Nuclear Plant Journal - Digital Versions

Corporation...Continued from page 10Steam Generator OrderMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.(MHI) received an order from Electricitede France (EDF) for three steam generators(SGs), following international bidding.The bid was made jointly with ComexNucleaire SA (CxN), with which MHIhas cooperative relationship since 2002.The SGs will replace those at pressurizedwater reactors (PWRs) in France as partof the renewal of those facilities. MHI isslated to deliver the first unit in 2016.Each SG will measure about 21m(almost 69 feet) high and weigh 300 tons.They will be manufactured at MHI’s KobeShipyard & Machinery Works. MHI hasso far received orders for a total of 15 SGunits.Contact: website: www.mhi.co.jp/en/news.Courses for ScienceTeachers and EngineersNuclear Plant Journal is Offeringtwo Web-Based Radiation Courses forscience teachers and engineers. Bothcourses are in partnership with IllinoisInstitute of Technology, Chicago whichoffers the needed credit hours for thesecourses. The courses do not have anyprerequisites.The course for science teachers is aeight week course and starts on October11, 2010 and provides three graduatecredit hours from Illinois Institute ofTechnology, Chicago.The course for engineers is valuablefor professional engineers interested incontinuing their professional engineeringlicense, as it provides 24 professionaldevelopment hours (2.4 CEUs) fromIllinois Institute of Technology Chicago.Both courses have eight week programwith several lessons each week, wherestudents go through the lessons, take testsand get involved in other interesting andeducating Internet-based activities. At thesuccessful completion of the courses, thecertificates are issued by Illinois Instituteof Technology, Chicago.Contact: Kruti Patel, telephone:(630) 243-5130, email: Kruti@goinfo.com, website: www.radiationtraining.comRosatomRosatom, Russia is exhibiting inWorld Energy Congress, Montréal, Canada,September 12-16, 2010.Contact: Daria Siko, telephone:7 495 663 38 21, fax: 7 495 663 38 20,email: d.siko@rosatom.info, website:www.atomexpo.ru.Hot Functional TestingUranium Disposition ServicesLLC (UDS), a joint venture of AREVA,EnergySolutions and Burns and Roe,has achieved a significant milestone inits DUF6 project. On May 24, 2010, theU.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issuedconsent to begin Hot Functional Testing ofthe facility located at the DOE Portsmouthsite in Ohio.The Portsmouth facility, and a sisterplant under construction in Paducah,Kentucky, will convert 700,000 metric tonsof depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF 6)into uranium oxide (UO 2), the most benignwaste form with the safest dispositionoptions, and aqueous hydrogen fluoride(HF), which can be sold commercially.The Portsmouth facility will covert 13,500metric tons of DUF 6per year and isexpected to operate until 2037. The plantsuse a proprietary AREVA process fordeflourination of the UF 6.Hot Functional Testing is expected tocontinue for six months to confirm that theplant meets capacity requirements.Contact: Laurence Pernot, telephone:(301) 841-1694, email: Laurence.pernot@areva.com.Uranium EnrichmentThe URENCO USA uraniumenrichment facility, located in New Mexico,received authorization from the USNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)that it may begin accepting operationaldelivery of uranium hexafluoride feedstock. The authorization allows URENCOUSA (formerly the National EnrichmentFacility) to begin commercial operationsenriching uranium for use as nuclear fuel.URENCO USA will begin themethodical process of safely transitioningthe plant to fully operational status. Whendone, the company will provide both theUS and international customers with a USbased supply of nuclear fuel.Contact: Don Johnson, telephone:(575) 394-6099, email: dajohnson@nefnm.com.Cleaning TechnologyWestinghouse Electric Companyachieved a significant improvement inthe thermal performance of the SeabrookNuclear Power Station in Seabrook, N.H.,as a result of cleaning the station’s foursteam generators using the Advanced ScaleConditioning Agent (ASCA) process. Thecleaning was completed during a fall 2009plant refueling outage.The ASCA cleaning at Seabrook wasthe twenty-fifth application of the technologyfor Westinghouse or its licenseessince 2002. The ASCA cleaning agentsare designed to loosen hardened depositsfrom the in-bundle areas of the steamgenerator tube bundles. Seabrook gained10 pounds per square inch (psi) of steampressure after the Westinghouse cleaningand the plant restart, which translates toimproved operating efficiencies for theplant. Also during the cleaning process,approximately 2,300 pounds of magnetitecorrosion product deposits and copperwere removed.Contact: Kathy Szils, telephone: (724)722-5160, email: szliska@westinghouse.com.New OfficeWestinghouse Electric CompanyLLC opened a new office in the heart ofPrague, Czech Republic. The new office,which is Westinghouse’s third in the CzechRepublic, was officially opened during thefirst week in May, 2010.Westinghouse opened the additionaloffice in order to increase its capacity tosupport the Czech government and CEZfor the current and future expansion of theCzech nuclear program. Westinghouse isalso seeking to support an expansion of itsexisting services to the operating nuclearpower plant at Temelin Units 1 and 2.Contact: Scott Shaw, telephone: (412)374-6737, email: shawsa@westinghouse.com.CranesNuCrane Manufacturing LLC (Nu-Crane) has begun fabricating, assemblingand testing specialty cranes for nuclearpower plants, including the Westinghouse-designedAP1000 plants underconstruction in China and those plannedfor future construction in the U.S.NuCrane, a joint venture betweenWestinghouse Electric Company subsidiaryPaR Nuclear, Inc. of Shoreview, Minnesotaand Hutchinson Manufacturing,Inc., (HMI) of Hutchinson, Minnesota,was formed in September 2009 to manufacturelarge cranes primarily for the U.S.market.Contact: Vaughn Gilbert, telephone:(412) 374-4896, email: gilberhv@westinghouse.com.14 www.NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, July-August 2010