May-June 2019 NPJ

14 NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, May-June 2019 nuclear technology; including the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) technology. The Forum also provides GIF member states a legal framework for collaborative research and development. Terrestrial Energy is currently the only private sector signatory in any of the six GIF reactor systems. Contact: Brian Smith, Terrestrial Energy, telephone: (416) 822-3130, email: bsmith@the-lanes.ca . LATITUDE™ Zetec Inc . announced an exclusive agreement with Structural Integrity Associates Inc. to integrate and promote its LATITUDE non-mechanized probe position and orientation encoding technology with the Zetec TOPAZ family of portable phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) instruments. The LATITUDE non-mechanized encoding system allows a single operator to perform an inspection by hand while producing a detailed digital record of the inspection at all times. The electronic control unit is specifically designed to work directly with the TOPAZ instrument, which allows the operator to control the LATITUDE system through the TOPAZ user interface. LATITUDE together with TOPAZ is a simple, portable, fully integrated solution that can eliminate the need for cumbersome and complex automated scanning technology. It can significantly reduce the time spent per inspection location and minimize the number of required operators. Contact: Stephen Petit, SiefkesPetit Communications, telephone: (425) 392- 2611, email: petit@siefkespetit.com . Corporation... ( Continued from page 13) DOE facilities that ARES ESD currently supports include Los Alamos National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Hanford, Sandia National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The energy services business also provides management and operations services for the DOE National Training Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has teamed with Parsons Corporation on a Defense Threat Reduction Agency contract to secure nuclear materials. Contact: Brenda Romero, Sargent & Lundy, telephone: (312) 269-2137, email: bromero@sargentlundy.com . Generation IV International Forum Terrestrial Energy has been admitted to the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), currently the only private sector company with this status. After two years of observer status at GIF molten salt reactor (MSR) meetings, Terrestrial Energy has become a signatory of the Memorandum of Understanding for Collaboration on the Molten Salt Reactor System, and now participates as a formal member of the Provisional System Steering Committee of the Molten Salt System. The GIF is a multi-national program established in 2001 to support co- operative research and development of next-generation nuclear reactor technologies, today referred to as “Generation IV” technologies. The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has acted as the Technical Secretariat of the Forum since inception. The GIF currently has 14 members, including Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, France, and Euratom. Its goals provided the basis to identify six advanced nuclear energy systems that represent the future of TOPAZ-LATITUDE. New Energy... ( Continued from page 10) Unit 3 of the South Korean plant became the first APR-1400 to begin supplying electricity to the grid in January 2016. Shin Kori 4 achieved first criticality - a sustained chain reaction - on April 11, 2019. KHNP said the 1340 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR) was connected to the grid at 5:40pm on April 22, 2019, marking the start of electricity supply from the unit. The power level of Shin Kori 4 will nowbe gradually increased to full capacity during the commissioning process. After a successful full-power run, the unit will be ready to begin commercial operation. KHNP expects this around mid-August 2019. The APR-1400 is a PWR designed by Korea Electric Power Company (Kepco) that KHNP said features improvements in operation, safety, maintenance and affordability based on accumulated experience as well as technological development. It supercedes the standardised 995 MWe OPR-1400 design, of which South Korea built 12. Construction of two further APR- 1400 reactors at Shin Kori - units 5 and 6 - began in April 2017 and September 2018 respectively. Unit 5 is scheduled to begin commercial operation in March 2022, with unit 6 following one year later. Two further APR-1400 units are under construction in South Korea as units 1 and 2 of the Shin Hanul site. A further four APR-1400s are under construction at Barakah in the United Arab Emirates, with the first of those units scheduled to begin operation in 2020. Source: World Nuclear News , website: www.world-nuclear-news.org