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New Energy 

Civil Nuclear 

Cooperation 

Remarks by President Barack Obama 

in Hradcany Square, Prague, Czech 

Republic on April 5, 2009: 

“To achieve a global ban on 

nuclear testing, my administration will 

immediately and aggressively pursue 

U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive 

Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). After more than 

five decades of talks, it is time for the 

testing of nuclear weapons to finally be 

banned. 

And to cut off the building blocks 

needed for a bomb, the United States will 

seek a new treaty that verifiably ends the 

production of fissile materials intended 

for use in state nuclear weapons. If we 

are serious about stopping the spread of 

these weapons, then we should put an end 

to the dedicated production of weaponsgrade 

materials that create them. That’s 

the first step. 

Second, together we will strengthen 

the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a 

basis for cooperation. 

The basic bargain is sound: Countries 

with nuclear weapons will move towards 

disarmament, countries without nuclear 

weapons will not acquire them, and all 

countries can access peaceful nuclear 

energy. To strengthen the treaty, we 

should embrace several principles. We 

need more resources and authority to 

strengthen international inspections. We 

need real and immediate consequences 

for countries caught breaking the rules or 

trying to leave the treaty without cause. 

And we should build a new 

framework for civil nuclear cooperation, 

including an international fuel bank, 

so that countries can access peaceful 

power without increasing the risks of 

proliferation. That must be the right 

of every nation that renounces nuclear 

weapons, especially developing countries 

embarking on peaceful programs. And 

no approach will succeed if it’s based on 

the denial of rights to nations that play by 

the rules. We must harness the power of 

nuclear energy on behalf of our efforts to 

combat climate change, and to advance 

peace opportunity for all people.” 

Clean Energy Park 

AREVA, Duke Energy, UniStar 

Nuclear Energy announced the start of 

negotiations to develop an EPR reactor 

for America’s first Clean Energy Park. 

AREVA will be coordinating the 

technical analyses needed to prepare the 

plant construction permit and licensing 

application which will be examined by 

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Duke will manage the project, 

provide project oversight and serve as 

the applicant for any NRC licensing 

applications. 

Unistar will provide its services and 

expertise for the pre-certification process 

of the EPR. It has also expressed 

interest in having a stake in the future 

nuclear power plants. 

The 3700-acre Clean Energy Park in 

which the plant could be built is located 

on a Department of Energy site in Piketon, 

Ohio. Duke Energy, AREVA, UniStar 

Nuclear Energy, USEC Inc. and the 

Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative 

announced that they have formed an 

alliance to pursue its development. 

Contact: Susan Hess, telephone: 

(434) 832-2379, email: Susan.Hess@ 

areva.com. 

Scalable Nuclear 

Reactor 

The Babcock & Wilcox Company 

(B&W) plans to deploy a North Americanmanufactured, 

scalable nuclear reactor. 

The B&W mPower reactor design is 

a passively safe Advanced Light Water 

Reactor (ALWR) with a below-ground 

containment structure. This optimized 

ALWR represents true Generation III++ 

nuclear technology that B&W believes 

can be certified, manufactured and 

operated within today’s existing U.S. 

regulatory, industrial supply chain and 

utility operational infrastructure. 

The new reactor will incorporate 

important design and operational attributes 

that will make it attractive for both 

existing nuclear operating utilities as well 

as other customers seeking to diversify 

their power generation portfolio. 

The scalable nature of nuclear plants 

built around the B&W mPower reactor 

would provide customers with practical 

power increments of 125 MWe to meet 

local energy needs within power grid and 

plant site constraints. 

B&W expects the use of proven 

ALWR design features, together with a 

passive safety philosophy, to minimize 

plant licensing challenges, enhance safety 

performance and contribute to reliable 

plant operation. 

The Nuclear Steam Supply System 

(NSSS) would be manufactured in 

existing B&W facilities in North America 

and then rail-shipped to construction 

sites. 

B&W has formed a new business 

unit, B&W Modular Nuclear Energy, 

LLC, to lead the development, licensing 

and delivery of B&W mPower reactor 

projects. 

Contact: Jud Simmons, telephone: 

(434) 522-6462, email: hjsimmons@ 

babcock.com. 

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Zachry Nuclear Engineering, Inc. and Zachry 

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construction expertise together with more 

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Zachry Nuclear 

“Zachry Nuclear is an exciting, emerging player 

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Manning, Zachry Nuclear chairman. “Zachry’s 

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The formation of Zachry Nuclear and the full 

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New Energy... 

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Netherlands Power 

Station 

DELTA, Netherlands, will launch 

the procedure that will eventually lead 

to the application for a permit to build 

a second nuclear power station near the 

existing one at Borssele, Netherlands. 

The site has been specifically earmarked 

for this purpose. The procedure will be set 

in motion by the submission of a start-up 

memorandum to the Ministry of Housing, 

Spatial Planning and the Environment. 

The nuclear power plant is expected to be 

operational in 2018. 

“We definitely need nuclear power, 

says DELTA’s CEO, Peter Boerma. By 

2020 all of us will be using more electricity 

than is generated. CO 2 

emissions too are 

increasing.” 

Contact: M. van Zuilen, telephone: 31 

118 88 20 41, email: persvoorlichting@ 

delta.nl. 

Nuclear Cooperation 

Agreement 

United Kingdom’s Foreign & 

Commonwealth Office Secretary, David 

Miliband, commented on the signing of 

a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement with 

Jordan on June 22, 2009. 

“The treaty between the UK and 

Jordan commits the UK to helping Jordan 

develop its civil nuclear program. If we 

are to move the world to a low carbon 

economy, then nuclear power needs to 

be an important part of the energy mix. 

But it needs to be developed in a safe and 

secure way, and the UK is pleased to be 

working with Jordan to achieve this.” 

Contact: telephone: 00 44 20 7008 

1500. 

American Energy Act 

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, 

Chairman of the House Republican 

Conference, made the following 

statement on the floor of the U.S. House 

of Representatives regarding House 

Republicans’ American Energy Act: 

“The American economy is hurting. 

Gasoline prices are on the rise, utility rates 

threaten to go higher and pose an even 

greater hardship on working families. The 

American people are looking for answers 

to these times and the challenges we face 

in energy. 

“Our energy solution focuses more 

on domestic exploration for oil and 

natural gas, a renewed commitment to 

build 100 nuclear power plants in the 

next 20 years, investments in renewables, 

alternative energy technologies and 

creating incentives for conservation. 

“The American people want energy 

independence and a cleaner environment 

without a national energy tax. The 

American Energy Act offered by House 

Republicans is the answer the American 

people are looking for.” 

Contact: Matt Lloyd, telephone: 

(202) 226-9000, email: matt.lloyd@mail. 

house.gov. 

STP 3&4 

NRG Energy’s nuclear development 

initiative, South Texas Project 3&4 (STP 

3&4), was selected as one of only four 

nuclear development projects advanced 

by the Department of Energy in its 

nuclear loan guarantee program (out of 18 

total applications). This initiative is being 

pursued through Nuclear Innovation 

North America LLC (NINA), the joint 

venture with Toshiba Corporation. 

Contact: David Knox, telephone: 

713.795.6106, email: David.Knox@ 

nrgenergy.com. 

2010 Budget Legislation 

The U.S. House Energy and Water 

Appropriations Subcommittee approved 

fiscal year 2010 budget legislation. 

The following is a statement from Alex 

Flint, the Nuclear Energy Institute’s 

senior vice president for governmental 

affairs, commenting on nuclear-related 

provisions in the spending bill: 

“NEI is heartened that the 

committee increased, by $51 million, 

the administration’s budget request for 

the Nuclear Power 2010 program that 

is a cost-shared, industry-government 

partnership designed to reduce the 

technical and regulatory uncertainties 

associated with construction of advanced 

nuclear power plant designs. Still, the 

committee designation of $71 million 

falls well short of the $121 million that the 

industry intends to invest in the program 

in fiscal 2010. We had expected DOE to 

match that commitment to complete this 

program. 

“NEI is also pleased that funding for 

next-generation nuclear plants would rise 

to $245 million, a 36 percent increase 

from the current year. We welcome the 

federal investment in next-generation 

nuclear plants as recognition of nuclear 

energy’s long-term role as a clean 

electricity source. 

“This budget plan, while it has a 

number of positive aspects, could better 

reflect the reality that nuclear energy is 

our nation’s only expandable large-scale 

energy source capable of producing 

electricity around the clock without 

emitting air pollutants or greenhouse 

gases. 

“The government can and should 

do more to encourage construction of 

the first group of the many new nuclear 

plants that our nation needs to stimulate 

economic growth, create jobs and help 

meet the threat of global climate change. 

Federal investment in nuclear energy has 

proven its worth many times over.” 

Contact: telephone: 202.739.8000. 

Calvert Cliffs 

The Maryland Public Service 

Commission (PSC) issued a final order 

approving an application for a Certificate 

of Public Convenience and Necessity 

(CPCN) for a proposed new nuclear 

energy facility at Calvert Cliffs in Lusby, 

Maryland. The application was submitted 

by UniStar Nuclear Energy, LLC, a 

strategic joint venture of Constellation 

Energy and EDF Group. 


On June 1, 2009 Bechtel Construction 

Company and the Building and 

Construction Trades Department (BCTD), 

AFL-CIO, the National Construction 

Alliance II and all affiliated international 

unions announced the approval of a 

Project Labor Agreement (PLA) for the 

construction of Calvert Cliffs Unit 3. 

The 1,600-megawatt reactor is 

proposed to be built next to Constellation 

Energy’s existing Calvert Cliffs facility 

in Southern Maryland, and would 

create up to 4,000 construction jobs and 

approximately 400 permanent jobs. 

Contact: Lori Vidil, telephone: (410) 

470-7433. 

University Program 

Awards 

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu 

announced nearly $9 million in awards to 

support the next generation of American 

nuclear energy development. Under the 

Nuclear Energy Universities Program, the 

Department of Energy will provide $2.9 

million in scholarships and fellowships to 

86 U.S. nuclear science and engineering 

(NS&E) students, and will offer more 

than $6 million in grants to 29 U.S. 

universities and colleges in 23 states. 

The Department is awarding 70 

scholarships to U.S. undergraduate 

students and 16 fellowships to U.S. 

graduate students. Each scholarship 

student will receive $5,000 to provide 

cost of his or her education for the next 

year. Fellowship recipients will receive 

$50,000 a year over three years to help pay 

for their graduate studies and research. 

Students are expected to receive their 

award funds by September 30, 2009. 

More information about the Nuclear 

Energy Universities Program, including a 

list of students selected for scholarships 

and fellowships and a list of selected 

universities, is available at http://www. 

nuclear.energy.gov/. 

Contact: telephone: (202) 856-4940, 

fax: (202) 586-5823. 

 


Reactor Pool Vacuum System Proves 

Beneficial 

Nuclear power generation plants have 

realized significant savings in critical path 

outage time, personnel radiation exposure 

and associated costs through use of the 

system in reactor pools during refueling 

outages. 

The idea for LUVS (Lightweight 

Underwater Vacuum System) came in 

the late 1990’s from a worker at the Palo 

Verde Nuclear Generating Station, which 

is the nation’s largest nuclear power 

plant. While at PVNGS, Troy Wilfong, 

a senior radiation protection technician, 

was frustrated with current technology at 

the time. Wilfong researched, prototyped 

and tested the system that won a Nuclear 

Steam Supply System TIP (Top Industry 

Practice) award and was granted a U.S. 

Patent in 2002. 

Troy Wilfong 

examines a LUVS 

Control Pendant 

Western Space and Marine, Inc. of 

Goleta, California refined the design and 

produces the commercial LUVS package 

that is now in use at many nuclear 

stations across the country. Exelon, 

Duke Energy, Florida Power and Light, 

Entergy, Dominion, Progress Energy and 

British Energy all have taken advantage 

of the LUVS technology to enhance their 

operations. 

The system is a compact, submersible 

vacuuming system that is much easier 

and faster to deploy than other vacuum 

systems. It has been used to recover 

objects ranging in weight from 2 grams 

to 1 kg, although it can retrieve much 

lighter and heavier objects. The LUVS 

can capture particles down to a size of 

100 microns, making it ideal for difficult 

decontamination tasks such as vacuuming 

rust, fuel particles, hot spots and crud 

deposits. 

The successful use of the LUVS has 

mitigated the disadvantages associated 

with using remote grippers and other 

existing vacuum systems. The system 

greatly reduces the possibility of dropping 

objects below the core barrel flow plate 

by lifting the objects into the vacuum 

system. The average time to deploy and 

recover foreign objects using the LUVS 

system has been about an hour or less, 

compared to up to 24 hours or more of 

critical path time using remote grippers 

or hose-connected underwater vacuum 

systems. Fewer man-hours expended 

results in less personnel exposure and 

lower outage expense. 

For more information contact WSM 

(805) 968-3831 or e-mail at luvs_info@ 

wsminc.com 

LUVS 

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Utility, Industry & Corporation 

Utility 

Climate Control 

DTE Energy Chairman and CEO 

Anthony F. Earley, Jr. said that for the U.S. 

to achieve ambitious targets of reducing 

carbon dioxide emissions, nuclear energy 

will be one of the most effective climate 

control strategies for the nation’s electric 

utilities. 

Speaking at The National Summit, 

a three-day meeting in Detroit featuring 

prominent business, government and 

academic leaders, Earley said that nuclear 

energy will play a crucial role not only 

in addressing global climate change, but 

also in meeting the country’s growing 

electricity needs. 

“Nuclear energy provides clean, 

reasonably priced electricity at extremely 

high levels of safety and reliability,” he 

said. “In 2008, the U.S. fleet of nuclear 

plants operated at just over 90 percent 

capacity - the highest level ever. Nuclear 

power has proven itself safe, clean, 

reliable and affordable. And that’s with 

a generation of plants designed in the 

1960s and 1970s.” 

Contact: telephone: (313) 235-5555. 

Power Uprates 

An approximate 38-megawatt increase 

in output at an Exelon Nuclear plant in 

June, 2009 launched a series of planned 

power uprates across the company’s 

nuclear fleet that will generate between 

1,300 and 1,500 megawatts of additional 

generation capacity within eight years 

without turning a spade of earth, Exelon 

Nuclear President and Chief Nuclear 

Officer Charles (Chip) Pardee said. 

The first of the new, carbon-free 

nuclear megawatts was officially confirmed 

following equipment upgrades at Exelon’s 

Quad Cities nuclear plant near Cordova, 

Illinois. Other uprate projects are 

underway and Exelon plans to have the 

full measure of new megawatts on the 

grid by 2017. 

Contact: Marshall Murphy, telephone: 

(630) 657-4206. 

Industry 

Transuranic Waste 

Cleanup of the nation’s defenserelated 

transuranic (TRU) waste has 

reached an important milestone. The 

first shipment of remote-handled (RH) 

TRU waste from Los Alamos National 

Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico 

arrived safely in June, 2009 at the US. 

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste 

Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in the 

southeast corner of the state. 

WIPP’s mission includes the safe 

disposal of two types of defense-related 

transuranic waste, contact-handled (CH) 

and RH. The waste consists of tools, 

rags, protective clothing, sludges, soil 

and other materials contaminated with 

radioactive elements that have atomic 

numbers greater than uranium. 

Contact: Roger Nelson, telephone: 

(575) 234-7213. 

Quality Assurance 

Guidance 

EPRI’s Joint Utility Task Group 

(JUTG), together with the American 

Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Nuclear 

Quality Assurance Committee, developed 

criteria that will be included in the 2009 

Addenda to ASME’s NQA-1 standard, 

and will subsequently be endorsed by 

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

The NQA-1 Standard will be the baseline 

quality assurance requirement for all new 

nuclear construction in the United States, 

and is currently the baseline quality 

assurance standard used by more than 

35% of the operating nuclear units in the 

United States. The NQA-1 2009 Addenda 

is scheduled for publication this summer. 

Working to a compressed schedule, 

the team developed criteria that are 

not only consistent with existing 

federal regulations and EPRI guidance 

originally developed for licensees, but 

are also designed to meet the needs of 

manufacturers and non-commercial 

power sectors of the industry (such as 

the Department of Energy) that employ 

the NQA-1 Standard to ensure effective 

quality assurance. 

Contact: Marc Tannenbaum, telephone: 

(704) 595-2110, email: mtannenbaum@ 

epri.com. 

Memorandum 

During a visit to Rome in May, 2009 

to participate in the G8 Energy Ministers’ 

Meeting, Japan’s Minister of Economy, 

Trade and Industry Toshihiro Nikai and 

Italian Economic Development Minister 

Claudio Scajola signed a memorandum 

of nuclear cooperation. 

The memorandum pledges that the 

two ministries would work together to 

develop nuclear power generation in the 

Republic of Italy. Italy had deactivated all 

its reactors two decades ago after a public 

referendum that banned the use of nuclear 

power in the country. 

The cooperative activities listed in 

the memorandum include: (1) exchanging 

information, (2) supporting preparation 

for and carrying out of development 

of nuclear generation, (3) developing 

human resources, (4) supporting nuclear 

public information activities and (5) other 

activities for the promotion of peaceful 

uses of nuclear energy to be decided by 

both sides. The term of the memorandum 

is initially three years, and is subject to 

extension upon mutual agreement. 

Contact: Japan Atomic Industrial 

Forum, Japan, website: www.jaif.or.jp/ 

english. 

Yucca Mountain Hearing 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s 

Atomic Safety and Licensing 

Boards (ASLBs) have granted a hearing 

on the Yucca Mountain license application, 

admitting eight petitioners as parties 

and a total of 299 contentions on safety 

and environmental issues. 

In a 153-page order issued, the 

ASLBs, designated as “construction 

authorization boards,” granted the 

petitions to intervene filed by the states 

of Nevada and California; the Nuclear 

Energy Institute; Nye County, Nevada; 

Clark County, Nevada; White Pine 


County, Nevada; Inyo County, California; 

and a joint petition filed by Churchill, 

Esmeralda, Lander and Mineral counties, 

Nevada. The Boards ruled that these 

petitioners demonstrated standing and 

raised at least one admissible contention 

regarding the application. 

Contact: telephone: (301) 415-8200, 

email: OPA.Resource@nrc.gov. 

Corporation 

Safety I&C Agreement 

AREVA and VNIIAES, Russia, 

signed a cooperation agreement in the 

field of safety Instrumentation and 

Control (I&C) systems for the first four 

VVER-type reactors to be built in Russia 

as part of the country’s new build fleet 

program. The agreement refers to two new 

1200 MWe reactors on the Novovoronezh 

and Leningrad existing sites, located 

respectively in the west and south-west 

of Russia. In the frame of this agreement, 

the companies signed a first engineering 

contract as well as a letter of intent (LOI) 

for the delivery of contracts to come. 

Contact: Julien Duperray, telephone: 

33 1 34 96 12 15. 

Transport Operation 

The largest transport operation in 

the history of Babcock Noell GmbH, 

Germany, has been successfully completed. 

The containment liner planned by Babcock 

Noell for a new-build nuclear power 

station was transported by sea from Poland 

to Finland. 

On May 4, 2009, the containment 

liner for the nuclear power station in 

Olkiluoto arrived on the construction site 

in good order. The component, including 

its transport substructure, weighs 350 

tons and is 15 m tall. The diameter of the 

dome is 47 m. 

In Finland, the 200 ton dome was 

lifted off the pontoon and the transport 

substructure using an enormous crawler 

crane before being carefully transported 

to the pre-assembly site in a 10-hour 

operation at a maximu speed of 30 m per 

hour, and lowered into place. 

The schedule of the milestones for 

loading, shipping, unloading and release 

for further work was stuck to exactly, so 

that the planned date for lifting the dome 

into place to complete the containment 

at the end of August 2009 is now almost 

within reach. 

Contact: telephone: 49 931 9030, 

fax: 49 931 9036000, email: info@ 

babcocknoell.de. 

Expansion 

In order to meet the continued 

demands of the power generation market 

and to position the company for growth 

within the southeastern United States, 

Burns and Roe Enterprises, Inc. 

announced that the firm is expanding their 

Southeastern operations and opening a 

new office to be located in Chattanooga, 

Tennessee. 

The opening of this office is the 

most recent step in a series of corporate 

strategic initiatives to increase the firm’s 

public, private and federal government 

service capabilities throughout the US 

and worldwide. Approximately 20 to 40 

employees are being hired or transferred 

to the Chattanooga office as part of this 

initial expansion. This staffing expected 

to increase over the next six months to a 

year as business opportunities materialize. 

Current plans call for the hiring of up to 

100 to 200 additional staff in the future. 

Contact: Donald Flood, telephone: 

(201) 986-4623. 

Acquisition 

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company, 

the flow control segment of Curtiss-Wright 

Corporation, has acquired the assets of 

Modumend, Inc. for $2 million. Modumend 

repairs and refurbishes obsolete power 

supplies for both foreign and domestic 

clients in the nuclear, fossil and non-power 

industries. It will be integrated into Curtiss- 

Wright Flow Control Company Nuclear 

Group within the Scientech business unit. 

Contact: Sharon L. Dey, telephone: 

(703) 286-2011, email: sdey@ 

curtisswright.com. 

Technology Corporation 

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control 

Company has acquired all of the stock 

of Northeast Technology Corporation 

(NETCO) and an exclusive worldwide 

license of the NETCO Snap-In 

technology for a total of $3.5 million 

in cash. NETCO provides engineering 

analysis, software development, 

laboratory testing services and in-plant 

testing, and specializes in spent fuel 

management for the nuclear power 

industry. NETCO will become part of 

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company 

Nuclear Group’s Scientech business unit. 

Contact: Sharon L. Dey, telephone: 

(703) 286-2011, email: sdey@ 


Health Physics Support 

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) 

has awarded DeNuke a competitively bid 

Basic Ordering Agreement for health 

physics support over the next year, with 

three one year options. The objective of 

the statement of work is to support ANL 

in carrying out specific work projects 

funded by the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. 

DeNuke will provide DOE Core Qualified 

Radiation Control Technicians (RCTs), 

RCT supervisors, and Health Physicists 

who will perform radiological safety 

monitoring, documentation, and related 

services for the duration of those ARRA 

funded projects. 

Contact: Fred Gardner, email: 

fgardner@denuke.com. 

Development Agreement 

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) 

announced it has signed a nuclear power 

plant development agreement with 

India’s top engineering and construction 

company, Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T). 

The agreement with L&T is an 

important part of GEH’s strategy to 

establish an extensive network of local 

suppliers to help build a future GEHdesigned 

Advanced Boiling Water 

Reactor (ABWR) power station in India. 

The power station is one of several being 

planned by India to increase the country’s 

nuclear generation capacity more than 

tenfold over the next two decades— 

from 4.1 GW to 60 GW by 2030. The 

nuclear power initiative is a key part of 

India’s broader plan to expand its energy 

infrastructure to meet the country’s 

surging demands for electricity. 

GEH’s MOU with L&T is one of 

the first preliminary nuclear technology 

trade agreements to be announced by a 

U.S.-majority owned company since the 

United States and India adopted a civilian 

nuclear energy accord in October 2008. 

Contact: Ned Glascock, telephone: 

(910) 675-5729, email: Edward. 

glascock@ge.com. 




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Certified Supplier 

L-3 MAPPS, Canada, was named an 

AREVA Certified Supplier for its nuclear 

power plant simulators and services. 

Michael Chatlani, vice president of 

marketing & sales for L-3 MAPPS Power 

Systems and Simulation, accepted the 

award from AREVA’s chief executive 

officer Anne Lauvergeon in a ceremony 

held in Washington D.C. on June 4, 

2009. 

The AREVA Certified Supplier seal 

of approval reflects 25 different criteria 

that AREVA requires of its key suppliers, 

such as: 

• the quality of the products and/or 

services, 

• the capacity to offer the best market 

price and production schedules, 

• dedication to project management, 

safety, security, and the protection of 

the environment, 

• development potential in R&D and 

innovation, the commercial approach 

and capacity to tackle new markets. 

Contact: André Rochon, telephone: 

514-787-4953. 

Simulator Order 

L-3 MAPPS, Canada, has won 

a second simulator order for China’s 

Hongyanhe nuclear power plant from 

Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power 

Co. Ltd. (LHNPC), the plant owner and 

operator. The second simulator is for 

operator training for Hongyanhe plant’s 

third and fourth units. Preparatory work 

on the simulator will start immediately, 

and it is expected to be in service in the 

spring of 2011. 

L-3 MAPPS is providing the process 

simulation and virtual back-up panels 

while China Techenergy Co. Ltd. (CTEC) 

supplies the non-safety Digital Control 

System (DCS), emergency control room 

panels and the staging facility in Beijing 

where the simulator will be integrated 

and tested prior to delivery to LHNPC. 

Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 

(MELCO) will provide the simulator’s 

safety DCS. As units 3 and 4 are twins 

of the first two units under construction 

at the Hongyanhe site, the plant process 

simulation will be based on the models 

for the Hongyanhe full scope simulator 

for units 1 and 2 which are already under 

development by L-3 MAPPS. 

Contact: André Rochon, telephone: 

514-787-4953. 

Asset Management 

UK government policy is encouraging 

a low carbon economy where nuclear 

energy along with other low carbon 

energy sources such as renewables, 

have a critical role to play in providing 

a balanced energy mix for the UK’s 

energy needs. The recent acquisition of 

British Energy by EDF provides a strong 

commitment to the nuclear new build 

program, and a need to demonstrate to 

stakeholders and the wider community, 

that current and planned nuclear assets 

are managed safely and appropriately. 

In a process lasting two years, British 

Energy benchmarked its business against 

the BSI Publicly Available Specification 

55 (PAS 55-1:2008), provided through 

Lloyd’s Register EMEA, United 

Kingdom, for asset management. Applying 

this specification at all of its nuclear 

power stations, British Energy is the first 

nuclear operator to successfully achieve 

this certification, an approach that has 

helped manage the return to service of its 

reactors at Hartlepool and Heysham. 

Contact: Jason Knights, telephone: 

44 (0)20 7423 1741, email: jason. 

knights@lr.org. 

New U.S. Subsidiary 

Robatel announced the formation of 

a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Robatel 

Technologies LLC, based in Roanoke, 

Virginia. 

Robatel Technologies LLC will 

target the U.S. commercial and federal 

nuclear markets with an initial focus on 

the Department of Energy MOX project 

located at the Savannah River site in 

Aiken, South Carolina. 

Robatel Technologies will initially 

offer design engineering and fabrication of 

nuclear fuel casks, glove boxes, modular 

hot cells, heavy shielded components and 

specialty turnkey installations associated 

with nuclear fuel or waste processing. 

Contact: Teo Grochowski, Jr., 

telephone: (540) 989.2878. 

Environmental 

Qualification Testing 

Scientech, a provider of Environmental 

Qualification services to the global 

nuclear power industry, announced its 

recent agreement with ATS (Assurance 

Technical Services, Inc.) to become the 

exclusive provider of harsh environmental 

qualification testing in support of Scientech’s 

Environmental Qualification Services. 

This agreement adds a specialized 

capacity to successfully meet the more 

extreme postulated accident requirements 

for new Generation III+ nuclear reactor 

designs currently being qualified. 

Contact: Tom Bernacki, telephone: 

(860) 409-0513, email: tbernacki@ 


Radiation Monitoring 

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced 

that its Radiation Measurement 

and Security Instruments (RMSI) business 

has completed its 12th annual radiation 

monitoring techniques training course 

outside of Kiev, Ukraine, and within the 

vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power 

plant. The seminar and workshop (May 

31-June 6, 2009) was designed to provide 

participants with the latest guidance 

on environmental, source, personnel and 

equipment monitoring in case of a nuclear 

or other radiological emergency. 

The session’s field exercise segment 

took place in the Exclusion Zone which 

is the 30-km (19-mile) area surrounding 

the site of the Chernobyl nuclear 

power reactor that experienced a major 

radiological disaster in 1986. 

Contact: Nicole Kelly, telephone: 

(440) 703-1511, email: Nicole.kelly@ 

thermofi sher.com. 

Waste Storage 

Waste Control Specialists LLC 

(WCS) announced that on June 8, 2009 

its Andrews County facility began storing 

low-level radioactive waste received 

from Studsvik, Inc., a Tennessee-based 

waste processor. The interim storage at 

WCS’ facility in Andrews County of this 

thermally processed Class B and Class C 

low-level radioactive waste will greatly 

reduce the risk and administrative burden 

of generators when compared to the use 

of multiple storage facilities across the 

United States. 

While the interim storage of the 

Studsvik material is authorized under 


WCS’ storage license, the Texas Low- 

Level Radioactive Waste Compact 

Commission (Compact Commission) 

must approve any permanent disposal 

of the material at the Compact waste 

disposal facility in Andrews. 

Contact: Rickey Dailey, telephone: 

(512) 708-8655. 

Vacuum System 

In April, 2009, Florida Power and 

Light took delivery of their third Western 

Space and Marine, Inc. (WSM) LUVS 

Lightweight Underwater Vacuum System. 

Bob Hanke of Florida Power and Light 

reports to WSM that the LUVS equipment 

is a very effective tool for general foreign 

object removal and especially in dry cask 

work. This fourth generation design will 

be used for training purposes at St. Lucy 

and Turkey Point facilities. 

Contact: Scott Millard, telephone: 

(805) 968-3831, e-mail at luvs_info@ 

wsminc.com 

AP1000 in India 

Westinghouse Electric Company 

will begin discussions with Nuclear 

Power Corporation of India Ltd., (NPCIL) 

with a goal of reaching agreement on the 

deployment of Westinghouse AP1000 

nuclear power plants in India. 

The announcement followed signing 

of a memorandum of understanding by 

Dr. S. K. Jain, Chairman and Managing 

Director of NPCIL, and Westinghouse 

President and CEO Aris S. Candris. In 

making the announcement, Dr. Candris 

said it is logical for the two companies 

to work together to further expand India’s 

already robust nuclear power industry. 

Contact: Vaughn Gilbert, telephone: 

(412) 374-3896, email: gilberhv@ 

westinghouse.com. 

Chief Information Officer 

Dr. Gerard Macioce has been 

appointed to the position of Chief 

Information Officer at Westinghouse 

Electric Company. Dr. Macioce 

previously served as the director, Systems 

Enterprise Integration for Nuclear Power 

Plants at Westinghouse. 

In his new role, Dr. Macioce will be 

responsible for the overall development 

and implementation of the IT strategic 

plan to support Westinghouse’s global 

operations. He will ensure that highpriority 

business initiatives are enabled 

with both strategic and cost-effective 

IT delivery systems and skilled 

professionals. 

Dr. Macioce holds a PH.D. in Information 

Systems and Communications. 

Dr. Macioce is a certified Project Management 

Professional and a member of 

Duquesne University’s Information Management 

Systems Advisory Board. 




N-Vision Winners 


announced its winning entries for its 

N-Vision Forms of Energy Contest. The 

High School winning video came from 

Butler Senior High School located in 

Butler, Pennsylvania, and was produced 

by the school’s 11th and 12th grade 

Television Production class. The Middle 

School winning video came from 

McKinley Middle School in Racine, 

Wisconsin. 

Administered through the company’s 

speaker’s bureau, N-Vision, the contest 

is designed to encourage young persons 

to think about energy in the context 

of worldwide political, economic and 

environmental realities. 

Specific guidelines can be found on 

the Contest Application on Westinghouse’s 

website at: www.westinghousenuclear. 

com and under the “Community” section/ 

Student Video Contest on Forms of 

Energy. 




Westinghouse Japan 


announced the formation of Westinghouse 

Electric Japan, a new organization 

that will provide a single focal point for 

all Westinghouse products and services 

manufactured, sold or procured in Japan. 

Westinghouse also announced that it has 

appointed Jack B. Allen, currently senior 

vice president of Westinghouse Electric 

Company, as president and CEO of the 

new entity. 

In making the announcement, 

Westinghouse President and CEO Aris 

Candris said the formation of Westinghouse 

Electric Japan is consistent with 

Westinghouse’s effort to build closer relationships 

with an expanding global customer 

base. 

Contact: Thomas Meston, telephone: 

( 412) 298-6350, email: mestontm@ 


Zachry Nuclear 

Engineering 

Zachry announces that Proto- 

Power Corporation, a leading nuclear 

engineering firm, has become Zachry 

Nuclear Engineering, Inc. with its full 

integration into the Zachry family of 

companies under the subsidiary, Zachry 

Nuclear, Inc. 

Zachry Nuclear Engineering will 

join Zachry Nuclear Construction, 

Inc. of San Antonio, to form Zachry 

Nuclear, combining 34 years of nuclear 

design experience and 85 years of power 

construction expertise. Together they 

will provide services from design to 

construction in one of the world’s most 

vital power industries. 

Zachry Nuclear Engineering will be 

managed by Mark B. Mills, president; 

Robert J. Atkisson, director, business 

development; Paul H. Collette, director, 

engineering; and Thomas F. McCarthy, 

director, projects. Kenneth A. Ewell, 

former president of Proto-Power, has 

been promoted to chief nuclear officer of 

Zachry Nuclear. 

Contact: Lydia Adams, telephone: 

(210) 588-6795, email: adamslr@zhi. 

com. 

 




New Products, Services & Contracts 

New Products 

Power Plant Control 

Alstom has launched ALSPA ® Series 

6, a new suite of power plant control and 

automation technology that uses the latest 

state-of-the-art technology to give power 

plant operators complete and efficient 

control of their plant – from individual 

equipment such as turbines, right through 

to the whole power station. 

The ALSPA ® Series 6 Control 

System takes advantage of Alstom’s 

extensive experience in power plant 

control, integrating the latest technologies 

for the benefit of the customer. ALSPA ® 

Series 6 encompasses all the operation, 

management, maintenance, automation 

and safety functions that a modern power 

plant needs. 

Central to Series 6 is ALSPA ® 

CONTROPLANTTM, the state-of-theart 

plant automation system, based on 

a flexible, modular and open real-time 

architecture (based on Ethernet Power 

Link) and designed in line with the trend 

toward increasing data centralisation. 

ALSPA ® CONTROPLANT TM can be 

used from small systems to large complex 

systems in power station or industrial 

applications to control, optimise and 

protect all types of power plants and their 

turbines – whether thermal, hydro or 

nuclear. 

Contact: Susanne Shields, telephone: 

33 1 41 49 27 22, email: susanne.shields@ 

power.alstom.com. 

Multi-Channel Analyzer 

The ORTEC ® business unit of 

AMETEK Advanced Measurement 

Technology (AMT) has introduced the 

DigiDART-LF, a portable “SMART” 

multi-channel analyzer (MCA) for 

sodium iodide (NaI TI), lanthanum 

bromide (LaBr 3 

:Ce) and other scintillation 

detectors. 

The rugged, lightweight DigiDART- 

LF is completely operable without a PC. 

It can perform a variety of measurements 

directly in the field or on site and store 

a large amount of spectra in an internal 

memory. Its built-in backlit LCD display 

and control keypad create a live display 

as data is acquired. An advanced, lowpower 

design provides the DigiDART-LF 

with digital stability, high data throughput 

and up to twelve hours of operational life 

from a single battery charge. 

Contact: Susie Brockman, telephone: 

(865) 483-2124. 

Spectrometer 

ORTEC® announced the release 

of the DigiBASE-E, an all-in-one highperformance 

Digital Gamma Spectrometer 

for scintillation detectors, built into a 

standard 14-pin photomultiplier tube 

base. 

The DigiBASE-E can operate 

at ultrahigh count-rates, consuming 

very low power. High maximum 

throughput is available through the use 

of a new trapezoidal filter with lower 

dead-time per processed pulse. The 

instrument features an Ethernet (PoE) 

communications interface from which 

it can be conveniently powered, making 

network implementation simple. 

The DigiBASE-E can be used in a 

wide variety of radiation spectroscopy 

applications and features both the 

conventional pulse height analysis mode 

of data acquisition as well as the powerful 

list mode. Flexibility in data acquisition 

gating logic and the provision of a 32-bit 

counter channel makes the DigiBASE-E 

a drop-in solution for a wide variety of 

application situations. 

Contact: Susie Brockman, telephone: 

(865) 483-2124. 

Air Purifying Respirator 

UniTech Services Group added 

the MAXAIR Powered Air Purifying 

Respirator (PAPR) to its line of nuclear 

protection products. MAXAIR provides 

superior respiratory protection anywhere 

workers may be exposed to heat stress 

or contaminated air. Its design provides 

complete protection from airborne 

particulates and splashes. UniTech is the 

exclusive authorized nuclear industry 

distributor of the NIOSH-approved 

powered air-purifying respirator. 

The MAXAIR system features a 

helmet, disposable HE filter, filter cover, 

and choice of disposable cuff or shroud. 

LED visual safety indicators display realtime 

information on remaining battery 

life and airflow. Compared to traditional 

PAPRs, MAXAIR is 33% lighter, making 

it more comfortable to wear for long 

periods of time. Its patented hose-free 

design allows for increased freedom of 

movement and prevents workers from 

getting caught or snagged on objects in 

the work area. 

Contact: Gregg Johnstone, telephone: 

(413) 543-6911, email: GJohnstone@ 

unitech.ws. 

Services 

Design & Construction 

Tetra Tech experts are involved 

with the design and construction of more 

than 20 nuclear power facilities. Current 

staff includes engineers, consultants, and 

construction and procurement specialists 

experienced with the unique requirements 

of the industry. Tetra Tech has the 

proven tools and processes to support 


Quality 

Excellence 

all levels of nuclear quality assurance 

services including an approved ASME 

NQA-1 Quality Program and an ASME 

Section III, Division 1 and Division 3 

Quality Program supporting its N-Stamp 

Certificates. 

Tetra Tech is a provider of nuclear 

power plant re-licensing services in 

the United States, a provider to both 

utilities and other engineering firms in 

the preparation of license applications for 

new nuclear power plants. 

Contact: Talia Starkey, telephone: 

(626) 470-2332, email: talia.starkey@ 

tetratech.com. 

Contracts 

Steam Generator 

Replacement 

AREVA, teaming up with Korean 

contractor, DAELIM Industrial Co., 

Ltd., has been awarded a contract by 

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. 

(KHNP), South Korean nuclear power 

plants operator to replace the 6 steam 

generators on the Ulchin 1 & 2 NPPs 

during outages planned for 2011 and 

2012. 

For the purposes of this project, 

a consortium has been set up, jointly 

by AREVA and DAELIM. AREVA as 

Original Equipment Manufacturer will 

lead the consortium and perform the 

primary system and licensing operations 

in cooperation with KHNP and Korea 

Power Engineering Co., Inc. (KOPEC). 

DAELIM will implement all the 

secondary and local activities associated 

with this project. 

Contact: Julien Duperray, telephone: 

33 1 34 96 12 15. 

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Simulator Contracts 

The THOR engineers at Corys 

Thunder, Inc. (CTI) are keeping busy 

with several new Reactor Coolant 

Systems (RCS) and secondary plant 

upgrade projects. Duane Arnold and 

Columbia nuclear plant simulators had 

previously installed the THOR advanced 

thermal hydraulics models for the primary 

system. Both have now contracted CTI to 

extend the high fidelity THOR models to 

encompass the secondary plant, including 

the main steam, turbines, condenser, 

condensate, and feedwater systems. The 

Peach Bottom and Robinson simulators 

have awarded CTI a contract for upgrading 

the primary system models with THOR. 

Seventy percent of the nuclear plant 

simulators in the U.S. are now running 

THOR for the primary and/or secondary 

systems. The THOR models are the most 

widely installed and most thoroughly 

tested models in the industry. 

Contact: Jody Ryan, telephone: 

(912) 729-1502, email: jody.ryan@ 

corysthunder.com. 

Actuator Contract 

Enertech, a business unit of 

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company, 

has signed a contract with L.Bernard, 

France, a manufacturer of nuclear 

qualified electric actuators. As part of 

this agreement, Enertech will promote 

and distribute L.Bernard actuators for the 

North American nuclear power market. 

L.Bernard’s first success in the U.S. 

nuclear power market was the supply 

of electric actuators for the Shaw-Areva 

MOX project in South Carolina. 

Contact: Tom Schell, telephone: (714) 

528-2301, email: tschell@curtisswright. 

com. 

Steam Dryer 


has been awarded a contract to design, 

fabricate and install a new steam dryer 

for Xcel Energy’s Monticello Nuclear 

Generating Plant, a single-unit GEdesigned 

Boiling Water Reactor (BWR). 

To execute this project, Westinghouse 

will employ its global BWR engineering 

workforce at multiple locations, as well as 

at Toshiba Corporation, Westinghouse’s 

majority owner, in Japan. 




 

G.D. BARRI & ASSOCIATES, INC. 

You may never have heard of G.D. Barri & 

Associates, Inc. (Barri) but chances are a 

Barri employee has worked at your power 

plant or facility. Often, Barri provides 

services through a General Contractor 

or A&E firm that is contracted directly 

to power utilities. Barri quietly supports 

clients whose customers may be unaware 

of our participation. 

Maybe it is time to take a closer look at 

Barri. 

"Let Barri Be Your Prime Staff Support 

Provider" 

Nearly 20 years of services, we must be 

performing to our clients' expectation! 

Corporate Office: (623) 773-0410 

E-Mail: rick.duff@gdbarri.com 

Website: www.gdbarri.com 

Offices in AZ, TN, PA & NY 

NPTS, Inc. 

an Engineering, Design, and 

Construction Management firm has 

current and anticipated openings for 

the following positions: 

• Licensing, USAR & Regulatory 

Engineers 

• Engineering Design (All Disciplines) 

• Sr. Project Managers (All Disciplines) 

• Sr. Project Planners (All Disciplines) 

• Power Upgrade Project Engineers 

• Construction Management, Planners, 

Schedulers, Estimators 

• Resident Engineers (All Disciplines) 

• Operations Support Engineers 

• Operations Training Instructors 

• Procurement Specialists & Expeditors 

• Start-up & Commissioning Engineers 

For Power Uprates, New Builds, Life 

Extension, Upgrades, Modification and 

Maintenance Projects 

Please forward Resumes to: 

NPTS, Inc. 

2060 Sheridan Drive 

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1. Losses of Offsite Power at U.S. 

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Meeting & Training Calendar 

1. Health Physics Forum, August 16-19, 

2009, Laguna Cliffs Marriot, Dana 

Point, California. Contact: Ralph 

Andersen, Nuclear Energy Institute, 

telephone: (202) 739-8111, email: 

rla@nei.org. 

2. 14 th International Conference on 

Environmental Degradation of 

Materials in Nuclear Power Systems, 

August 23-27, 2009, Virginia Beach, 

Virginia. Contact: American Nuclear 

Society, telephone: (708) 352-6611, 

email: allen@engr.wisc.edu. 

3. Nuclear Power Probabilistic Risk 

Assessment (PRA), August 25-26, 

2009, Chicago, Illinois. Contact: 

Amber Rhodes, Electric Utility 

Consultants, Inc., telephone: (303) 

770-8800, fax: (303) 741-0849. email: 

arhodes@euci.com. 

4. China International Nuclear Power 

Industry Expo 2009, September 2-4, 

2009, China International Exhibition 

Center, Beijing, China. Contact: 

Winder Wang, Beijing Qifa Exhibition 

& Service Co. Ltd, telephone: 86 10 

85863866, email: winderwang@163. 

com. 

5. 8 th Global Congress on Nuclear Fuel 

Cycle: Sustainable Options and 

Industrial Perspectives GLOBAL 

2009, September 6-10, 2009, Paris, 

France. Contact: Sylvie Delaplace, 

SFEN, telephone: 33 0 1 53 58 32 16, 

email: sdelaplace@sfen.fr. 

6. Global 2009 & Top Fuel 2009, 

September 6-11, 2009, Paris, France. 

Contact: Sylvie Delaplace, SFEN, 

telephone: 33 (0) 1 53 58 32 16, email: 

global2009@sfen.fr. 

7. Nuclear Power Symposium Europe, 

September 14-17, 2009, Aix en 

Provence, France. Contact: Amber 

Rhodes, Electric Utility Consultants, 

Inc., telephone: (303) 770-8800, fax: 

(303) 741-0849 email: arhodes@euci. 

com. 

8. PLIM+PLEX 2009, September 29- 

30, 2009, Chicago, Illinois. Contact: 

VIB Events, telephone: 44 (0) 207 

753 4268, email: events@vibevents. 

com. 

9. Licensing Information Forum, October 

5-6, 2009, Westin Alexandria, Alexandria, 

Virginia. Contact: Michael Schoppman, 

Nuclear Energy Institute, telephone: 

(202) 739-8111. 

10. “Facility Decommissioning” Training 

Course, October 5-7, 2009, SpringHill 

Suites Virginia Beach Oceanfront, 

Virginia Beach, Virginia. Contact: 

Lawrence Boing, Argonne National 

Laboratory, telephone: (630) 252- 

6729, email: lboing@anl.gov. 

11. Electric Power Research Institute 

International Decommissioning and 

Radioactive Waste Management 

Workshop, October 6-8, 2009, 

Hamburg, Germany. Contact: email: 

lnelson@nycap.rr.com. 

12. Nuclear Manufacturing Outreach 

Workshop, October 8, 2009, Rosen 

Shingle Creek Resort, Orlando, 

Florida. Contact: Carol Berrigan, 

Nuclear Energy Institute, telephone: 

(202) 739-8050, email: clb@nei.org. 

13. The 12 th International Conference 

on Environmental Remediation and 

Radioactive Waste Management, 

October 11-15, 2009, Liverpool Arena 

and Convention Centre, UK. Contact: 

website: http://www.icemconf.com/ 

14. International Symposium on Nuclear 

Energy- SIEN 09, October 12-16, 

2009, Bucharest, Romania. Contact: 

Nuclear Energy Romanian 

Association, telephone: 40 21 0203 82 

53, email: mstiopol@nuclearelectrica. 

ro. 

15. International Seminar on Nuclear Fuel 

Cycle 2009, October 12-23, 2009, 

Saclay, France. Contact: European 

Nuclear Education Network 

Association Centre , telephone: 33 1 

69 08 97 87, email: sec.enen@cea.fr. 

16. International Conference on Integrated 

Radioactive Waste Management in 

Future Fuel Cycles, October 25-29, 

2009, Charleston, South Carolina. 

Contact: Dirk Gombert, Idaho 

National Laboratory, telephone: 

(208) 526-4624, email: Dirk. 

Gombert@inl.gov. 

17. ETRAP- Education and Training 

Radiation Protection, November 8-11, 

2009, Lisbon, Portugal. Contact: 

European Nuclear Society, telephone: 

32 2 505 30 54, fax: 32 2 505 39 02, 

email: etrap2009@euronuclear.org. 

18. 2009 ANS Winter Meeting and 

Nuclear Technology Expo, November 

15-19, 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, 

Washington, D.C. Contact: American 

Nuclear Society, telephone: (708) 

352-6611. 

19. “Facility Decommissioning” Training 

Course, November 16-19, 2009, 

Tuscany Suites & Casino, Las Vegas, 

Nevada. Contact: Lawrence Boing, 

Argonne National Laboratory, 


lboing@anl.gov. 

20. Nuclear Industry, China 2010: The 

11 th China International Nuclear 

Industry Exhibition, March 23-26, 

2010, Beijing, China. Contact: Lin 

Yi, Beijing International Exhibition 

and Economic Relations & Trade 

Association, Inc., telephone: 0086 

10 6526 8150, 65260852, email: 

linyinic@126.com. 

21. European Nuclear Conference, May 

30-June 3, 2010, Barcelona, Spain. 

Contact: European Nuclear Society, 

telephone: 32 2 505 30 54, fax: 

32 2 505 39 02, email: enc2010@ 

euronuclear.org, website: www. 

enc2010.org. 

22. 2010 American Nuclear Society 

Topical Meeting and Decommissioning, 

Decontamination, & Reutilization and 

Technology Expo, August 29-September 

2, 2010, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Contact: 

Teri Ehresman, telephone: (208) 526- 

7785, email: Teri.Ehresman@inl.gov. 


Acting today preserves tomorrow. 

Congratulations to our Exelon Nuclear teams for their commitment 

to industry innovation and environmental leadership. 

In 2009, Exelon Nuclear was recognized with the following Top 

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Nuclear Training Process, Vision and Leadership, Operate Plant 

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Bedrock of U.S. Energy Security 

By Michael Wallace, Constellation 

Energy. 

1. What has been labor’s support in 

building Calvert Cliffs unit 3 and other 

EPR nuclear power plants? 

Labor has become a valuable partner 

in our efforts to build the next wave of 

nuclear plants. They are part of a broader 

effort to create home-grown jobs that 

will help us rebuild our nation’s nuclear 

manufacturing infrastructure. Earlier 

this year, we congratulated Bechtel 

Construction Company, our constructor, 

on its Project Labor Agreement (PLA) 

with the building trades unions to provide 

labor for the Calvert Cliffs 3 project in 

southern Maryland. The PLA serves as 

a framework for future UniStar EPRs. 

The intent is to deploy labor on the first 

unit, establish the tools and the training 

and the qualifications, and then replicate 

it exactly, not only by process but by 

people. 

We really focused on getting craft 

labor early on about three years ago. Labor 

has provided important political support 

for us with federal loan guarantees. I 

can’t say enough about the efforts they 

made a year and a half ago supporting the 

$18.5 billion in loan guarantees. I heard 

labor leaders talked to Congress directly 

about how important a nuclear plant was 

going to be, and to be frank, members 

of the Congress listened to labor leaders 

more than to any CEO. I’m very happy 

with how all that’s come together. Loan 

guarantees are probably the most critical 

issue we’ve worked on with labor. Some 

of the things we did 25 years ago at 

Braidwood nuclear plant in Illinois are 

approaches that are revving up again 

this time around. The building trades in 

general have significantly upgraded their 

training programs and their journeymen 

requirements. That’s the number one 

issue. 

An interview by Newal Agnihotri, Editor, 

Nuclear Plant Journal at the Nuclear 

Energy Institute's Nuclear Energy 

Assembly in Washingtion, D.C. on May 

19, 2009. 

Michael Wallace 

Michael Wallace is vice chairman and 

COO of Constellation Energy, and 

chairman of UniStar Nuclear Energy, 

a strategic joint venture between 

Constellation Energy and the EDF 

Group, an energy market leader in 

Europe. 

Mr. Wallace has a Bachelor of Science 

degree in electrical engineering from 

2. What is the status of required permits 

from the state of Maryland? 

The Maryland Public Service 

Commission (PSC) approved our state 

permit in late June, and it addresses 

all the relevant issues -- economic and 

environmental, air and water. This was 

a significant milestone for us – very 

important. The approval came about 18 

months after we filed our application, 

and I know we were very encouraged by 

the overwhelming support during public 

hearings conducted by the PSC. 

3. How will your plants be fi nanced? 

Federal loan guarantees are critical to 

our proposed Maryland reactor and we’re 

pleased the Department of Energy has 

accepted us as one of the four prospects 

for loan guarantees. A lot of effort went 

Marquette University and a Master 

of Business Administration degree 

from the University of Chicago, with a 

specialization in fi nance. He also served 

as a naval offi cer in the U.S. Navy 

nuclear submarine force. 

He is a member of the National 

Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) 

which advises the President on matters 

related to homeland security, chairman 

of the Nuclear Sector Coordinating 

Council under the Department 

of Homeland Security’s National 

Infrastructure Protection Plan, director 

of Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited 

(NEIL), and a member of Marquette 

College of Engineering’s National 

Advisory Council. 

He is active in a variety of boards 

and organizations, including those 

associated with Boy Scouts of America, 

Big Shoulders Fund of Chicago, 

Catholic Charities of Maryland, and 

Ocean Race Chesapeake. 

into it. The AREVA, Bechtel, ALSTOM 

and UniStar team all worked very closely 

together for the loan application. So we 

feel pretty good about how that process is 

moving forward. Before long we will be 

in a position to talk more publicly about 

how we are getting full financial support, 

how we plan to leverage the DOE loan 

guarantee by using export credit agency 

backing. 

UniStar will be the owner of Calvert 

Cliffs 3. UniStar is 50 percent EDF, 

50 percent Constellation so the equity 

will be 50 percent Constellation and 50 

percent EDF. 

We’d like to get a conditional loan 

guarantee commitment from DOE by the 

end of 2009 so we can move forward and 

break ground and begin preliminary site 

work. 


4. How is Constellation planning to 

bring “trade” workers due to the current 

shortage of skills for construction of 

nuclear power plants? 

We are having a lot of communications 

about the need for workers at a skilled 

level, such as the electricians, plumbers, 

pipefitters, sheet metal workers, and other 

skilled workers. It’s a very special trade 

that’s needed for those types of activities. 

The jobs are 3-5 years long. They’re wellpaying 

jobs and there is good reason this 

is going to be a natural attraction. We’ll 

need robust training programs to make 

sure interested parties are trained to do 

the work. I think a good pipefitter welder, 

nuclear grade, is going to be making 

more money than a degreed engineer 

for probably a decade because there is 

going to be such a shortage and it’s going 

to take a particular skill set. So I think 

once that starts it’s too difficult to recruit 

people just on words, but once the project 

starts and the jobs are real I think they 

will come really fast. 

What we’re doing in particular -- 

many other companies are doing the same 

thing -- we’ve established relationships 

with local high schools to recruit students 

who don’t really want to go to college so 

we can bring them right into the trade. 

We do it with both our fossil and nuclear 

plants. So a relationship is established 

with the local schools. Some of those kids 

graduate and go to work in the plant and 

they give feedback to the kids that are a 

class or two behind in school that it’s a 

good place to work, that they get training, 

it’s a well paying job, and it’s a great 

environment. It promotes the value of 

trade; not everyone needs to go to college 

to do very well in life. We’re doing that in 

New York and we’re doing that in Calvert 

County right now. 

5. What is the base plant for EPRs to be 

constructed in the United States? 

The EPR being built by EDF in 

Flamanville, France is our base plant. 

Because EDF is our partner, we have a 

direct transparent data transfer of all of 

the Flamanville drawings, analysis and 

construction experience. Everything 

about Flamanville is directly transferred 

to UniStar for consideration of how we 

replicate it. In addition, we expect to 

reap the benefit of four EPRs that will 

be operating ahead of us -- Olkiluoto in 

Finland and two in China. It’s to their 

benefit as well as ours to get a transfer of 

all the lessons learned from Flamanville. 

I’d like to think I know a little 

bit about nuclear plant construction 

because at Braidwood from 1982-1988, 

I was the executive overseeing design 

and construction, and we saw some 

construction techniques that I had never 

seen before. EDF, because they never 

stopped building nuclear plants, they 

kept getting a little better every time they 

got to the next plant. That is the closest 

real-time optimization of nuclear project 

construction that I think we can have. It’s 

not a theoretical experience that we’re 

drawing on. In fact, some of the senior 

people at the Flamanville site, I expect 

are going to be at our Calvert Cliffs site 

when it’s under construction to bring 

great added experience. So we’re hoping 

to optimize how we do Calvert Cliffs by 

drawing heavily on Flamanville. 

6. What efforts (design or construction) 

are under way for Calvert Cliffs? 

The UniStar team right now is about 

20 percent EDF people who have come 

over from France and they are working 

in Baltimore, Maryland full time. So, we 

don’t just get data transfer, we actually 

have people who are here working on 

developing the plant. The main thing right 

now of course is engineering, project 

management, and licensing. Once we get 

to construction, we want some of these 

individuals who were personally involved 

in the construction of Flamanville to be 

involved in the construction of Calvert 

Cliffs because that’s the best way to 

get data transfer. When it comes to 

operations, there is probably a little less 

transfer that we get because the regulatory 

framework that we operate under here 

with the NRC is a little different than 

what the French use. So we’ll have 

systems and procedures that we use but 

the details, all the licensing individuals 

need to be U.S. citizens, so there will be 

less EDF involvement in operation. EDF 

will have heavy involvement in design, 

construction, and testing. 

7. How is the political support for 

Calvert Cliffs unit 3? 

Steny Hoyer, majority leader of the 

U.S. House, is from Calvert County, and 

Calvert Cliffs is in his district. You can’t get 

a more direct connection than that. Then 

when you come to the state side, a year 

ago when the governor, Martin O’Malley, 

was at Calvert Cliffs and he held his press 

conference he said new nuclear at Calvert 

Cliffs 3 is a necessity for clean and reliable 

energy, so we have good support from the 

governor. We have good positioning with 

the leadership in Congress. We think the 

political leadership is going to continue to 

come. We also enjoy strong support from 

Maryland’s legislative leaders and the 

Calvert County Commissioners. We’ve 

been through our hearings already, both 

the state hearing and NRC hearing, and 

there has been no significant intervention 

that we’ve had to deal with at all. All of 

the public and political support seems to 

be pretty solid. 

8. Concluding comments? 

We’ve gone through a period where 

we were unintentionally competing 

with each other, competing over loan 

guarantees, wondering how much is 

going to be there. Now we have to get in 

a mode where we are really collaborating, 

really cooperating. The first four plants 

constructed have to be done right because 

they will set the stage for whether we 

have a renaissance or a fizzle. I think it’s 



Nuclear Renaissance is Alive 

By Michael Kansler, Entergy Nuclear. 

1. How has Entergy applied innovation 

technology to ensure safety and effi cient 

operation of its nuclear power plants? 

At Entergy, we have created a special 

department for nuclear operations called 

the Innovations Group. Working under 

Donna Jacobs, our senior vice president 

of planning and development, the 

Innovations team members go out to the 

broader industry and find what technology 

is available to enhance safety, reliability 

and cost effectiveness in our operations. 

Here is one example: smart signal 

on-line monitoring technology. This 

technology looks at advanced pattern 

recognition for all the plant data parameters 

in your plant process computer so you can 

easily understand if this plant is running 

at peak performance or not. You can tell 

plant operators to get on top of a specific 

issue that can be identified earlier with 

smart signal so that it can be addressed 

in most cases before equipment failure 

occurs. I think broadband technology is an 

underlying infrastructure that will be very 

important as we measure the performance 

parameters remotely. Our Innovations 

Group is helping find ways to manage our 

plants safely and understand new ways to 

operate plants most effectively. 

We’re trying to stay ahead in what’s 

happening in technology to help our 

plants run at top levels. We have a lot of 

ideas and irons in the fire. At Entergy, 

we like to pilot innovations at one plant 

then take best practices to the rest of the 

facilities in the fleet. It’s really starting to 

take off. 

On the fuel side we do a lot of 

innovative work with the major vendors. 

GE is providing all the fuel for our BWRs; 

we are upgrading to the latest fuel design; 

and, in addition, GE has strong analytical 





19, 2009. 

Michael R. Kansler 

Michael R. Kansler is the President, 

CEO and Chief Nuclear Offi cer of 

Entergy Nuclear, responsible for 

operations and management of nuclear 

plants located throughout Arkansas, 

Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, 

Mississippi, Nebraska, New York and 

Vermont. 

techniques for monitoring the core during 

the cycle. GE will tell you when they see 

something happening, they don’t like 

and how to manage it most effectively in 

the cycle from a safety and operational 

standpoint. We value that working 

relationship. 

2. What is the status of plant license 

renewals and plant uprates of Entergy’s 

units? 

Plants where licenses have been 

renewed are Arkansas Nuclear One 

Units 1 and 2, James A. Fitzpatrick in 

New York and Palisades in Michigan. 

Vermont Yankee, Pilgrim and the Indian 

Point facility in New York are now in the 

renewal process. 

We anticipate getting renewed 

licenses issued for Vermont Yankee and 

Pilgrim some time this year; at Indian 

Point we are working toward the early part 

of 2011. There is a lot of interest at Indian 

Point and there is going to be an extensive 

hearing process. In the meantime, we 

plan to pursue renewed licenses for the 

Kansler has a bachelor’s degree in 

mechanical engineering from Virginia 

Polytechnic Institute and State 

University, and completed Pennsylvania 

State University’s executive management 

program. 

Kansler joined Entergy in 1998 as vice 

president of operations support. 

Kansler currently serves as chairman 

of the Nuclear Energy Institute Nuclear 

Strategic Issues Advisory Committee and 

on the board of directors for the Institute 

of Nuclear Power Operations. He is 

a founding member of the Northeast 

Energy Alliance and a member of 

the American Society of Mechanical 

Engineers, the Executive Committee 

of the Energy Association of New York 

State and the Hudson Valley Hospital 

Center Board. He is a former member of 

the INPO National Nuclear Accrediting 

Board. 

other Entergy units in the south as well 

as offering our license renewal services to 

others in the nuclear industry. 

We are also planning power uprates. 

It is the NRC’s desire that we not do power 

uprates and license renewals at the same 

time thus in most cases, we’ll concentrate 

on power uprates prior to doing license 

renewals. That timing works out well for 

us. 

We are also working with Cooper 

Nuclear Power Plant in Nebraska on 

the contract we have to manage their 

operation. We are currently heavily 

involved in renewing that station’s license 

and in discussion of how, or if, we can 

provide assistance with Cooper’s power 

up-rate project as well. We have managed 

the Cooper Nuclear Station since October 

2003. 

3. Is an 80-year plant life viable? 

The Electric Power Research Institute 

is assessing what would it take to operate 

an additional 20 years after the 60-year 

mark. I think once most organizations get 


the original 20-year renewal they’ll think 

about going for the second extension. 

It’s a decision based on whether your 

concrete can take it - can your cables 

maintain integrity, and can your facility 

last that period of time. Right now there 

is nothing saying it can’t. You just have 

to prove capability through analytical 

techniques. 

Originally, when plants were built, 

they had an assumed 40-year life as 

mandated by the Atomic Energy Act. 

However, there is no technical reason that 

the life of the unit cannot be extended 

well beyond the assumed 40-year life. 

One of the critical items of concern was 

the strength of the reactor vessel because 

of the neutron flux. What the industry is 

finding now is that these vessels are wellstructured 

and that there is a great deal 

of conservatism built into the original 

designs. They can last a long time while 

being bombarded by neutron radiation for 

40 years or even possibly up to 80 years. 

And it’s not possible to replace a 

reactor vessel. So it’s really all about 

continuing to show that the unit is safe 

beyond the first added 20 years. Right 

now Entergy is going after the first 20 

year renewal and then we’ll look at it 

again. 

4. What is the progress of Entergy using 

digital technology in its plants? 

That’s an interesting technology for 

our industry. As an industry, we’ve got 

plants that have been running for 40 years 

based on old technology, mostly analog 

with some digital. Moving to digital 

control systems is a significant change for 

the plant as staffs have to learn a different 

way of running the operation. 

If the analog works fine, there is no 

reason to switch it over. For new plants, 

that’s a different story. You want to start 

digital because that’s the way of the 

future. But, for the established plants, it’s 

more useful to upgrade to digital when a 

plant is in a retrofit mode. 

5. What are Entergy’s achievements in 

improving the environment? 

Entergy has made a strong public 

commitment to manage green-house 

emissions. Entergy’s CEO, Wayne 

Leonard, has been very public about 

our corporate responsibility to do our 

part in preventing global warming. He 

is passionate about making sure that 

the country does the right thing from an 

energy perspective. 

Entergy made our first commitment 

in 2001 to stabilize our CO 2 

emissions 

at year 2000 levels. We beat that goal 

with emission levels that were 23 percent 

better than our target. Then, we made our 

second voluntary five-year commitment, 

this time to stabilize our CO 2 

emissions 

from 2006 through 2010 to 20 percent 

below year 2000 levels. Entergy is the 

second-cleanest utility generator among 

the top 10 U.S. generators, due largely 

to our portfolio of clean nuclear and 

natural gas generation resources. As a 

company, we have performed better than 

our original commitment. 

Relative to our environmental 

stewardship, we have focused on that 

across the fleet. For example, on the 

nuclear side, at plants like Pilgrim, 

it’s been easy to show environmental 

leadership. When managing the land 

at Pilgrim, we sponsor a hatchery in 

Plymouth for winter flounder. Entergy 

aims to be the cleanest power generator 

in America in regard to emission levels 

and conserving natural resources. 

6. What are Entergy’s public relation 

efforts for its nuclear power plants? 

One unique community relations 

approach we use in New York is a hybrid 

vehicle that is, basically, a mobile visitor 

center. It has displays and computer 

programs, and we take it to schools for 

kids to see anything they can see in a 

nuclear power plant visitor center. The 

hatchback opens to a large flat screen 

TV and you watch tours and educational 

programs. It’s important that each local 

Entergy plant has good educational 

materials and outreach. 

The nuclear industry hasn’t done a 

very good job at educating young kids and 

students about nuclear power recently, so 

that they can form their own opinions 

about nuclear power and technologies. 

We need to stop catching them late in the 

ballgame and communicate with them 

early-on to help shape their perceptions 

with the facts about nuclear. As young 

people begin to make their own choices, 

we want to influence them in a positive 

way about nuclear power. 

At Entergy, we’re opening the 

nuclear power plant sites for more 

and more tours. We’re bringing public 

officials, school kids, college students and 

teachers into the plant. We are showing 

them the safety approaches in the plant 

and educating them about our industry. 

But we still don’t have public places that 

they can come to. We’re beginning to talk 

about a more elaborate mobile-type of 

set up to do more outreach, perhaps. It’s 

important to us and on our radar screen 

but we haven’t figured out the best way to 

implement that yet for our fleet. 

One thing others may not know about 

us is that we really believe in supporting 

our local plant communities. We donate 

substantial amounts of money to various 

local causes. It’s amazing the amount 

of different organizations we support 

throughout the year in support of efforts 

that we believe in as employees that live 

and work in the community. 

We are stepping up our engagement 

with the public. We have, as an industry, 

closed them out with the security requirements 

and closed our visitor centers after 

September 11, 2001. There are very few 

visitor centers that are outside security 

zones where the general public has easy 

access. Like I said, these issues are on 

our radar. 




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7. Please provide any challenges that 

Entergy has and also your concluding 

comments. 

About license renewal - the one good 

thing about license renewal is that the rules 

are very clear from the NRC. What we’ve 

learned as an industry from the more than 

52 plants that have been renewed to date 

is that, if you stick to the NRC process, 

then technically, you should be in good 

shape. Unless there is a significant issue 

in your plant that can not adequately be 

addressed, then one should anticipate that 

their request for renewing their operating 

license will be approved. 

To my knowledge there is no 

inclination, at least these days, for the 

NRC to significantly change the rules. 

The NRC is appropriately ensuring that 

lessons learned from previous license 

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going to be a whole industry renaissance 

if all four of these first projects really 

go forward in the best way possible. 

Those four projects need to do a lot of 

collaborating among themselves. I think 

the industry in general needs to be really 

supportive of them because at the end of 

the day we really aren’t competing with 

each other, not for new nuclear any more 

than we are for existing plants. When 

we can show an industry-wide capacity 

factor of 95 percent, everybody wins. If 

someone is stuck down at 70 percent, all 

of us want to do whatever we can to get 

him up, because the industry is all tied 

together at a high capacity factor. We 

collaborate, and of course we need to 

continue the industry’s excellent safety 

record. It’s an important part of our very 

high public support right now, along with 

growing recognition of nuclear energy’s 

environmental benefits. 

is done correctly in accordance with the 

process. It may take a little bit longer for 

a plant like Indian Point, given the level 

of public involvement and interest, but I 

think when you get down to the process 

and the science involved, then most plants 

in the country shouldn’t have a significant 

problem getting their license renewed. 

Our biggest focus is Indian Point. We 

submitted our license renewal application 

in 2007 and originally we would have 

anticipated that the process could have 

taken 22 months if you don’t have any 

intervention and 30 months if you have 

intervention. But Indian Point is going 

to be closer to 60 months, not because 

the units have any more technical issues 

as compared to other units but mainly 

because both Entergy and the NRC are 

allowing a lot of time for the reviews and 

hearings. All of this to ensure without 

question, the continued safety level of 

I am very excited about the 

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create clean and reliable electricity, we 

are going to create many, many jobs. Not 

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540 jobs. Another partner, Alstom, 

plans to expand its turbine facility in 

Chattanooga, Tenn., creating another 350 

jobs. And we know other suppliers will 

spring up to support the infrastructure 

needed for the new nuclear energy 

plants we envision for the next 20, 40, 

60 years. As I look ahead, I see a revival 

of commercial nuclear power plants that 

will become the bedrock of our nation’s 

energy security and infrastructure for the 

21st Century. 

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the two units. Per the process, there is 

no reason why Indian Point shouldn’t get 

its license renewed like any other plant in 

this country. It’s just going to take more 

time as compared to previous license 

renewal applications. 

About the Nuclear Energy Institute's 

conference - At this conference, you’ve 

heard it and I agree with it: I think this 

industry is running better than it has 

in the 30 to 40-year history. I think the 

nuclear renaissance movement to build 

new plants is not dead, it’s still alive. 

There are a handful of organizations that 

are moving with new nuclear. They are 

building to show it can be done. 

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123 Agreement Challenges 

By David Mulford, Credit Suisse. 

1. What is the status of 123 civilian 

nuclear cooperation agreement that India 

has recently accomplished? 

India was granted an exception by 

the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in 

September, 2008, which permitted the 

finally approved 123 agreement by the 

US Congress in October, 2008. The 

U.S. president then signed the historic 

legislation and India was able to begin 

nuclear commerce with the world. 

Finalization of the Agreement 

terminated India’s 35 year isolation in 

the world of civil nuclear commerce and 

has opened India again to the world. India 

still has certain steps to complete. One 

is to finalize its spent fuel reprocessing 

arrangements and the other is to pass 

legislation to permit India to join the 

world convention on nuclear liability. 

India is announcing plans for different 

countries to have different locations in 

the country to build reactors. This process 

is only just beginning now. 

The liability issue will have to be 

resolved before US companies can enter 

into contracts, but they can certainly begin 

their discussion and preparations because 

India now has a government that is likely 

to move that legislation promptly. 

There was a large U.S. delegation 

of some 56 companies that came to 

New Delhi in January, 2009. I had the 

opportunity of meeting with them to 

discuss their interest in exploring their 

potential interests in the nuclear industry. 

I think this will develop but will take a 

little time. 

The new administration has so far 

been too busy to focus on these next 

steps. But I am sure they will begin this 

process soon. 





18, 2009. 

David Mulford 

Ambassador David Mulford is Vice 

Chairman International of Credit 

Suisse. In this role, Ambassador Mulford 

works with a range of clients across the 

integrated bank with a particular focus 

on governments, as well as corporate 

clients, across the globe. He is based in 

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Ambassador Mulford rejoined Credit 

Suisse in March of 2009 after spending 

fi ve years as US Ambassador to India. 

Ambassador Mulford came to India in 

early 2004, at a time when India – US 

relations were undergoing a dramatic 

shift and the strategic partnership 

between New Delhi and Washington 

was gaining momentum as the two 

sides began working more closely 

together on an unprecedented range 

2. What is your guidance for the U.S. 

companies who want to do business 

with India to help India’s nuclear power 

industry? 

I think U.S. companies that come 

to India have to have a very carefully 

constructed plan or vision. They have to 

be prepared to pursue that with patience 

and dedication as it will require some 

period of time to establish their position. 

of issues, including the US–India Civil 

Nuclear Agreement completed in 2008. 

Ambassador Mulford has been a major 

player for fi ve years in the building of a 

strong partnership between the United 

States and India, the world’s two larges 

multicultural democracies. 

Dr Mulford also led the Brady Plan 

initiative to restore the Latin America 

debt crisis in 1989, the US Delegation 

to negotiate the establishment of the 

European Bank for Reconstruction 

and Development as well as the G-7 

negotiations to reduce Poland’s offi cial 

bilateral debt in 1991. 

Dr Mulford received a Doctor of 

Philosophy degree from Oxford 

University. He has published two books 

on Zambia. He received an Honorary 

Doctor of Laws Degree from Lawrence 

University, the Legion d’Honneur 

from the President of France, the 

Distinguished Alumni Award from 

Boston University, the Alexander 

Hamilton Award, the highest honour 

to be bestowed by the Secretary of the 

Treasury for extraordinary service and 

benefi t to the Treasury Department and 

the Nation, the Order of May from Merit 

from the President of Argentina and the 

Offi cer’s Cross of the Medal of Merit 

from the President of Poland. 

Dr Mulford is a member of the Council 

of Foreign Relations. 

India is a complex place. It is not like 

China where you can go in and there is an 

efficient bureaucracy that is a command 

bureaucracy that does what it’s told to do. 

You are going into a democracy, a place 

with a large private sector market which 

is a relatively free market. So one has to 

have a really good business game plan, 

good partners, good strategy, pursue that 

patiently and be prepared to invest time 



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and money into that process in order to 

be successful in the long term. But I think 

U.S. companies have found if they do that 

they will do very well. I would emphasize 

however that there is no substitute for 

taking that long term dedicated view. 

3. How will U.S. companies succeed in a 

business culture in India which is different 

compared to the United States? 

I think they will succeed in part depending 

on the field. American companies 

often have world leading technology, 

they are very competitive and India is maturing 

and growing more sophisticated. I 

think a lot of people in India realize that 

using a local agent who is supposed to get 

things done for you often increases the 

cost of doing that business and in some 

cases can be illegal under US law because 

you can’t pay fees that are shared with 

government officials. 

India is beginning to learn, for example, 

that in a defense contract, where 

US defense products have top of the line 

technology, there is no room for the kinds 

of fees to be paid which one sees in the 

case of other countries. They understand 

that when they do a deal with a U.S. 

company, the deal is fully competitive, 

there are no extras in it to pass around so 

they are getting the very best deal possible, 

and the highest quality equipment. 

Gradually people are coming to see this. 

Before I left India U.S. defense companies 

signed several billion dollars worth 

of contracts with the Indian government. 

Two big deals were done there in the last 

6 months. So I think this is changing in 

India. 

In the private sector you don’t need 

agents, you can make a joint venture deal 

with companies. In the government sector, 

maybe you’re doing a joint venture with 

somebody, maybe you’re in business on 

your own in India, but U.S. companies 

are having a high degree of success. I had 

some Indian government officials tell me 

that when a U.S. company comes here 

to do business, tell them not to do with 

the local agents, we want to do it directly 

with them. So I think the use of ‘middle 

men’ is declining. 

4. What is the reaction of the average 

public in India to 123 agreement? 

Nuclear energy is very cost competitive 

to the consumer. It’s a clean source of energy. 

It’s an alternative source of energy. So in all 

those ways it has an important attraction. 

In the US, for example, I understand that 

many of the communities that want new 

nuclear facilities are communities that 

already have nuclear facilities and they 

are happy with their performance. - clean, 

cost competitive, safe. My own feeling 

is that this is an industry in the United 

States that will have a new build. There 

will be plenty of financing for firms in the 

financing business. 

In India there is a strong interest in 

bolstering a civil nuclear energy industry. 

If this plan is pursued, there will be a huge 

industry in India. Some people estimate the 

size of the Indian industry ultimately will 

be about 100 billion dollars, according to 

the plan the government has laid out for 

expanding its capacity. The plan in India 

is to raise the present capacity from about 

2.5% of total electricity coming from 

civil nuclear to about 18% or 20% over 

the next 20 years. That would be about 

50, 1,000 megawatt reactors. Reactors 

that run about 1.5 billion dollars each. 

The question in India is whether the 

government alone can meet that target. 

I think it’s going to have to have private 

sector cooperation and investment and 

it will have some participation from big 

foreign firms as well as from some big 

Indian firms, Reliance, Tata, Larsen & 

Toubro. The government is going to have 

to broaden the base out from the Atomic 

Energy Commission that runs the present 

Indian industry. The Indian industry 

today has some 15 or 16 reactors but until 

this deal was done they were running at 

approximately 50% capacity because of 

fuel shortages. Now all that’s been lifted. 

If you go to India now you’re going to find 

that the public is enormously motivated 

by the idea that India is returning to this 

position of potential leadership in the 

world of civil nuclear technology. There 

is huge pride in the deal. I’m talking 

about the man in the street who may not 

know the details but is proud to see India 

once again a leading player in the global 

scene. When I left India the U.S. had an 

86% approval rate and that was up from 

a very high average of about 70%. When 

that spiked up to 86, people who do those 

surveys asked people, how you account 

for this jump in popularity. The biggest 

group of respondents, 26% of people they 

interviewed said the reason was the civil 

nuclear deal. That took away 35 years 

of isolation and humiliation, India is 

back. With their own technology, its own 

scientific community. There is huge pride 

involved. I don’t think people in America 

fully understand this. 

5. How will India comply with IAEA’s 

non-proliferation requirements? 

As a part of the 123 agreement, 

parallel to it, there has been a separate 

negotiation between India and the IAEA. 

An India specific safeguard agreement 

was approved by the board of governors 

of the IAEA, including the US. This was 

done before the draft 123 agreement went 

to the Nuclear Suppliers Group where the 

exception was granted by consensus among 

all 35 countries. Once the safeguards 

agreement was approved and the NSG 

has acted, the whole package went back 

to the U.S. congress where it was voted 

on one more time in the final ratification 

in the 123 agreement. So all those pieces 

were pulled together by that process and 

it is that which has given credibility to 

this thing. Before we negotiated the 123 

agreement, we negotiated with India 

a separation agreement which was an 

agreement that specified how the Indians 

would separate its strategic program 




 

 

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from its civil nuclear program. That 

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That agreement was then presented to 

the congress before the congress changed 

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order of events here is quite important. 

President Bush announced the vision, 

separation agreement is negotiated, 

presented to the congress and the United 

States government, atomic energy act is 

changed, that was followed by the 123 

agreement- the bilateral agreement to 

put into place the change in the atomic 

energy law. And then after that IAEA, 

Nuclear Suppliers Group and then back 

to the Congress for the second and final 

vote. So that process over three and a half 

years was very thorough. 

I believe there are some 14 power 

plants certified by the Indians to be put 

under the IAEA civil nuclear program. 

Some are existing and some are under 

construction. They have to be put in there 

by 2014. At that time that will represent 

about 70% of India’s nuclear capacity. As 

they build more plants, the percentage 

of this industry that will be covered by 

safeguards will go up to 90%. 

After we finished the 123 negotiation 

it took 11 months to work through India’s 

political process until July 2008. 

6. How are the new plants in India going 

to be fi nanced? 

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but we will have to see what regulatory 

structure is put in place, what the 

ownership arrangements are and what 

revenue streams will be generated against 

which financing can be structured. Long 

term investors will have to be involved in 

the process. 

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Optimal Operation Through R&D 

By David Modeen, Electric Power 

Research Institute. 

1. What research and development 

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related to 80-year nuclear power plant 

life? 

We use the term ‘long-term 

operations,’ in recognition of two distinct 

but related activities. One is that we’re 

now entering the first renewal period, 

which takes plants from 40 to 60 years. 

There are needed research and engineering 

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more years of operation. And it’s not just 

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the plant for however long you run it. 

What EPRI’s long-term operations 

research is trying to do is ensure that as we 

adapt new technologies and we monitor for 

aging degradation, that we have the right 

technology to ensure that the plant runs 

well. A good example relates to concrete. 

In the first renewal period, there was 

relatively little concern from a structural 

point of view as well as an integrity point 

of view. However, we’ve seen some 

leakages like in the Connecticut Yankee 

spent fuel pool, some indications of boron 

leakage corrosion. What does that really 

mean more generically to the nuclear 

fleet? This is just one example where 

plant operators will need to confirm that a 

long-term investment in the plant will in 

fact pay off and the plant will remain as 

safe and reliable as it is today. 





20, 2009. 

David Modeen 

David Modeen is Director of External 

Affairs for the Nuclear Power sector 

at the Electric Power Research 

Institute (EPRI). He has over 30 

years of operational, technical, and 

policy experience in the nuclear 

fi eld. He is responsible for managing 

communications and interactions with 

the DOE Offi ce of Nuclear Energy, 

EPRI is also doing a lot of work 

in the monitoring of cable conditions. 

We don’t have the diagnostic tools 

today to obtain an accurate prediction 

of remaining useful life of our medium 

voltage cables. Because of evidence 

that certain underground cables have 

been wetted or submerged, the question 

arises, what about the integrity of the 

cable? We’re developing a white paper 

currently to confirm that the cable used 

in nuclear plants was properly selected 

and designed. We are also developing 

test and acceptance criteria for verifying 

the condition of wetted medium voltage 

cable based on removal and forensic 

assessment of service aged cable. 

2. What are the recent innovations 

in maintenance and outage support at 

EPRI? 

We are continuing to push hard on 

inspection technologies and nondestructive 

Idaho National Laboratory, Institute 

of Nuclear Power Operations, Nuclear 

Energy Institute, and Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission Offi ce of Research. 

Modeen joined EPRI in 2003 as Vice 

President, Nuclear Power Sector and 

Chief Nuclear Offi cer, a position he 

held until 2007. In this role, he led 

the team responsible for developing 

EPRI’s Nuclear Power technology R&D 

program and business development, 

working closely with both domestic and 

international advisors. 

Modeen holds a Bachelor of Science 

degree in industrial engineering from 

Iowa State. He served fi ve years in 

the U.S. Navy as a submarine warfare 

offi cer. He has served on the Institute 

of Nuclear Power Operations Advisory 

Council and is a registered nuclear and 

mechanical Professional Engineer in the 

state of Oregon. 

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balance of plant on the secondary side 

to understand and inform long-term 

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We’re also heavily involved in fuel 

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We want to take measurements relative to 

the integrity of the fuel, the crud that is on 

it, and help make decisions to continually 

improve the performance of the fuel. By 

examining what good performing fuel 

looks like, we can hopefully move more 

fuel cores in that direction. 

3. What is EPRI doing with respect to 

nuclear power plant uprates? 

The majority of the work to achieve 

a power uprate is well handled by the 

vendor and supplier community. There 

have been specific issues where the 

industry has come to EPRI for technical 

assistance, such as in acoustic-induced 

vibration issues associated with steam 

dryers in the BWR fleet. In some uprate 

cases, the performance was not what was 

intended and the fixes weren’t satisfactory 

either. EPRI has prepared a topical 

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methodologies that can be used by utilities 

in demonstrating steam dryer structural 

integrity at power uprate conditions. The 

report is currently under review by the 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

We’re also involved in industry 

concerns regarding jet pump flow-induced 

vibration (FIV) issues. There have been 

several instances of FIV resulting in 

moderate to severe jet pump degradation, 

most recently in Mexico in the fall of 

2008. EPRI is currently working with 

the boiling water reactor community to 

investigate the phenomena and evaluate 

various mitigating solutions. As part of 

that effort, we’re building a full-scale 

experimental facility in a vendor shop 

where we’ll be able to test out some 

potential repairs and better understand 

the operating fatigue mechanisms. 

4. Concluding comments. 

The one point I’d make relates to the 

long-term economic viability of nuclear 

power. We see the value of current plants 

continuing to increase: The nation’s 

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capacity is very important and it’s going to 

be an achievable but significant challenge 

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In 2008, Entergy Nuclear formed 

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power plant operations, maintenance 

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arena. Prior to coming to Entergy in 

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safety through early detection and 

improved management of equipment 

degradation. 

Cost Savings 

The fundamental purpose of an 

Innovations function in the organization 

is to find and implement transformational 

concepts and technologies to improve the 

way business is done and to drive more 

value out of the work performed. 

In the first year, Innovations made 

several major improvements including: 

• Implementation of SmartSignal Predictive 

On-Line Monitoring at Waterford 

3. This is a significant step in preventing 

major equipment failures as 

demonstrated by Entergy fossil at 

the Waterford 2 unit. In addition, a 

business case study showed that using 

the study as a basis, and reviewing 

two forced outages that occurred 

at our plants, early detection would 

have improved planning to enable 

a planned shutdown and equipment 

repair vs. an unplanned forced outage. 

The difference in cost was estimated 

at $1.5 million. The study 

indicated that an unplanned forced 

outage required a longer period to be 

off-line due to spare parts availability 

and planning required following 

shutdown. It was estimated that the 

outage duration would have been reduced 

from 14 to 9 days (5 days lost 

production cost avoidance estimated 

at $1.5 M) if pre-planning and spare 

parts were available when the unit 

came off-line. An additional $1M 

would have been spent in replacement 

power costs. 

• Development of a Wireless Technology 

to connect the River Bend intake 

structure, clarifier and Circulating 

Water System (CWS) building to 

the Control Room. The Innovation 

reduced project cost from $7M to 

$3M. 

• Several new wireless technology applications 

were evaluated including 

instruments, cameras, and radio frequency 

ID tags that will save costs 

in: 

1. Low-level radiological waste due 

to less entries into contaminated 

areas, 

2. Reduction of hours wasted 

locating critical, but infrequently 

used tools and equipment, 

and 

3. Improved human performance 

and reduction of errors with the 

process enablement of inventory 

and tracking technologies. 

• Successfully piloted “Business 

Genetics” Process Mapping on the 

Operating Experience Process and 

identified 24 areas for improvement 

with a potential 25% reduction in 

man-hours (13,000 man-hours per 

year). 

• A similar process mapping improvement 

project on the Engineering 

Change process is anticipated to reduce 

man-hours by 25%. In addition, 

an improvement initiative on the process 

used to gather and report Key 

Performance Indicators is targeted to 

reduce man-hours by 50% and data 

errors from approximately 10% to 

less than 1%. 

Innovation 

Entergy is the first and only 

company to implement a group of subject 

matter experts dedicated full time to 

driving Innovations across all Nuclear 

departments. The Innovations Team has 

linked annual nuclear business plans 

to their 5-year plan to drive business 

priority into actions that will improve 

and transform processes, equipment 

and people in the work environment. 

Standardizing business rules into key 

operating concepts and driving fleet 

improvements into asset management 

plans will add future benefit and reduce 

overall costs. Another unique aspect of 

the Innovations group is the University 

R&D partnership initiative. Specific 

R&D partnerships could lead to possible 

technology breakthroughs with very little 

cost to the company. In addition, these 

partnerships create improved company 

posture for recruiting and other university 

interactions. 

The following R&D proposals were 

chosen from over 40 ideas that were 

submitted: 

• A process to apply nano-particles to 

concrete that rehabilitates existing 

pours (increases strength, protects 

rebar, etc) - Louisiana Tech University 

• A process to use neutron beams 

to better examine welds for flaws - 

University of Tennessee 

• Creating a method to “see” radioactive 

contamination using special material 

- Mississippi State University 

• Developing technology to allow 

• 

detection of flaws on buried pipe - 

University of Arkansas 

Evaluating potential impact of global 

warming scenarios on Entergy 

Nuclear plant fleet - Texas A&M 

University 

Transferability 

This concept of a sustained focus on 

innovation can clearly be implemented by 

any nuclear entity willing to invest in its 

potential. Identified and proven payback 

outlined in this submittal will encourage 

others to follow. 

Contact: John Mahoney, Entergy 

Nuclear, 1340 Echelon Parkway, Jackson, 

MS 39213; telephone: 601.368.5833, fax: 

601.368-5323, email: jmahone@entergy. 

com. 

 


Next Generation Core Designs 

By James Tusar, Exelon Nuclear. 

Summary Statement: 

Exelon Nuclear has developed “Next 

Generation Core Designs” for Boiling 

Water Reactors (BWRs) that effectively 

deal with the technical and economic 

issues that nuclear utilities deal with today. 

Several of the major issues addressed are: 

1) mitigation of cell friction due to fuel 

channel – control blade interference, 2) 

minimizing reactivity manipulations/ 

operator challenges, 3) meeting the 

demands of long, power-uprated fuel 

cycles with high energy demands, and 4) 

managing increasing uranium prices. 

“Next Generation Core Designs 

(NGCDs)” are characterized by a low, flat 

hot excess reactivity. Hot excess reactivity 

is defined as the amount of reactivity 

that control rods must offset in order to 

maintain criticality at full power. There 

are several benefits of a low, flat hot excess 

reactivity core. Due to the flatness of the 

reactivity throughout the cycle, the core 

is “operationally friendly”. Control rod 

manipulations are minimized; therefore 

reactivity management challenges are 

minimized. Since core-wide reactivity 

Nuclear Energy Institute’s Top Industry 

Practice (TIP) Awards highlight the 

nuclear industry’s most innovative 

techniques and ideas. They promote 

the sharing of innovation and best 

practices, and consequently improve the 

commerical prospects and competitive 

position of the industry as a whole. 

This TIP Award Entry was a 2009 NEI 

Process Award Winner. 

The team members who participated 

included: James Tusar, Exelon Nuclear, 

Nuclear Fuels; Giuseppe Rubinaccio, 

Exelon Nuclear, Nuclear Fuels; Haksoo 

Kim, Exelon Nuclear, Nuclear Fuels; 

Michael Downs, Global Nuclear Fuel; 

Lukas Trosman, Global Nuclear Fuel; 

Bill Cline, Global Nuclear Fuel. 

is relatively flat, no adjustments are 

necessary to compensate for reactivity 

changes through the majority of the 

cycle. Minimal adjustments to core flow 

can accommodate the small reactivity 

changes. The low magnitude of the hot 

excess reactivity curve will minimize cell 

friction issues. Typically, the majority 

of the fuel cycle will only require eight 

(8) control rods inserted to deep notch 

positions. This will mitigate shadow 

corrosion induced channel bowing issues 

that may lead to cell friction at higher 

exposures. Therefore, the low control rod 

density mitigates cell friction due to fuel 

channel – control blade interference. In 

addition to the low control rod density, 

multiple control rod sequences are used 

to limit the amount of control that any 

individual fuel cell receives. A low 

control rod density design also reduces 

control blade depletion, which minimizes 

control blade management costs. 

The low, flat hot excess reactivity 

is accomplished through the judicious 

placement of gadolinia rods and 

proper determination of the gadolinia 

concentration. Gadolinia rod placement 

(relative to the control blade) and the 

proper determination of the number of 

gadolinia rods and their concentration 

(up to 8% (Gd 2 

O 3 

) will result in a “flat” 

curve. 

Increasing the number and/or 

concentration of gadolinia rods can 

adversely impact the energy capability 

of the reactor core. Strategies have 

been developed to improve fuel cycle 

economics to compensate for increasing 

uranium prices and the energy demands 

associated with two-year fuel cycles 

with high capacity factor, short refueling 

outage, and power uprated conditions. 

The primary “Next Generation Core 

Design” strategies to improve fuel cycle 

economics are: 1) Multiple streams of 

fresh fuel, 2) Fully implemented cycle 

extension techniques, 3) Spectral shift 

James Tusar 

James Tusar is a graduate of Penn 

State University with a BS in Nuclear 

Engineering, an MS in Environmental 

Engineering from Drexel University, 

and a Professional Engineer’s License 

in Nuclear Engineering. He is currently 

Manager of Boiling Water Reactor 

Design for Exelon Nuclear which 

includes responsibility for nuclear 

fuel design, reactor core design, core 

management, core monitoring systems, 

and reload coordination. 

operation, 4) Scatter loading of fresh fuel 

on the core interior with some “triple 

loaded” cells, and 5) All twice-burned 

bundles (going into their third cycle of 

irradiation) are loaded in the outer three 

core rows (near the periphery). These 

strategies reduce reload batch size and/or 

enrichment. 

Multiple streams of reload bundle 

nuclear designs (within certain design 

basis constraints) allows the designer to 

tailor the core design to address certain 

problem locations (e.g., shutdown margin, 

thermal limits). This concept allows the 

total gadolinia content of the core to be 

reduced, thereby improving fuel cycle 

economics. Additional gadolinia may be 

loaded in bundles that reside in a limited 

number of locations in the core as opposed 

to the entire batch of fuel. 

Full implementation of cycle extension 

techniques involves the engineering 

and licensing work to allow the use of Increased 

Core Flow and Final Feedwater 

Temperature Reduction during the energy 

planning phase of the reload work. These 

cycle extension techniques, along with an 

economically optimum power coastdown 

length, reduce the energy requirement of 

the fuel cycle in terms of reload bundles 

and/or enrichment. These cycle extension 

techniques can be used as a “credit” 

towards the energy capability of the fuel 



Next Generation... 


cycle, thereby reducing the amount of full 

power energy that the reload fuel needs 

to fulfill. 

Spectral shift operation can be 

accomplished in several ways – through 

bundle design, core flow control, or rod 

patterns. The objective of spectral shift is 

to create a strongly bottom peaked core 

average axial power distribution such 

that plutonium-239 is created from the 

conversion of uranium-238. With the 

high energy requirements of today’s fuel 

cycles, the core designs must ensure that 

licensed exposure limits are not exceeded. 

In order to meet this requirement, as well 

as minimize the fluence on the reactor 

pressure vessel and internals, NGCDs load 

all twice-burned fuel bundles (bundles 

entering their third cycle of operation) 

in the outer three core rows. Since these 

radial locations are of a lower duty than the 

interior of the core, the twice-burned fuel 

does not accumulate a significant amount 

of exposure in its third cycle of operation. 

Also, techniques such as “shielding” of 

potential limiting exposure bundles with 

less reactive (high exposure) bundles 

tends to minimize the exposure increment 

on the limiting bundles during their third 

cycle of operation. To increase the core’s 

energy capability, a limited number of 

triple loaded cells (three fresh bundles in 

a cell) are utilized. This component of the 

strategy preferentially loads more fresh 

fuel towards the center of the core. 

Safety 

“Next Generation Core Designs” 

enhance nuclear safety in several ways. 

The mitigation of cell friction due to 

fuel channel – control blade interference 

reduces concerns associated with: (1) 

the potential for fuel bundle lift, (2) the 

transfer of elevated forces to reactor 

internals causing higher stresses, and (3) 

control rod operability. The capability to 

shut down the reactor and maintain it in 

a safe shutdown condition is a 10CFR21 

requirement. NGCDs enhance the ability 

to meet these requirements. The use 

of multi-streaming of fresh reload fuel 

types specifically targets improvement in 

shutdown margin when this is a limiting 

nuclear design requirement. Minimizing 

reactivity manipulations and operator 

challenges improves nuclear safety by 

placing fewer demands on Operations, 

thereby reducing potential human 

performance errors. A flat, hot excess 

reactivity curve will mitigate reactivity 

manipulations aside from the standard, 

planned rod pattern sequence exchanges 

and rod withdrawals that occur towards 

end-of-cycle as the core is depleted. A 

reduction of approximately 4 reactivity 

manipulations per two-year fuel cycle 

will be achieved. 

Cost Savings 

The net fuel cost savings with the 

“Next Generation Core Design” strategy 

will vary from plant to plant depending 

on the extent of cycle extension 

techniques that have been licensed, the 

optimal coastdown length for the cycle 

(function of forward power prices during 

the coastdown period and cost of the 

reload fuel), number of triple loaded cells 

used, and effectiveness of the spectral 

shift, multi-streamed design. For Exelon 

BWRs that have fully implemented 

NGCDs from 2006 through 2008, the 

total net fuel savings, accounting for the 

gadolinia requirements for a low control 

rod density design and the generation cost 

for the coastdown replacement power, is 

approximately $50 million. Back-end fuel 

cycle savings are also realized through a 

reduction in spent fuel burden (spent fuel 

pool storage re-racking and interim spent 

fuel dry cask storage). 

Innovation 

This multi-faceted approach 

combines several technical concepts into 

one strategy that provides operationally 

friendly and economic BWR core 

designs. Exelon has been at the forefront 

of the development and implementation 

of this strategy. 

Productivity/Efficiency 

The “Next Generation Core Design” 

strategy reduces the reload batch size. 

This, in turn, reduces refueling outage 

time as fewer “core to fuel pool” shuffles 

are required to meet the final core 

configuration. From a spent fuel storage 

perspective, the reduced batch size results 

in less pressure on the spent fuel pool 

and the interim fuel storage system. The 

strategy improves the core’s efficiency by 

the energy-efficient radial placement of 

the fresh, once-burned and twice-burned 

fuel, the multi-streamed reload bundle 

designs, and the use of spectral shift 

operation. 

Transferability 

The “Next Generation Core Design” 

strategy is applicable to other Boiling 

Water Reactors to address the current 

issues in the industry. Other utilities 

have adopted the concepts in whole or in 

part as operating experience is shared at 

industry meetings. 

Contact: James Tusar, Nuclear 

Fuels, Exelon, 200 Exelon Way, KSA 2-N, 

Kennett Square, PA 19348; telephone: 

610-765-5818, fax: 610-765-5651, email: 

james.tusar@exeloncorp.com. 

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Continual Strong Performance 

By Tyler Lamberts, Entergy Nuclear 

Operations, Inc. 

Located 35 miles north of New York 

City, Indian Point Energy Center provides 

electricity to a region of the country that 

continues to show economic growth 

and hosts several of the country’s major 

Fortune 500 companies as well as some 

of the most influential media and financial 

markets. The site takes full advantage of its 

position in the spotlight and consistently 

shines by setting performance records 

and making technological advancements. 

There are three units on the Indian 

Point site. However, only units 2 and 3 

remain in operation today. Indian Point 

Units 2 and 3 are pressurized water 

reactors. Westinghouse manufactured the 

reactor system and steam system. Indian 

Point 2 produces 1,035 gross megawatts 

and Indian Point 3, 1,070 gross megawatts 

of electricity. In 2009 unit 3 achieved 

a record for most continuous days of 

service for a Westinghouse PWR at 678 

days. 

The plants have been in commercial 

operation since 1974 and 1976 

respectively. Since that time, they have 

produced over 250 billion kilowatt-hours 

of electricity. Electricity from Indian 

Point Units 2 and 3 serves more than 3 

million customers in the five boroughs of 

New York City and Westchester County. 

A 20-year license renewal application for 

both operating units was submitted to the 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission in April 

2007 to extend licenses to 2033 for Unit 

2 and 2035 for Unit 3. 

Indian Point 1 began commercial 

operation in 1962 and received the first 

construction permit for a nuclear power 

plant in the world. It was among the 

first commercial nuclear power plants to 

operate worldwide. The pressurized water 

reactor unit was retired in 1974 when its 

previous owner, Consolidated Edison, 

determined that it was not cost-effective 

to implement plant modifications required 

by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

The unit was de-fueled, and the station’s 

auxiliary systems are maintained and 

support the operation of Indian Point 2. 

Tyler Lamberts 

Tyler Lamberts graduated in June, 

2008 with a degree in Marketing from 

Oregon State University. Tyler currently 

works for OSU Conference Services in 

Corvallis, Oregon. 

Environmental 

Contributions 

Indian Point has the goal of preserving 

the community and protecting natural 

resources. With help from Entergy, Indian 

Point has sponsored the Environmental 

Stewardship Grants program for the past 

seven years. The program provides grants 

to community-based projects designed to 

enhance or preserve the environment. 

In 2006 Entergy and Indian Point 

awarded $32,500 in environmental grants 

to two local organizations. The two award 

winners were Black Rock Consortium, 

Inc., and the Research Foundation of 

Joseph Pollock 

Joseph Pollock became site vice 

president of Indian Point Energy 

Center in December, 2007. As site 

vice president, Pollock is responsible 

for overall operation of Indian Point 

Energy Center’s units 2 and 3, and 

the maintenance of unit 1 which is 

decommissioned. 

His educational background includes 

a bachelor’s degree in business 

administration from Glassboro State 

College. He holds a senior reactor 

operator certifi cate at Hope Creek. He 

also completed Columbia University’s 

Graduate Business Executive 

Management Program in 1998 and the 

Institute of Nuclear Power Operators’ 

Senior Nuclear Plant Management 

Course in 2000. 

City University of New York College and 

Queens College. 

The Black Rock Consortium, based 

in Cornwall, N.Y., used the funds to 

support a project to involve students, 

Boy Scouts and volunteers from the 

local community to reestablish breeding 

populations of native brook trout. Through 

the years Brook Trout were virtually 

wiped out from the area by deforestation 

and increased development. The goal 

of the project was to raise Brook Trout 

from eggs to fingerlings with the aim of 

releasing the fingerlings into five streams 


in the region. By doing so, reproducing 

populations would be reestablished. 

Students from the City University 

of New York spent part of their summer 

term aboard the research vessel Hugh 

Sharp to survey western Long Island 

Sound as part of an educational marine 

geosciences field experience. The project 

was a collaborative effort between City 

University of New York Colleges and 

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of 

Columbia University. The research vessel 

was part of the University-National 

Oceanographic Laboratory System fleet 

and was operated by the University of 

Delaware. 

Planning Ahead 

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 

called for increased capabilities for 

emergency sirens in densely populated 

areas, such as New York City. In response 

to that legislation, Indian Point installed 

a new siren system to alert residents of 

the four-county emergency planning 

zone (Westchester, Rockland, Orange 

and Putnam Counties) to tune into 

local broadcasts for emergency related 

information. 

The state-of-the-art system has a 

battery backup system, insuring they can 

be activated if there is a loss of power in 

the area. Additionally, each siren has eight 

non-rotating electronic speakers rather 

than the rotating speakers of the retiring 

system. The non-rotating sirens are more 

reliable since they do not rely on moving 

parts to sound effectively. 

The system was placed into service 

in August 2008 and is undergoing a 

one-year reliability review by FEMA, 

after which the system will receive final 

approval. 

Community Connection 

The employees at Indian Point 

continually reach out to the community by 

volunteering to support charitable causes. 

This continued employee support has a 

positive impact on many organizations in 

the surrounding communities. 

Community Connectors, Entergy’s 

volunteer program, recognizes and 

encourages the volunteer efforts of 

Entergy employees, retirees and board 

members. In addition to providing 

communities with volunteer services, the 

Community Connectors program gives 

Entergy volunteers an opportunity to 

provide monetary contributions to their 

communities through two programs: 

Dollars-for Doers grants and Heart and 

Health grants. 

Dollars-for-Doers grants support 

the efforts of employees and retirees 

who volunteer in their communities. 

Volunteers can earn the grants through 

volunteer hours with a not-for-profit 

organization and for every 20 hours 

Entergy donates $250 to the organization. 

Employees participate in this program by 

leading scout troops, coaching, tutoring, 

building Habitat for Humanity houses 

and serving on non-profit boards. 

Heart and Health grants are available 

to eligible organizations that support 

employees’ active participation in walks, 

runs or rides. Each year compassionate 

employees from the site participate in 

fundraising walks including Multiple 

Sclerosis, The American Cancer Society 

and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. 

Indian Point employees also 

contribute to the Winslow Therapeutic 

Riding program. With help from Entergy, 

Indian Point was able to award a grant 

to Winslow to support a scholarship 

program for therapeutic riding. The 

scholarship makes it possible for children 

to participate in a program that provides 

physical and occupational therapies for a 

wide range of diagnosis including autism 

and communications disorders, blindness 

and visual impairment, cerebral palsy, 

spina bifida, stroke and head trauma from 

accidents. 

Fast Facts – Indian Point and 

Entergy in the Community 

• Indian Point and Entergy have been 

major sponsors of the Paramount 

Theater renovation, issuing a 

$100,000 challenge grant to the 

organization. 

• Indian Point is an annual sponsor of 

the fireworks display at the Peekskill 

Celebration. We also maintain 

an information booth for public 

education. 

• Each year for over 42 years, Indian 

Point employees have contributed to 

the Rosary Hill Christmas campaign. 

Rosary Hill is dedicated to hospice 

care for those who cannot afford this 

type of treatment. They do not solicit 

funds from government agencies but 

rely upon the generosity of the public 

for funds. 

• Indian Point has pledged $150,000 to 

support a donor coach for the New 

York Blood Service. Each year the 

site employees donate about 500 

pints of blood at employee sponsored 

blood drives. 

• Entergy is a corporate sponsor of the 

Westchester Arts Council that brings 

educational and arts programs to the 

local community. 

Indian Point is currently owned by 

Entergy Nuclear, LLC, a wholly-owned 

subsidiary of New Orleans-based Entergy 

Corporation and operated by Entergy’s 

nuclear business function. There are 

eight other nuclear sites with a combined 

nine nuclear units owned by Entergy 

subsidiaries and operated by Entergy’s 

nuclear business function. These units 

are located in Arkansas (Arkansas 

Nuclear One, with two operating units), 

Louisiana (River Bend and Waterford 

3), Massachusetts (Pilgrim), Michigan 

(Palisades), Mississippi (Grand Gulf), 

New York (FitzPatrick) and Vermont 

(Vermont Yankee). Energy Nuclear is 

also contracted to provide management 

services to Nebraska Power District’s 

Cooper Nuclear Station in Nebraska 

through 2014. 

Contact: Jerry Nappi, Manager, 

Communications, Indian Point Energy 

Center, 450 Broadway, Suite 1, Buchanan, 

NY 10511; telephone: (914) 721-7132, 

e-mail: jnappi@entergy.com. 



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United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Westinghouse nuclear technology will help provide future 

generations with safe, clean and reliable electricity. 

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New Build…Old Reliability 

The nuclear-focused companies of Curtiss-Wright have been continuously providing 

innovative, value added solutions to the nuclear power industry since its birth in the 

1950’s. Our products helped power the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered 

submarine, and contributed to the startup of the nation’s first commercial nuclear power 

plant at Shippingport in 1958. 

Nuclear Group 

We have played a major role in supporting new construction, plant maintenance, uprates 

and plant life extension for over 50 years. At Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company, we 

don’t just provide products; we solve problems and create systems that push the 

frontiers of technology, with innovations that set the standards for the future. 

• Nuclear Quality and Commercial Grade Components 

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• Engineering Services 

• Fabrication, Machining and Build-to-Print 

• Equipment Qualification and Harsh Environment Testing 

714-982-1898 

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