a total of 226,000 fuel assemblies to date. Contact: Framatome Press Office, telephone: 33 (0) 1 34 96 41 34, email: press@framatome.com . Fuel Supply Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) announced that GNF ENUSA Nuclear Fuel S.A. (GENUSA), a joint venture between ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas S.A. (ENUSA) and GNF, has been selected by Vattenfall to provide fuel reloads for the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant near Forsmark, Sweden. The new fuel supply contract awarded to GENUSA, which is majority owned by GNF, runs from 2020 through 2023 and includes a total of eight reloads of GNF2, a high-performance fuel assembly designed to deliver increased energy output while decreasing overall fuel cycle costs. The eight reloads comprise four reloads each at units 1 and 2, respectively. The first fuel delivery of GE design for Vattenfall dates from 1993. Since then, more than 2,500 fuel assemblies have fueled the Vattenfall reactors in Sweden. The assemblies, whose components are designed by GNF, will include the enhanced GNF2 spacer as well as the Defender™ PLUS debris filter that significantly improves the chance of stopping debris before it ever reaches the fuel assembly. Fuel for units 1 and 2, utilizing GNF- supplied components, will be fabricated by ENUSA in Spain at its Juzbado Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Plant. Since its incorporation in 1996, ENUSA has manufactured fuel sold by GENUSA to operators of boiling water reactors across Europe. Contact: Jon Allen, GNF, telephone: (910) 819-2581, email: jonathan. allen1@ge.com . Fuel BWRs Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) has been awarded a long-term contract by Entergy Nuclear to continue to fuel its boiling water reactors. The new fuel supply contract, valued at more than $250 million, runs from 2019 through 2031 and includes 10 reloads of GNF3. Entergy will be the first customer to take delivery of GNF3 in reload quantities. Based on advanced technology developed by GNF, the GNF3 fuel assembly is designed to offer customers improved fuel cycle economics, increased performance and flexibility in operation and further improve on the reliability of GNF’s previous product lines. GNF3 lead use assemblies have been operating in several U.S. nuclear power plants, including four lead use assemblies in Entergy’s River Bend Nuclear Station in St. Francisville, Louisiana since 2015. In 2019, Entergy’s River Bend nuclear facility will become the first plant in which GNF3 will be installed in reload quantities. GNF3 will be installed in reload quantities at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Port Gibson, Mississippi, in 2020. GNF has fueled Entergy’s Grand Gulf and River Bend reactors continuously since 2008. GNF3 is fabricated with GNF’s latest technology at the company’s state- of-the-art facility in Wilmington, North Carolina. Contact: Jon Allen, GNF, telephone: (910) 819-2581, email: jonathan. allen1@ge.com . Simulation Work GSE Systems, Inc. , a leader in real- time high-fidelity simulation systems, training/consulting and technology- enabled engineering solutions to the power and process industries, announced receipt of two contracts from important Chinese customers. The two contracts will commence during Q2 2018, and together have a total value that exceeds $4 million. The projects will continue over the next two years. Under one of the contracts, GSE will provide simulation technology and engineering services for delivery of a full scope high-fidelity nuclear power plant simulator. GSE has participated in the development and delivery of two other simulators for this customer. GSE and its partner will develop the simulator using GSE’s high-fidelity simulation platform and JADE™ software modeling suite, THEATRe, and REMARK advanced models. The simulator will be enhanced with severe accident simulation capability supported by GSE’s PSA-HD™modeling software. The JADE suite has been used to effectively meet the highest standard of simulation in the nuclear industry and used for simulators for all major nuclear plant designs, including: Pressurized and Boiling Water Reactors, Advanced Gas Reactors, Canadian CANDU Reactors, Russian VVER Reactors, High Temperature Gas Reactors and Small Modular Reactors. Under the other contract, GSE will provide its PSA-HD real-time severe accident modeling technology for the customer to apply to their Chinese designed CAP 1400 nuclear plant simulator at a nuclear power plant site. GSE’s PSA-HD tool combines the Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI’s) modular accident analysis code (MAAP) with GSE’s real-time High Definition Executive to enable training and analysis of beyond design basis events, a focus for the industry since the March 2011 accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant. The technology will improve both operator and support staff coordination, procedure development and response training in the unlikely event of an accident. PSA-HD, which applies to full scope simulators, and GSE’s desktop version Design EP®, have been implemented at more than 25 nuclear power and research organizations around the world for a variety of reactor types. Contact: Kalle Ahl, The Equity Group, Inc., telephone: (212) 836-9614, email: kahl@equityny.com . Full Scope Simulator L3 MAPPS has won a contract from ENGIE Electrabel to upgrade the Tihange Unit 1 full scope operator training simulator. The original simulator, developed by L3 MAPPS in cooperation with Tractebel ENGIE, was declared Ready For Training on March 4, 2016. The expansion project involves (Continued on page 37)