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Contracts...Continued from page 15assemblies and related services for theCNT 1 reactor, located in Guadalajara,Spain.This award, to take effect in 2010,follows the long-standing cooperationbetween AREVA and Central Nuclear deTrillo.Contact: Julien Duperray, telephone:33 1 34 96 12 15.SG TubesAREVA and Sandvik MaterialsTechnology, Sweden, a subsidiary ofSandvik group, signed a multi-yearcontract to supply steam generator tubes,valued at almost 200 millions euros.This agreement, as part of theAREVA long-term strategy, securescritical supplies and enables the group tomeet the strong global demand for futurenuclear power plants.This agreement reinforces the twocompanies’ cooperation and marksanother important stage in the relationshipbetween the two groups.Steam generators tubes first deliverieswill occur at the end of 2013.Contact: Julien Duperray, telephone:33 1 34 96 12 15.Maintenance ContractDay & Zimmermann has beenawarded a multi-year contract by PSEGNuclear. The scope includes full-servicemaintenance and modification work aswell as selected project work at theirSalem and Hope Creek Nuclear Stationsin Hancocks Bridge, NJ. With the awardof this contract, PSEG Nuclear and Day& Zimmermann renew a successful longtermrelationship that began in 1997.Contact: Brian Hartz, telephone:(717) 391-3138, email: brian.hartz@dayzim.com.Service ContractDay & Zimmermann NPS (DZNPS)announced that it has been awarded a$50Million Dollar contract by the TennesseeValley Authority (TVA). Underthis contract, DZNPS will provide servicesto assist in the completion of TVA’sWatts Bar Unit 2 Nuclear Plant in SpringCity, Tennessee. DZNPS will be providingmanaged task, maintenance and modification,and refurbishment services insupport of TVA and their partners. Thiseffort will consist of the replacement,refurbishment, modification, and installationof major plant components by performingmechanical, electrical and civilwork primarily in the plant’s TurbineBuilding and other areas.Contact: Brian Hartz, telephone:(717) 391-3138, email: brian.hartz@dayzim.com.Digital ControlComputersL-3 MAPPS has won an orderfrom Atomic Energy of Canada Limited(AECL) to replace the Gentilly-2 NuclearGenerating Station’s Digital ControlComputers (DCCs). DCC systems areused to monitor and control the majorreactor and power plant functions atCANDU nuclear power plants. The DCCreplacement project is part of a plantrefurbishment project which will extendthe life of Gentilly-2 until approximatelythe year 2040.Contact: Andre Rochon, telephone:(514) 787-4953.Simulator UpgradeL-3 MAPPS has signed anagreement with Eletrobrás TermonuclearS.A. – Eletronuclear of Brazil to upgradeits Angra 2 simulator at the AlmiranteÁlvaro Alberto Nuclear Power Station.The project will commence in summer2009 and will span approximately twoyears.Contact: Andre Rochon, telephone:(514) 787-4953.PCB CapacitorsRemovalSiempelkamp Nuclear Services, Inc.(SNS) has been contracted by Argonne NationalLaboratory to remove PolychlorinatedBiphenyl (PCB) capacitors from the historicIntense Pulse Neutron Source (IPNS)Facility. Federal programmatic needs haverecently changed the state of use of thehistoric IPNS from operational status tofacility transition mode. Part of the IPNStransition scope is to safely remove anddispose off-site, approximately 350 PCBcapacitors.SNS will provide the necessaryplanning, management, labor andequipment to electrically and mechanicallydismantle, remove, package, and relocatethe capacitors to a staging area prior todisposal.Contact: Steve Garner, telephone:(803) 796-2727, email: sgarner@siempelkamp-na.com.DOC ApprovalThe United States Department ofCommerce (DOC) approved a contractfor the JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX),Russia, to supply low enriched uranium(LEU) directly to the American utilityConstellation Energy Nuclear Group.The contract, the sixth amongst thoseconcluded between US utilities andTENEX in May-July 2009, provides forthe LEU deliveries between 2015 and2025.Contact: telephone: 7 495 545 00 45,email: tenex@tenex.ru.Engineering ContractThe Shaw Group Inc. announcedthe Maintenance and Fossil & Nuclearsegments of its Power Group andWestinghouse Electric Company havebeen awarded a new long-term alliancecontract with South Carolina Electric& Gas Company (SCE&G) to providenuclear maintenance, modification,refueling outage and design engineeringservices to its V.C. Summer NuclearStation Unit 1, located in Jenkinsville,South Carolina.The contract is an extension of therelationship established by Shaw andWestinghouse to provide engineering,procurement and construction services fortwo new AP1000 nuclear power units,V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3, operated bySCE&G and the South Carolina PublicService Authority (Santee Cooper).Under the new contract, Shaw willprovide maintenance, modification,refueling outage and design engineeringservices to V.C. Summer Unit 1immediately and Units 2 and 3 once theyare complete. Units 2 and 3 are scheduledfor commercial operation dates of 2016and 2019, respectively.Contact: Gentry Brann, telephone:(225) 987-7372, email: gentry.brann@shawgrp.com.16 www.NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, September-October 2009