Advanced Nuclear Power - AREVA

First Motor Arrives at
Pump and Motor Service Center
Even before Framatome ANP’s
new Pump & Motor Service
Center in Lynchburg, Virginia,
officially opened on August 3, 2004, a
reactor coolant pump (RCP) motor
from PSEG Nuclear’s Salem Nuclear
Station arrived for refurbishment.
This Salem RCP motor represents the
second one Framatome ANP has
received from its alliance partner and
is due to return to site in early 2005.
This spare motor will be installed
during Salem’s Spring 2005 refueling
outage, thereby freeing up another
motor for refurbishment.
Although the company has been
refurbishing and repairing pumps and
motors in its other facilities and/or
at customers’ sites, this world-class
6500-square-metres facility greatly
enhances Framatome ANP’s
capabilities. Combined with the
capabilities of Framatome ANP’s
subsidiary, Jeumont in France, and
the recent teaming agreements with
Sulzer (OEM for Sulzer and Bingham
pumps) and Siemens (OEM for
Allis Chalmers and Siemens-Allis
motors), the company can now
inspect, refurbish or repair all types
of primary and auxiliary pumps
(RCP and recirculating) and motors
and seals for most reactor types.
Begun in August 2001, “the center’s
design is based on Framatome ANP’s
extensive experience in refurbishing
and servicing pumps and motors,”
said Buddy Jolley, Manager of Pump
and Motors. It is designed to handle
all makes and models of pumps
and motors.
This largest facility of this type in the
US features:
• a 2800-square-metres machine shop
for radiologically contaminated parts
Separated into small groups, dignitaries and customers were
given an extensive tour of the state-of-the-art center.
• a drive-through truck bay area with
negative pressure
• a specially designed baking oven
• decontamination booth with both
washing and drying capability
• a painting/coating cell
• a precision 22,700 kilogram
balancing machine
• a 6-metres lathe with a
2-metres swing
• a motor test room
• 15-, 25- and 75-ton cranes
• a full-scale motor test area
In addition, the facility has an area
devoted to fuel field services, a large
storage bay, offices, plus a full-scale
wetted reactor vessel mockup and pit.
Framatome ANP has serviced more
than 50 pump and motor projects
in the US alone and performed over
40 primary pump replacements
and inspections. This is in addition to
the more than 200 pump and motor
projects the company has performed
worldwide as well as hundreds of
inspections on primary motors and
hydraulic components and over 25
vibration analysis/diagnostic/balance
service contracts, in just the last
six years.
The combination of Framatome ANP’s
engineering, product knowledge and
resources, plus a state-of-the-art facility
will enable the company to change
the performance and life expectancy
of the installed pumps and motors.
This in turn, will increase customers’
competitiveness and profitability.
The company not only refurbishes the
pumps and motors but often they are
returned to the customer with better
performance and higher efficiency than
the original, thus not only extending
their functional life but also reducing
customers’ capital requirements.
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