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China AREVA will carry out engineering The Commission’s targeted schedule The fi rst unit of Ling Ao phase II work on the plant’s nuclear island, as can be found in the commission’s charter (unit 3) nuclear power plant entered well as a new state-of-the-art digital or on http://brc.gov, which states “A commercial operation in China on Instrumentation and Control (I&C) draft report shall be submitted within September 20, 2010. This unit will system and an advanced control room. 18 months of the date of the Presidential TM supply electricity to the Guangdong The group’s TELEPERM XS recently memorandum directing establishment of province. The plant was synchronized to became the fi rst digital I&C system this Commission; a fi nal report shall be the grid in July this year and the output licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory submitted within 24 months of the date of the turbine generator has progressively Commission. of that memorandum.” This means our increased since then. Construction of the Contact: Julien Duperray, telephone: draft is due on July 29, 2011 and our fi nal plant began in 2005 and the fi rst unit has 33 1 34 96 12 15, fax: 33 1 34 96 16 54, report due January 29, 2012. entered operation earlier than scheduled. email: [email protected]. Contact: Blue Ribbon Commission, The turbine generator package of the email: [email protected], website: plant has been constructed by Alstom Enrichment Plant http://brc.gov. in partnership with China’s Dongfang More than 100 customers from 14 Electric Corporation, Ldt (DECL) for countries joined Anne Lauvergeon, CEO ASTRID China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. of AREVA, for the inauguration of the AREVA and CEA have signed an ltd (CNPEC). group’s new Georges Besse II enrichment agreement on initial design studies for a Work on the second unit of phase plant on December 14, 2010. prototype of the fourth generation sodium- II (unit 4) is in full swing and the unit is All eyes were on the fi rst container cooled fast reactor known as ASTRID expected to enter commercial operation of uranium as it entered the plant, (Advanced Sodium Technological in 2011. Once operational, Ling Ao phase marking a decisive step in this major Reactor for Industrial Demonstration). II (2 X 1080MW) will become the largest construction project. The teams will now This will allow the French government to nuclear power plant in the important be concentrating on increasing the plant’s decide in 2017 whether to go ahead with Guangdong province. The other plants in production capacity by adding further the construction of this demonstration the province, Ling Ao phase I (units 1&2) modules. Full capacity is expected in facility. and Daya Bay (units 1&2) are also based 2016, two years ahead of schedule. The agreement follows the Act of June on Alstom technology. Contact: Patricia Marie, telephone: 28, 2006 on sustainable management of Contact: Sapna Lalwani, telephone: 33 1 34 96 12 15, fax: 33 1 34 96 16 54, nuclear waste and material, the Program 41 56 556 3342, email: sapna.lalwani@ email: [email protected]. for Future Investment and the CEA’s power.alstom.com. agreement with the French government Blue Ribbon Commission signed on September 9, 2010 that gives Bellefonte Unit 1 The Blue Ribbon Commission the CEA responsibility for the prototype AREVA has been awarded a contract (BRC) has been in information gather- design. This is the fi rst industrial by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) ing mode and this has been accomplished partnership set up around this project. for engineering and development work by several site visits and several public This cooperative effort will bring toward the potential completion of the Full Commission meetings and subcom- together the CEA’s R&D teams and Bellefonte Unit 1 nuclear power plant in mittee meetings, in Washington, DC and AREVA’s experience in the design northern Alabama. elsewhere. Site visits include: Hanford, of nuclear reactors. AREVA will be The TVA Board recently approved Idaho National Lab, The DOE’s Savan- responsible for designing the nuclear funding for the next phase of the plant’s nah River Site, and Maine Yankee Inde- steam supply system, the nuclear development. Construction of the plant was pendent Spent Fuel Storage Installation auxiliaries and the instrumentation and suspended years ago. The funding covers (ISFSI). The Commission is also head- control system. engineering, licensing, and procurement ing out to the WIPP for a site tour and For its part, the CEA will lead the of long-lead materials in support of a holding public meetings in Carlsbad and overall project and will design the reactor possible start-up date in the 2018-2019 Albuquerque. The Commission has also core and fuel. Partnerships for other timeframe. TVA has determined it would traveled to Finland and Sweden and will essential engineering work packages, complete its Integrated Resource Plan likely be traveling to Japan and France. such as civil engineering and the turbine, prior to making its decision to complete All of these meetings and their associated are currently being fi nalized. construction of Bellefonte Unit 1. documentation can be found on the brc The joint effort by AREVA and the webpage (http://brc.gov) on the events CEA will involve more than 250 persons tab and on the subcommittee tabs.

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 8 22/14/2011/14/2011 1:59:341:59:34 PPMM by the end of 2010, and exceed 350 by the Recycling Center GEH is urging the commission to end of 2012. With a special commission evaluating recommend that the White House and Contact: Patrick Cappe de Baillon, options to help the U.S. Department of Congress support the deployment of its telephone: 33 1 64 50 20 11, email: Energy develop a scientifi cally sound and next-generation recycling technology, [email protected]. economically viable strategy to deal with citing its signifi cant environmental and the growing stockpiles of used nuclear fuel economic advantages over existing, less ESBWR from commercial reactors, GE Hitachi effi cient reprocessing methods. GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Nuclear Energy (GEH) announced Contact: Michael Tetuan, telephone: (GEH) announced its next-generation its Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) (910) 819-7055, email: Michael.tetuan@ reactor model, the Economic Simplifi ed technology has been approved as a part ge.com. Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), has of GE’s ecomagination™ portfolio. The passed a crucial safety review performed ARC technology offers the industry just ITER by an advisory committee for the U.S. that Ð a new, cost-effective way of treating The ITER licensing process took Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). used nuclear fuel. a major step forward on December 14, Completion of this review clears a key The Obama administration convened 2010, when the ITER Organization hurdle in the company’s bid for design the blue ribbon commission to help received a letter from the French Authority certifi cation of the ESBWR, which now address potential public health and non- stating that the submitted safety fi les were begins the federal rulemaking process. proliferation concerns associated with “receivable”. A statement that is obviously This sets the stage for fi nal NRC the now-scuttled plan to open a long- good news as it will allow the authorities certifi cation by the fall of 2011. term storage facility at Yucca Mountain to launch the technical examination of Contact: Michael Tetuan, telephone: (910) in Nevada as well as other used fuel- the fi les, the fi rst milestone within a long 819-7055, email: [email protected]. management practices. (Continued on page 10)

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process that comprises the technical While the three organizations the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear examination of the fi les by various already enjoy a cooperative relationship, Energy, referred to as the U.S.-Russia technical bodies and a public part. including exchanging information on 123 Agreement. Following the letter, Deputy fast reactor (FR) development, they will The agreement offers signifi cant Director-General Carlos Alejaldre, Head expand the scope of their cooperation benefi ts to the United States: a solid of the ITER Safety Quality and Security toward the joint design and development foundation for long-term U.S.-Russia Department, this week participated in a of FRs, getting private manufacturers civil nuclear cooperation; commercial kick-off meeting at the ASN Headquarters involved, with the new MOU replacing opportunities for U.S. industry; and in Paris, where the preliminary analysis of the previous one. enhanced cooperation on important the fi les comprising more than 5000 pages Contact: Japan Atomic Industrial global nonproliferation goals. was presented. “This is a crucial stage for Forum, website: www.jaif.or.jp/english. The commitment to bringing the 123 all of us”, Carlos Alejaldre said, “both for Agreement into force was highlighted the authorities and for us. As ITER is the NPP in Japan in the July 6, 2009 Joint Statement on fi rst fusion device ever that has to pass the On September 29, 2010, the Japan Nuclear Cooperation issued by Presidents nuclear licensing procedure we are setting Atomic Power Company (JAPC), Toshiba Obama and Medvedev. This agreement the precedent for future projects.” Corporation and Marubeni Utility provides the basis for joint efforts on ITER is a large-scale scientifi c Services, Ltd. announced that they had innovative nuclear energy systems and experiment that aims to demonstrate signed a memorandum of understanding technologies, reliable nuclear fuel cycle that it is possible to produce commercial with the National Nuclear Center of the services, joint ventures in third countries, energy from fusion. From 50 MW of input Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC) on a and other types of cooperation. power, the ITER machine is designed to preliminary study for a nuclear power Contact: Government of the United produce 500 MW of fusion power - the plant (NPP) project in Kazakhstan. States of America, website: http://www. fi rst of all fusion experiments to produce The memorandum outlines the content america.gov/. net energy. and scope of technical cooperation for the Contact: Takayuki Shirao, email: preliminary study, which is expected to takayuki.shirao@iter.org. lead to a feasibility study on constructing a NPP in Kazakhstan. Agreements Under the memorandum, JAPC, as The Japanese government has begun an electric power company, will provide Annual negotiations on nuclear cooperation overall coordination and support to the Editorial agreements with South Africa and study, and will make proposals regarding Schedule Vietnam, on September 23 and 24, 2010 such matters as estimating construction January-February respectively. Similar negotiations are also costs, promulgating laws and regulations, International Trade & underway with South Korea and India. preparing schedules, and setting up an Waste & Fuel Japan already concluded nuclear operating body. Management cooperation agreements with six Toshiba Corporation will help March-April Plant Maintenance & Plant Life countriesÐCanada, the United Kingdom, develop the plant concept, and Marubeni Extension France, Australia, China and the United Utility Services will help determine its May-June StatesÐas well as with the European economic feasibility, including fi nancial Outage Mgmt. & Health Physics Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). evaluations and possible fi nancing. July-August Contact: Japan Atomic Industrial Contact: Japan Atomic Industrial New Plants & Vendor Advertorial Forum, website: www.jaif.or.jp/english. Forum, website: www.jaif.or.jp/english. September-October Plant Maintenance & Fast Breed Reactor Russia Advanced Reactors The Japan Atomic Energy Agency U.S. Ambassador to Russia John November-December (JAEA) signed a new memorandum of Beyrle and Russian Deputy Foreign Annual Product & understanding (MOU) on joint R&D Minister Sergey Ryabkov exchanged Service Directory on fast breeder reactors (FBRs) with diplomatic notes on January 12, 2011 to France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic bring into force the Agreement between Contact: Energy Commission (CEA) and the U.S. the Government of the United States [email protected] Department of Energy (USDOE). of America and the Government of the telephone: Russian Federation for Cooperation in (630) 364-4780

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Utility Nuclear Energy Community Support Workshop While generating electricity is its core Organizational Changes Local science and math teachers business, Exelon Nuclear’s Braidwood Duke Energy has announced Ron learned how their students can one Station prides itself on being a good Jones as senior vice president nuclear day become scientists, engineers and neighbor. In 2010, employees raised more development and Bill Pitesa as senior technicians in the nuclear industry than $217,000 during its annual United vice president nuclear operations for during a Power Path to Nuclear Energy Way Campaign, a new station record. Duke Energy’s nuclear fl eet. workshop hosted recently by Entergy Braidwood Station employees Jones has more than 30 years New Orleans, Inc. have a long tradition of supporting their experience in the nuclear fi eld. He joined Power Path is designed to fuel community and this year they again Duke Energy in 1980 as an engineer at interest in nuclear science and power participated through the company’s Catawba Nuclear Station, where he later production through innovative learning payroll deduction program. Their became a licensed senior reactor operator. materials for students in grades 6-12. donations will go to several local United He served as operations superintendent Twenty-two public schoolteachers Way chapters. at McGuire Nuclear Station and later representing various schools throughout In addition to the $204,000 raised became station manager at both Catawba Orleans Parish attended the free workshop by employees in its annual campaign, and Oconee nuclear stations. Jones was in Entergy New Orleans’ auditorium to Braidwood Station employees also do- also site vice president at Oconee Nuclear learn more about the program. nate money each year to a local United Station before assuming the senior vice Contact: Ann Becker, telephone; Way agency. In 2010 Braidwood Station president nuclear operations role in (601) 368-5014, email: abecker@entergy. employees donated an additional $13,000 2005. com. to Cornerstone Services. Cornerstone Pitesa also joined Duke Energy in Services provides progressive, compre- 1980 as an engineer at McGuire Nuclear Safety Award hensive services for people with disabili- Station. He received his senior reactor The Shaw Group’s Maintenance ties, promoting choice, dignity and the operator license in 1986. He served as Division honored project sites for their opportunity to live and work in the com- operations training manager, operations 2009 safety performance. The company munity. superintendent and station manager at presented the division’s top honor, the In 2010, Braidwood Station and its Catawba Nuclear Station before becoming President’s Safety Award, to the team at employees donated more than $300,000 vice president of nuclear support. Pitesa Entergy’s Waterford 3 Steam Electric to local and regional non-profi t groups. assumed his current position in 2010. Station for demonstrating outstanding Contact: Neal Miller, telephone: Contact: Rita Sipe, telephone: (704) commitment to safety. (815) 417-3184, email: neal.miller@ 382-8609. In 2009, the Shaw team at Waterford exeloncorp.com. completed more than 520,000 hours Educational Support of work with no recordable event as License Renewal A high-impact initiative providing defi ned by the Occupational Safety and STP Nuclear Operating Company educational, recreational and enrichment Health Administration. No recordable has fi led an application with the Nuclear programming for public school students in event means that the team worked many Regulatory Commission (NRC) to East Feliciana Parish is being relaunched labor-intensive hours and did not suffer extend the operating licenses of its two- through a grant from Entergy Louisiana anything that required more than minor unit facility an additional 20 years. The L.L.C., Entergy Gulf States Louisiana fi rst aid. extension would allow the two units Ð with LLC and nearby River Bend Station They also achieved more than one a combined capacity of 2,700 megawatts nuclear power plant. million safe work hours in 2010, with the Ð to continue operating through 2047 and The Fifth Day Program, so called last OSHA recordable in March 2007. 2048, respectively. because the school district operates on This safety milestone included staffi ng The 2,000-page application specifi es a four-day school week, offers students for 127 plant outage days when there is STP’s compliance with license renewal an extra day for additional learning the most intense activity. Nuclear plants requirements for critical systems, opportunities. The program also provides run continuously until they need to add structures and components that are needed a safe environment for youth of working new fuel. During these outages, there to safely operate the plant. The document families. is increased activity to shorten the time details how the company manages facility Contact: Ann Becker, telephone; offl ine. aging to ensure those plant elements will (601) 368-5014, email: abecker@entergy. Contact: Carl Rhode, telephone: (Continued on page 14) com. (504) 739-6205, email: crhode@entergy. com.

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maintain their intended functions during Nuclear Engineering many more plan to transition to OLNC in extended operation. The International Electrotechnical the next few years. EPRI will continue The submittal begins an NRC review Commission (IEC) Technical Committee to monitor fuel performance to increase process that will last approximately two (TC) 45 is seeking expertise in criticality confi dence that this technology has no years and include multiple opportunities monitoring and nuclear safeguards moni- negative impact on fuel performance. for community input and participation. toring, in nuclear engineering. Those spe- Contact: Aylin Kucuk, telephone: The NRC will conduct audits and cialties are required to guarantee that the (650) 855-2124, email: akucuk@epri. inspections at STP throughout 2011 and IEC develops and maintains the best, most com. hold public meetings in Bay City. License contemporary standards for instrumenta- renewal approval is anticipated in 2012. tion related to those important activities. Pump Repairs Contact: Buddy Eller, telephone: The recent general meeting of the IEC in EPRI has developed a new web- (361) 216-8303, email: beller@stpegs. Seattle attended by nearly 3,000 experts based resource that will enable nuclear com. from some 57 countries concluded with plant operators to more easily access EPRI the need for those practitioners to actively products related to pump maintenance and Industry contribute to some new standards. troubleshooting. The resource includes a Contact: Morgan Cox, telephone: nuclear industry pump database, pump Graduate Fellowships (216) 548-0121, email: morgancx@swcp. repair specifi cations, and self assessment The “New York- Nuclear Research com. aids. Opportunities Program (NROP)” at City The pump database catalogs all College of New York (CCNY) will offer Noble Metal Injection major pumps currently installed in U.S. graduate fellowships to fi ve Master of The use of noble metal injection to nuclear power plants. The ability to iden- Science (M.S.) or Master of Engineering mitigate intergranular stress corrosion tify other plants with similar equipment (M. Eng.) students and one Ph.D. cracking (IGSCC) of stainless steel re- enables users to initiate dialogue regard- student in 2011-2015. This program is actor internals in boiling water reactors ing common maintenance issues and ef- intended to provide minority students has grown signifi cantly over the past 15 fective maintenance strategies. The self with the research experience, advanced years, but there have been lingering con- assessment tools enable users to evaluate, knowledge, and skills needed to pursue cerns about potential impacts on nuclear for example, their in-plant and corporate successful careers in the nuclear industry, fuel performance. EPRI has conducted programs for managing the reliability and National Laboratories, or government surveillance campaigns at several plants health of critical pumps. agencies such as Nuclear Regulatory to evaluate the potential impacts of noble The Nuclear Maintenance and Commission and Department of Energy. metals on fuel performance. Application Center developed this NROP Fellows will be selected The fi rst generation of this web-based delivery tool as a prototype from American citizens and permanent technology, known as classic Noble Metal for future product deliveries. Features residents based on their past academic Chemical Application (NMCA), involves include drop-down menus, search tools performance, interests, and motivation to the injection of platinum and rhodium and other common web methods for pursue careers in the nuclear fi eld. into the feedwater at end-of-cycle and is quickly locating resources. NROP Fellows will conduct applied every 4 to 4.5 years. The second The pump resource is located at: numerical and experimental investigations generation of noble metal technology, http://membercenter.epri.com/ of problems relevant to the design, known as On-Line NobleChem (OLNC), programs/065755/Pages/Unique%20 operation, and safety of current and involves platinum injection into the Pages/PumpResource.aspx. future nuclear reactors in the Nuclear feedwater over 10-14 days each year Access is controlled through EPRI Thermal-hydraulics and Safety Research while the unit is at greater than 85% membership (EPRI ID and password Laboratory at the Energy Institute located power. OLNC provides greater fl exibility needed). The web page will be maintained in the Grove School of Engineering at to plant operators. and updated by the Pump Users Group CCNY. Based on the positive experience as new technology and information Contact: Charles Watkins, telephone: thus far, both from an IGSCC mitigation emerges. (212) 650-5439, email: Watkins@ccny. and a fuel performance perspective, the Contact: Mike Pugh, telephone: cuny.edu. industry is rapidly transitioning from (919) 812-5162m email: mpugh@epri. classic NMCA to OLNC. Currently, 13 com. BWR units have implemented OLNC and

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 1414 22/14/2011/14/2011 1:59:531:59:53 PPMM Water System Chemistry array ultrasound provided the highest Alstom’s ARABELLETM nuclear steam EPRI is revising the Service performance for accurate depth sizing in turbines, the most powerful steam turbines Water System Chemistry Guidelines dissimilar metal piping welds. If access in the world, as well as steam turbines for to incorporate technical advances and to the fl awed surface is not possible, a fossil fuel applications. A second MoU operating experience related to selecting combination of phased array ultrasound with the INTER RAO UES - Worley chemicals for treating microbiological and conventional ultrasound appears to Parsons (IRWP) joint venture was signed growth, macrobiological growth, be the most effective alternative. to establish an engineering consortium to corrosion, suspended solids fouling and Contact: telephone: (301) 415-8200, jointly design turbine islands for Russia’s scaling in nuclear power plant service fax: (301) 415-8200. VVER reactor-based nuclear power plants. water systems. Service water systems Contact: Philippe Kasse, telephone: satisfy cooling water needs for both Corporation 33 1 41 49 29 82. safety-related and non-safety-related heat exchange equipment, including Control System Enrichment Plant closed cooling heat exchangers, diesel Alstom successfully completed the AREVA and EDF have reached an generator coolers, residual heat removal installation of a new control system for agreement extending operation of the heat exchangers, lubricating oil coolers, block 3 of the Ringhals nuclear power EURODIF enrichment plant (located at bearing coolers and room coolers. plant in Sweden in a record time. Georges Besse II in France) until the end The updated guidance also responds The Automation & controls project of 2012 and laying down the operating to recent regulatory interest in service team had only 30 days to implement conditions for 2011-2012. water systems. In Generic Letter 89-13 the new control system. The system has Under the agreement, EURODIF will (Safety Implication of Control Systems), passed an exhaustive series of operational start operating at its minimum technical for example, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory testing since Ringhals 3 fi rst synchronized capacity as soon as possible, with EDF Commission laid the groundwork for to the grid in mid-October. supplying the electricity for the next two forthcoming evaluations of nuclear This is the last important milestone years. service water systems at U.S. nuclear of the integrated retrofi t of the complete Contact: Patricia Marie, telephone: power plants. turbo group systems of block 3 at 33 1 34 96 12 96. The revision, which will replace Ringhals. The commissioning of the the original guidelines issued in 1996 new control system enabled the plant to Fuel Fabrication (TR-106229), will be released in 2012. deliver full power output in time for the During the offi cial visit to France of Meetings will be held both inside and increasing winter demand. Kazakh President on October 27, 2010, outside the United States to ensure a wide Contact: Nathan McConnell, Nursultan Nazarbayev, AREVA CEO, range of perspectives are factored into the telephone: 41 56 205 4032, email: Anne Lauvergeon, and KAZATOMPROM revision. [email protected]. Chairman of the Board Vladimir Contact: Joel McElrath, telephone: Shkolnik signed an agreement to create (650) 714-4557, email: jmcelrath@epri. Strategic Agreements a fuel fabrication joint-venture. This new com. Alstom signed on December 9, agreement emphasizes the determination 2010 in Moscow strategic agreements of both companies to reinforce their Nickel Alloy Inspection with major Russian energy companies to strategic partnership in the fi eld of front- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory jointly provide power generation products end nuclear cycle. Commission (NRC) executed agreements and services for Russia’s power industry. The new company, owned 51 % with organizations in Japan, Sweden, In the fi eld of nuclear power by KAZATOMPROM and 49 % by South Korea, Finland, and the United generation, Alstom Power and the Russian AREVA, is to build a new fuel assembly States to establish the Program for state atomic energy corporation Rosatom, manufacturing line based on the AREVA Inspection of Nickel Alloy Components the regulatory body of the Russian nuclear design for the Ulba facility, located in the (PINC). infrastructure, under the 2007-established East of Kazakhstan. The new 400-ton per A series of round-robin tests were joint venture Alstom-Atomenergomash year capacity unit is scheduled to start conducted by teams from Europe, (AAEM), signed several new agreements operating in 2014. Japan, Korea, and the United States. The to further support Russia’s growing nuclear Contact: Patricia Marie, telephone: results from this effort showed that a energy market. One MoU details plans 33 1 34 96 12 96. combination of conventional and phased to set up a local facility to manufacture

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Fuel Supply enough low carbon electricity to serve two tion services operation with a new offi ce In the presence of Indian Prime million homes. EDF Energy took the deci- opening in Overland Park, KS. The new Minister, Manmohan Singh, French sion to bring Sizewell B offl ine in March offi ce location is strategic to regional President Nicolas Sarkozy and Dr. following the failure of some heaters in the growth expectations with current nuclear Srikumar Banerjee, Chairman of India’s pressuriser. clients in the Midwest. Atomic Energy Commission, AREVA Throughout this project, Babcock Contact: Peggy Striegel, telephone: and Nuclear Power Corporation of India worked as a Tier 2 supplier to AREVA. (918) 258-3536, email: peggy@striegela. Limited (NPCIL) signed major agreements The Babcock team assisted in the com. for the construction of two EPR reactors, defuelling and refuelling of the reactor the fi rst of a series of 6, at Jaitapur in the alongside the AREVA US team. The Isolation Valves western state of Maharashtra, and for the Babcock team also operated the means Flowserve Corporation, a provider supply of fuel for 25 years. of entry for tools and equipment into of fl ow control products and services The agreements were signed by the containment area Ð the Equipment for the global infrastructure markets, Dr. S.K. Jain, Chairman and Managing Access Hatch - while their expert Control announced two multimillion-dollar orders Director of NPCIL and Anne Lauvergeon, and Instrument technicians supported from China Nuclear Power Engineering CEO of AREVA. radwaste operations around the clock. Co. Ltd. (CNPE) and China Nuclear Contact: Julien Duperray, telephone: Contact: Sarah Cockburn-Price, Energy Industry Corp(CNEIC) for main 33 1 34 96 12 15, email: press@areva. telephone: 01282 868008, email: sarah@ steam isolation valves (MSIVs). com. cockburn-price.com. The Flowserve Edward MSIVs are planned to be used at the CPR- Rolling Capability Advanced Certifi cations 1000 design Fuqing Units 3 and 4, and AT&F Steel, a division of AT&F, is BIRNS, Inc., who is ISO 9001:2008- Tianwan Units 5 and 6. All four units unveiling massive new rolling capabilities certifi ed in the design and manufacturing are currently under construction and to roll plates up to 12" (300MM) thick of high performance connectors, penetra- scheduled to be operational in 2016 and and 14' (4.3M) long in single-piece tors, custom cable assemblies and lights 2017, respectively. Flowserve booked the construction. announced the two newest levels of ad- orders in the third quarter of 2010. AT&F Steel’s multi-million dollar vanced certifi cation of its team of ex- Contact: Steve Boone, telephone: expansion of rolling capabilities is in pert electrical technicians, assembly and (972) 443-6644. response to the increased demand for inspection personnel. The entire team heavy fabricating in the United States. recently achieved new J-STD-001 Class ABWR In addition to the greater thickness and 3 and WHMA-A-620-A Class 3 certifi ca- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) length capacity of the machine, the roll tion to add to the company’s list of rigor- has submitted its application to the will form cylindrical components to ous industry qualifi cations. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission diameters as large as required. The J-STD-001 Class 3 is a standard (NRC) to renew the certifi cation for its AT&F Steel provides component prescribing practices and requirements proven Advanced Boiling Water Reactor parts and fabrications to a wide range of for the manufacture of soldered electrical (ABWR) technology. Among its benefi ts, industries. and electronic assemblies, and among the the ABWR design provides greater A complete range of welding pro- upper echelon of soldering certifi cation certainty over the costs for building new cesses, all in accordance with the ap- in the marine market and for the DoD nuclear power plants. propriate industry specifi cations, meets (Department of Defense). GEH is seeking to extend the design any customer requirement. In-house The WHMA-A-620-A Class 3 is certifi cation for 15 years beyond June 2012, non-destructive testing, heattreating and focused on requirement and acceptance when its original ABWR certifi cation is shot-blasting are a few of the many other specifi cally for cable and wire harness set to expire. The application includes services available. assemblies. an important design update to refl ect the Contact: Kevin Cantrell, telephone: Contact: Amy Brown, telephone: current NRC requirement for an aircraft (216) 252-1500, email: cantrellk@atfco. (805) 487-5393, email: abrown@birns. impact assessment. com. com. Contact: Michael Tetuan, telephone: (910) 819-7055, email: Michael.tetuan@ Sizewell B Expansion ge.com. BABCOCK made a signifi cant con- ENERCON, an engineering, envi- tribution to bringing Sizewell B power ronmental, technical and management station, United Kingdom, back online services fi rm headquartered in Tulsa, last month. The station is again generating continues to expand their power genera-

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 1616 22/14/2011/14/2011 1:59:531:59:53 PPMM MOU a major shipyard, and RAFAKO S.A., GEH developed its analysis method- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) Europe’s leading boiler equipment ology to address NRC questions regarding and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, manufacturer, to pursue opportunities to the ability of U.S. utilities to predict how LLC, (SRNS) announced the signing of build nuclear components for GEH. BWR steam dryers respond under current a memorandum of understanding (MOU) State-owned utility PGE Polska or future production requirements. to explore the potential of deploying Grupa Energetyczna S.A. (PGE) is leading Contact: Michael Tetuan, telephone: a prototype of GEH’s Generation IV Poland’s efforts to develop the country’s (910) 819-7055, email: Michael.tetuan@ PRISM reactor as part of a proposed fi rst two nuclear generating stations and ge.com. demonstration of small modular reactor is currently evaluating several reactor technologies at the U.S. Department of technologies for these plants, including Dry Storage Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site. two GEH reactor designs: the 1,350- Holtec’s technology to place Cher- The MOU sets the stage for megawatt (MWe) ABWR and the 1,520- nobyl’s irradiated fuel in a storage facility continued discussions on the potential MWe ESBWR. with multiple barriers to ensure long-term NRC licensing and deployment of a 299- These MOUs are the latest of environmental isolation has been ap- megawatt (MW) PRISM reactor at the several for GEH in Poland as a growing proved by the State Nuclear Regulatory federally owned facility. SRNS is the number of countries prepare to build new Committee of Ukraine and by all of the management and operating contractor for nuclear power plants to generate low- country’s national institutions and minis- DOE at Savannah River Site (SRS). carbon electricity and strengthen their tries responsible for reviewing the appli- Contact: Michael Tetuan, telephone: energy security. GEH previously signed cation to protect public health and safety. (910) 819-7055, email: Michael.tetuan@ an agreement with global engineering To win the multi-agency approval Holtec ge.com. services fi rm SNC-Lavalin Polska to submitted a massive 20-volume Design collaborate on potential projects in Report, including the Safety Analysis New NPP Projects Poland. Report nearly a year ago, and answered GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Contact: Michael Tetuan, telephone: over 600 questions. The project funding (GEH) has signed memorandums of (910) 819-7055, email: Michael.tetuan@ is managed by the European Bank for understanding (MOUs) with Energy ge.com. Reconstruction and Development based Steel & Supply Co., Curtiss-Wright Flow in London. Control and CLYDEUNION Pumps— Steam Dryer Analysis Contact: Joy Russell, telephone: to begin discussions about supplying As utilities seek to increase the (856) 797-0900, email: J.Russell@holtec. components for new nuclear power plant effi ciency, reliability and safety of their com. projects in the United States and around nuclear power stations, GE Hitachi the world. Nuclear Energy announced the U.S. Certifi ed Components GEH and DTE Energy are working Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Mackson Incorporated, a supplier of to advance the potential deployment of a (NRC) approval of a new methodology nuclear safety related and ASME code next-generation nuclear reactor design. that operators can use to more accurately materials joined forces with MetalTek Based on the NRC’s revised timetable, evaluate the condition of steam dryers in International, a provider of high the commission is on track to issue a current and future boiling water reactor value‐added metal products and services fi nal design certifi cation decision for (BWR) plants. for nuclear and other performance‐based the ESBWR in September 2011. The With utilities seeking regulatory markets. NRC review of Detroit Edison’s Fermi 3 permission to extend the operating Mackson is based in Rock Hill, SC Combined License Application based on licenses and increase the output of more of and offers nuclear‐certifi ed fasteners, the ESBWR design continues on schedule their BWR reactors, GEH developed the raw materials, structural steel and nu- for 2012. methodology to help operators evaluate merous associated products for immedi- Contact: Michael Tetuan, telephone: the condition of their steam dryers. ate delivery. Mackson provides sourcing, (910) 819-7055, email: Michael.tetuan@ Utilities must reference the steam supply chain management and product ge.com. dryer analysis when applying to the upgrade for longer lead time items sup- NRC for either a license amendment porting nuclear power installations. Nuclear Components for an existing BWR unit—such as for Since 1974 MetalTek has been providing GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) a proposed plant uprate—or a license to ASME certifi ed cast, machined and fabri- signed a memoranda of understanding build a new reactor. cated components to the commercial and (MOUs) with Poland’s Stocznia Gdansk, (Continued on page 18)

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Contact: Robert Smickley, telephone: Sandmeyer to supply stainless steel and Only 27 companies worldwide have (262) 544-7700. nickel alloy plate and plate products earned the certifi cation for repair of to the commercial nuclear power nuclear code valves. User Forum marketplace for both new construction In addition to the NR stamp, the SPX The Mirion Technologies Radiation and maintenance and repair applications. Flow Technology facility in McKean, Monitoring Systems (RMS) Division has Contact: Gary Orr, telephone: (215) Pennsylvania, was recently recertifi ed launched a new on-line user forum “MI- 698-4179. by the American Society of Mechanical RMS”, for radiation monitoring system Engineers for the ASME N and NPT professionals from around the world. Partnership stamps. The facility is also independently The secure forum allows members The Shaw Group Inc. and Toshiba certifi ed for ISO9000. to exchange valuable ideas, insights, Corporation announced an expanded Contact: Courtney Johnson, telephone: and information on any RMS product, global strategic partnership between the (262) 728-4938, email: Courtney.johnson@ issue, service and application. It is two companies. spx.com. a communication tool to clarify and Under the agreement, Shaw will establish positions on generic RMS issues have certain exclusive opportunities for AP1000 and it is an easy way to obtain solutions providing engineering, procurement and Nuclear Power Delivery UK (the team or shortcuts by asking fellow peers from construction services for new Toshiba established to deliver the Westinghouse around the world. Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) AP1000 nuclear power plant to UK Contact: Thomas O’Malley, nuclear power plants worldwide, except customers) announced that Memoranda telephone: (678) 860-6158, email: Japan and Vietnam. of Understanding (MOUs) have been [email protected]. Shaw immediately will assume signed with three of the biggest names the role of engineering, procurement in the UK nuclear industry supply chain Anniversary and construction contractor for Nuclear Ð BAE Systems, Doosan Power Systems ® The ORTEC Products Group of Innovation North America’s (NINA) and Rolls-Royce. AMETEK Advanced Measurement South Texas Project Expansion, which The specifi c contents of each MOU Technology recently celebrated the will use ABWR technology for two are confi dential, but in broad terms the fi rst full-year operation of its Detective new nuclear units, as a consortium team agreements collectively address scope Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) member with Toshiba America Nuclear to support the already broad footprint of radiation monitor at the Anthony, New Energy, a U.S. based Toshiba subsidiary. Nuclear Power Delivery UK in the UK. Mexico, Port of Entry. Shaw will invest $250 million for an Contact: Adrian Bull, telephone: The system, which is designed to ABWR alliance with Toshiba, $100 million 001772 297714, email: bullaj@ detect and identify illicit radiological and of which will be available as a credit westinghouse.com. nuclear materials that attempt to enter facility for NINA to assist in fi nancing the the United States, completed its fi rst development of the South Texas Project. Canned Motor RCP year of operation without a single day The credit facility will convert to equity Westinghouse Electric Company of downtime. The Detective-ASP portal in NINA upon the satisfaction of certain LLC, working in conjunction with EMD, monitor, driven by ORTEC’s leadership conditions including the project receiving a business unit of Curtiss-Wright Flow position in high-purity germanium (HPGe) full notice to proceed, which is expected Control Company (CWFC), is on schedule nuclear material identifi cation technology, in mid-2012. to deliver the world’s largest canned motor serves as a secondary screening for Contact: Gentry Brann, telephone: reactor coolant pumps (RCPs) for use in commercial vehicles entering the United (225) 987-7372, email: gentry.brann@ the AP1000TM nuclear power plant after States that have triggered basic alarms shawgrp.com. the initial unit successfully completed the on primary low-resolution radiation latest in a series of diagnostic testing. screening devices based on polyvinyl EMD is completing diagnostic testing toluene (PVT) scintillators. to confi rm minor design modifi cations to Contact: Susie Brockman, telephone: the RCP implemented since the start of (865) 483-2124, email: Susie.Brockman@ the fi rst AP1000 RCP testing. 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such facilities. These documents will in- disposal facility, which was chosen after Contracts clude Environmental Impact Statements, a competitive tendering exercise from a Uranium Supply Environmental Assessments, and other short-list of fi ve companies. environmental and nuclear safety techni- Subject to NDA approval and com- On the occasion of Chinese President cal studies. pletion of a number of procedures, the Hu Jintao’s visit to Paris, the AREVA AEC’s experts include Sarah Bigger, contract award is expected by the end of group signed major agreements with its Anthony Burgess, Kathryn Johnson, March. two strategic partners, China Guangdong Barbara Trenary, and Richard Weinman The contract is for the design and Nuclear Power Corp (CGNPC) and China Esq. In addition, AEC’s team consists construction of two sub-surface vaults for National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), of over a dozen proposed subcontractors. the disposal of solid low-level radioac- in the presence of the French and Chinese This team will assist the NRC in tive waste from the site clean-up. It will heads of state. performing environmental and technical be based on target cost design and build Anne Lauvergeon, AREVA CEO, studies through this contract. The contract under the NEC conditions. and He Yu, CGNPC Chairman, signed contract is expected to run three years, Up to 100 jobs will be created during a longterm contract for the supply of with two option years available for a total the construction phase, with a quarter of 20,000 tons of uranium over a 10-year of fi ve years. the work expected to be sub-contracted period. The contract is worth around 3.5 Contact: Doris Minor, telephone: to local companies. The Nuclear Decom- billion dollars. (206) 783-3208, email: doris@ missioning Authority will invest up to £4 With Sun Qin, CNNC President, attenuation.us.com. million ($5.4 million) in a community Anne Lauvergeon signed an industrial benefi t fund associated with the develop- agreement on cooperation in the fi eld Steam Generators ment. of used fuel treatment and recycling. The Babcock & Wilcox Company Contact: telephone: 44 28 9268 The document is the fi nal step towards a (B&W) announced that its subsidiary 9500, fax: 44 28 9268 9600, email: info@ commercial contract. The authorities of Babcock & Wilcox Canada, Ltd. (B&W graham.co.uk. the two countries made a joint declaration Canada), an affi liate of Babcock & Wilcox in December 2009 authorizing CNNC Nuclear Energy, Inc., has been notifi ed Energy Assessments and AREVA to enter into detailed of a contract award from Tennessee Lightbridge Corporation, an negotiations. Valley Authority (TVA) to design and innovator of advanced nuclear fuel In addition, AREVA and CNNC manufacture two steam generators for the designs and provider of nuclear energy have launched the creation of a 50/50 Bellefonte Unit 1 Plant as a part of the consulting services to commercial and joint venture, CAST (CNNC AREVA Bellefonte completion project. governmental organizations, has entered Shanghai Tubing Co.), that will produce The steam generators will be into a consulting contract with the Gulf and market zirconium tubes for the designed and manufactured by B&W Cooperation Council (GCC) Member fabrication of fuel assemblies. Located in Canada and are scheduled to be delivered States to assess regional cooperation Shanghai, the plant will start operation at to the Bellefonte site in 2015, pending a in the development of civilian nuclear the end of 2012. decision by the TVA Board to complete power programs for electricity generation Contact: Julien Duperray, telephone: construction of Unit 1. Each weighing and water desalination. 33 1 34 96 12 15, email: press@areva. approximately 500 tons, the “once- The GCC, a political and economic com. through” steam generators are designed union that comprises the Gulf states of Technical Assistance to produce superheated steam to be the Kingdom of Bahrain, State of Kuwait, transported to the turbines for electricity Sultanate of Oman, State of Qatar, Attenuation Environmental Com- generation. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United pany (AEC) of Seattle, Washington, Contact: Jud Simmons, telephone: Arab Emirates, formalized the contract has won a $5,974,592 contract from the (434) 522-6462, email: hjsimmons@ with Lightbridge and its partner Exelon U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission babcock.com. Generation Company, and other leading (NRC), Rockville, Maryland. AEC’s nuclear consultants. The studies will take Project Manager is Ms. Doris Minor, a Waste Facility place over a six-month period and will Seattle-based nuclear consultant. 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system are changed, verifi cation of equiv- a polymeric dispersant shows signifi cant Engineers (ASME) PRA Standard alency to the originally qualifi ed system promise as a measure to reduce the rate (ASME/American Nuclear Society must be performed. This report describes of accumulation of corrosion products in [ANS] RA-Sa-2009) and support an the results of the third phase of the Elec- PWR steam generators. EPRI PRA Scope and Quality project to tric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI’s) provide guidelines on internal fl ooding ongoing multi-year project that includes 5. Technical Guideline for Cyber analysis. the development of a simplifi ed, cost-ef- Security Requirements and Life Cycle 8. Fuel Reliability Monitoring and Fail- fective method of determining eddy cur- Implementation Guidelines for Nuclear ure Evaluation Handbook (2010): Revi- rent technique and substitute component Plant Digital Systems. Product ID: sion 2. Product ID: 1019107. Published equivalency. 1019187. Published October, 2010. November, 2010. This EPRI guideline document This Handbook documents the 3. New Experimental Studies of Thermal provides technical guidance for addressing current status of LWR fuel integrity Hydraulics of Rod Bundles: Generic cyber security requirements during the monitoring activities in the U.S. nuclear Analysis of OMEGA Data. Product ID: system development life cycle (SDLC) power industry, with an emphasis on 1021039. Published October, 2010. phases of a plant digital system, device, current fuel reliability methods and The New Experimental Studies of or component (digital asset) within the fuel failure mitigation techniques. The Thermal Hydraulics of Rod Bundles scope of 10 CFR 73.54 under the station Handbook contains experience-based (NESTOR) project is a multiyear col- cyber security program. knowledge, supplemented by theory and laborative endeavor of the Electric Power expert analysis and interpretation. Research Institute (EPRI), Electricité 6. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cost Comparison de France (EdF), and Commissariat à Between Once-Through and Fully Closed The above documents may be obtained l’Energie Atomique (CEA). The project Cycles. Product ID: 1021054. Published from EPRI Order and Conference Center, is aimed at elucidating thermal-hydrau- November, 2010. 1200 West WT Harris Blvd., Charlotte, lics unknowns pertaining to axial offset This report presents results from NC 28262; telephone: (800) 313-3774, anomaly (AOA) in pressurized water re- a parametric study of equilibrium fuel email: [email protected]. actor (PWR) cores. This report provides a cycle costs for a closed fuel cycle with generic analysis of certain NESTOR data multi-recycling of plutonium (Pu) and Nuclear Fuel that is a necessary fi rst step before com- minor actinides in fast reactors (FRs) Transportation mencing more detailed work on subchan- compared to an open, once-through fuel Industry efforts to license nel code-based heat transfer analyses. cycle using pressurized water reactors transportation packages for used nuclear (PWRs). The study examines the impact fuel characterized as “high-capacity” or 4. Comparison of Oxide Films Formed on fuel cycle costs from changes in containing “high-burnup” (>45 GWd/ on Alloy 690TT Steam Generator Tubes the unit costs of uranium, advanced MTU) fuel have not been successful Under Pressurized Water Reactor plutonium and uranium recovery by to date considering existing used fuel Secondary Side Conditions with and extraction (PUREX) reprocessing of inventories. EPRI has developed a multi- without Dispersant. Product ID: 1021113. discharged fast-reactor mixed-oxide (FR- faceted framework to potentially resolve Published October, 2010. MOX) fuel, and fabrication of new FR- several used fuel transportation issues. It is well known that the deposition MOX fuel containing Pu and the minor The framework considers criticality of corrosion products on the secondary actinides. risks during transportation, used fuel side heat-transfer surfaces of pressurized and caskdesign features, and defense- water reactor (PWR) steam generators 7. Pipe Rupture Frequencies for Internal in-depth in the context of current and contributes to several problems, includ- Flooding-Probabilistic Risk Assessments. potential regulations that would refl ect a ing heat-transfer effi ciency losses and Product ID: 1021086. Published risk-informed, technically state-of-the-art increases in the likelihood of steam gen- November, 2010. approach. erator tube degradation. Plant trials sup- This report updates a 2006 Electric For representative transportation ported by the Electric Power Research Power Research Institute (EPRI) report package designs, the EPRI research Institute (EPRI) and the initial results of (1013141) on piping system failure rates showed that the conditions required for long-term applications have shown that for use in probabilistic risk assessments criticality during hypothetical transporta- the use of a polymeric dispersant can (PRAs) involving internal plant fl ooding tion accidents had an extraordinarily low greatly enhance the effi ciency of blow- and high-energy line breaks (HELBs). probability of occurrence. With regard to down removal for iron oxides, the chief These estimates satisfy requirements the nuclear reactivity of a transportation corrosion product transported to the in the American Society of Mechanical package with re-confi gured fuel and wa- steam generators. Therefore, the use of

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 2626 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:00:162:00:16 PPMM ter in the fuel cavity, which has been of The Sourcebook summarizes BWR particular regulatory concern, the analy- Sourcebook and PWR system-specifi c cobalt con- Cobalt Reduction Sourcebook, sis showed that realistic and achievable tributors; reviews plant design, opera- Electric Power Research Institute. The confi gurations of nuclear fuel materials tions, and maintenance actions that may Cobalt Reduction Sourcebook includes following an impact accident could not result in higher radiation fi elds; and de- a tabulated list of available cobalt result in a critical confi guration. scribes various mitigation methods. A reduction methods, with expected costs The research highlights the impor- two-pronged cobalt reduction strategy is and estimated time required to observe tance of incorporating risk analysis into provided: 1) A tabulated list of available radiation fi eld reduction benefi ts. decisions on used fuel transportation. cobalt reduction methods, with expected The most signifi cant contributor to Misallocation of regulatory requirements costs and estimated time required to ob- both boiling water reactor (BWR) and can potentially lead to higher overall risks, serve radiation fi eld reduction benefi ts; pressurized water reactor (PWR) out of- specifi cally by increasing the number of and 2) A series of fl owcharts for imple- core radiation fi elds is elemental cobalt shipments by overly restricting payloads. menting a cobalt reduction strategy for and nickel activating to radioactive Co-60 Because non-radiological risks Ð such as BWR and PWR plants. and Co-58, respectively. collision injuries and deaths and property Contact: Dan Wells, telephone: (650) Strategies for preventing or removing damage Ð dominate transportation risks, 855-8630, email: [email protected]. cobalt from primary circuit materials payloads should be maximized to mini- are detailed in the Cobalt Reduction mize their occurrence. Sourcebook (1021103), which supersedes Contact: Albert Machiels, telephone: a 1993 guidelines document on cobalt (650) 855-2054, email: amachiel@epri. reduction (TR-103296). com.

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1. WM Symposia 2011, February 27- 9 iCAPP International Conference 16. World Nuclear Fuel Market 38th Annual March 3, 2011, Phoenix Convention Exhibition, May 2-5, 2011, Nice, Meeting and International Conference Center, Phoenix, Arizona. Contact: France. Contact: SFEN, telephone: on Nuclear Fuel, June 5-7, 2011, telephone: (520) 696-0399, website: 33 1 53 58 32 16, fax: 33 1 53 58 32 Seville, Spain. Contact: Christina www.wmsym.org. 11, email: [email protected]. DeLance, NAC International, email: 2. International Topical Meeting on 10. Used Fuel Management Conference, telephone: (678) 328-1281, fax: (678) Probabilistic Safety Assessment May 3-5, 2011, Baltimore Marriott Inner 328-1481, email: cdelance@nacintl. and Analysis, March 13-17, 2011, Harbor at Camden Yards, Baltimore, com. Wilmington, NC. Contact: Karen Maryland. Contact: Nuclear Energy 17. Emergency Preparedness Forum, June Ellison, GE Hitachi Nuclear, email: Institute, telephone: (202) 739-8000, 8-10, 2011, The Westin Savannah, [email protected], website: email: [email protected]. Savannah, Georgia. Contact: Nuclear psa2011.org. 11. Nuclear Energy Assembly, May Energy Institute, telephone: (202) 3. 2nd Annual Nuclear Decommission 9-11, 2011, Grand Hyatt Washington, 739-8000, email: conferences@nei. Conference, April 5-6, 2011, Man- Washington, D.C. Contact: Linda org. chester, United Kingdom. Contact: Wells, Nuclear Energy Institute, 18. American Nuclear Society 2011 Emma Banymandhub, Nuclear En- telephone: (202) 739-8039, email: Annual Meeting, June 26-30, 2011, ergy Insider, telephone: 44-207-375- [email protected]. The Westin Diplomat, Hollywood, 7565, fax: 44-207-375-7576, email: 12. 15th International Conference on Florida. Contact: telephone: (708) [email protected]. Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems 579-8237. 4. World Nuclear Fuel Cycle, April 5-8, (ICENES2011), May 15-19, 2011, 19. Nuclear Fuel Supply Forum, July 2011, Swissotel Chicago, Chicago, San Francisco, CA. Contact: Trina 12, 2011, W Washington D.C. Hotel, Illinois. Contact: Nuclear Energy Voelker, Lawrence Livermore Washington, D.C. Contact: Nuclear Institute, telephone: (202) 739-8000, National Laboratory, telephone: Energy Institute, telephone: (202) email: [email protected]. (925) 423-9492. 739-8000, email: conferences@nei. 5. 9th China International Exhibition 13. ENS Conference on Nuclear Education org. on Nuclear Power Industry, April and Training (NESTet), May 15- 20. 2011 Utility Working Conference. 6-8, 2011, Shenzhen, China. China 18, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic. August 14-17, 2011, Westin Diplomat, Nuclear Energy Association. Contact: Kirsten Epskampm, Hollywood, Florida. Contact: David Contact: Coastal International European Nuclear Society, Slaninka, American Nuclear Society, Exhibition Co Ltd., telephone: 852- telephone: 32-2-505-30-54, fax: 32- telephone: (708) 579-8255, email: 2827-6766, fax: 852-2827-6870, 2-505-39-02, email: nestet2011@ [email protected]. email: [email protected]. euronuclear.org. 21. Radiation Protection Forum, August 6. International High-Level Radioactive 14. 19th International Conference on 14-18, 2011, Seattle, Washington. Waste Management Conference, Nuclear Engineering (ICONE19), Contact: Nuclear Energy Institute, April 10-14, 2011, Albuquerque May 16-19, 2011, Makuhari, telephone: (202) 739-8000, email: Marriott, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Japan. Contact: Japan Society of [email protected]. Contact: American Nuclear Society, Mechanical Engineers, telephone: 22. International Symposium on Future telephone: (708) 579-8253, email: 81-3-5360-3505, fax: 81-03-5360- I&C for Nuclear Power Plants, [email protected]. 3507, email: [email protected]. Cognitive Systems Engineering in 7. China Nuclear Summit 2011, April 14- 15. Nuclear Maintenance and Plant Process Control, and International 15, 2011, Shanghai, China. Contact: Modernization Conference, May 25- Symposium on Symbiotic Nuclear Merisis Consulting, telephone: 86- 26, 2011, Brussels, Belgium. Contact: Power Systems, August 21-25, 2011, 21-62278358, email: marketing@ Dean Murphy, Nuclear Energy Daejeon Convention Center (DCC), merisis-asia.com. Insider, telephone: 44-207-375- Daejeon, Republic of Korea. Organized 8. Small Modular Reactor Conference, 7204, fax: 44-207-375-7576, email: by the Korea Nuclear Society. April 19-20, 2011, Marriott Hotel, [email protected]. Contact: website: www.ici2011.org. Columbia, South Carolina. Contact: Tommy Angell, Nuclear Energy Insider, telephone: 44-207-375- 7176, fax: 44-207-375-7576, email: [email protected].

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By Joseph Naser, Electric Power human-system interfaces and support Research Institute. systems. Before joining EPRI, Dr. Naser worked at Argonne National Laboratory 1. Does the nuclear power industry analyzing data from low energy physics look outside the box when it comes to the experiments and performing R&D in application of current technologies? fast breeder reactor physics and thermal With respect to automation, hydraulics. simulation, visualization, interactive interfaces, and cognitive system study Naser received a Bachelors Degree in results, none of what we’re talking about Science Engineering from Northwestern using in nuclear power plants can really University, Evanston, Illinois. He be termed leading-edge technologies. received a Masters and PhD degrees in These are technologies already being Nuclear Engineering from the University used in other industries. We are looking of California at Berkeley. He has a at the aerospace industry. We are looking Masters Degree in Computer Science at the military. We are looking at the from Stanford University. entertainment industry, video games in particular, and technologies being used in Joseph Naser He is a Fellow with the American movies such as Avatar. Joseph Naser is a Technical Executive Nuclear Society and affi liated with It turns out that this is probably one of at the Electric Power Research the Institute of Electrical Electronics the richest areas for technology transfer to Institute (EPRI). His research activities Engineers and the International Society nuclear and other industries because there focus on digital I&C and control of Automation. Naser is also the is a lot of money being invested by the room modernization of operating chairman of the International Atomic military and the entertainment industry. plants, on-line equipment condition Energy Agency Technical Working Group They are developing better and better tools assessment, information visualization on Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and interfaces that would have cross-over and management technology, and and Control. value in the nuclear power industry: for example, tools that can create a 3D model capabilities are out there. The problem is minutes, they had created a 3D virtual of a valve, link it to data, and manipulate that the nuclear power industry often isn’t model of the valve that could rotate the it for various types of applications such aware of these capabilities. valve, take it apart, and put it together as design, training and knowledge There is a conference each December again. The valve parts were linked to a capture. The military and entertainment in Orlando called I/ITSEC (Interservice/ parts list in the model. You could even industry are continually increasing these Industry Training, Simulation and look at valve under different lighting capabilities. This enables the nuclear and Education Conference), which is environments. The model development other industries to piggyback on these advertised as the largest modeling, tool used to do this cost in the range of technological advances and build them simulation and training conference $5,000 to $10,000. The tool to use the into industry-specifi c applications. For worldwide. It’s very much geared toward model was a free download. example, the petrochemical industry is the military, but other industries are One of the big transitions we’re using advanced capabilities for designing also addressed. It has a large exhibition seeing more recently is the growing use of chemical factories and oil platforms, hall where companies introduce and gaming theory. In the military’s case, you and the medical industry has adapted demonstrate their technologies. It’s been are going into an environment where you such advances into training and remote interesting that over the short period of don’t know how people will behave and surgery. time I’ve been involved, to see where the what the conditions will be. I think we One of the things that we are technologies are going. About six years can take real advantage of gaming theory interested in is how to do effective remote ago, I sent someone to I/ITSEC. He had based capabilities in the nuclear power monitoring of parameters and equipment the CAD model of a valve on a CD with industry for applications such as outage at nuclear power plants. We see people him. He walked up to one of the companies management and emergency drills. doing remote surgery now, so it’s clear the offering 3D simulation and asked what When I fi rst started talking to utilities they could do with it. This company used about simulation and 3D visualization An Interview by Newal Agnihotri, Editor, tools that came out of those developed about ten years ago, the initial reaction Nuclear Plant Journal at the American for the gaming industry. In less than fi ve was that I just wanted to play computer Nuclear Society Winter Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 9, 2010. (Continued on page 32)

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One of the things we found and things around the piping that almost industry interest, and a number of was the distance from the operator to the makes you think you are looking at a practical uses at some plants. screen was too long. The designer forgot photograph. that the keyboard pulled out and the EPRI has launched a new strategy 2. Has the nuclear power industry taken person had to move back from the screen group to look at these and other lessons from the educational and research when the keyboard was out. So you can technologies for plant and people institutions about the application of fi nd problems immediately before you productivity improvements. We had a current technologies? build anything, making it much easier two-day kickoff meeting for this group Almost six years ago, we hosted a in June 2010. During the brainstorming meeting at the University of Illinois with session, after seeing several presentations a small group of utilities and some folks and demonstrations, the group came up from Valparaiso University and the Halden with 31 plant problems and opportunities Reactor Project, which is a research that could benefi t from the use of these organization in Norway. Valparaiso had technologies. They also identifi ed 16 begun using virtual reality, simulation, business and fi nancial obstacles to and interactive interfaces to teach classes implementation, pointing to why it’s in various disciplines. I’m not talking hard to get these capabilities into the about classes on visualization and Testing control room design to see if it plant. The group then discussed some simulation, but classes in nursing, vector meets human factors requirements. of the technology and application gaps calculus, chemistry, electromagnetism that need to be addressed to facilitate and crystallography. I’m sure more are implementation. The technology is doing it now, but at that time they were and cheaper to correct. The plant people out there, but you still have to apply one of the pioneers. At the meeting, we were also happy because when they took it appropriately to the plans. In some demonstrated various virtual reality and the model back to the plant, others at the cases it’s easy. The tool that you need simulation tools on desktop computers, plant got a better understanding of how exactly for your application is there. In on an interactive wall, in a cave and in the modifi ed control room would look some other cases it’s challenging due a cube. We had one model where users and function. to technical, development, fi nancial or could “walk” around parts of the nuclear For another U.S. nuclear power regulatory issues. power plant. plant, we developed a control room 3D After seeing real applications using virtual model refl ecting their staged 4. How can visualization and simulation the technologies, we had a brainstorming upgrade project. They knew what the be combined with interactive features session with the meeting participants and modifi cations in the fi rst two stages were to develop more effective tools for the came up with several ideas for how they going to be, so we built them a model of plants? could use the technology at their utilities. what the control room looks like now and We already know the effectiveness This really demonstrated the premise that models of what they could expect it to of visualization and simulation for if people are aware of the capabilities, look like after the fi rst and second stages. training, so I wondered if we could use they will fi gure out ways in which to use This tool could then guide implementation these virtual models, along with other these capabilities to solve problems. of future stages, enabling the plant to see knowledge elicitation techniques, to the results of the design before building interact with experts to get more complete 3. Provide examples of the application anything. information. With this more complete of the described technology in nuclear Another example of the use of 3D captured knowledge, we can then use it power plants. models in nuclear power plants relates to better train other people. We went to Staff from one of the U.S. nuclear to trapped air in certain pipes that could yet another nuclear power plant to try this power plants who attended the Illinois lead to reductions in fl ow. This concern approach out on something real. They had meeting had recently received a CAD led the Nuclear Regulatory Commission an outage coming up with two activities model for modifi cations to their control to ask plants to measure the elevations planned for the pressurizer room, which room. They took out all the desks and along pipe runs to determine locations is a high radiation environment. First, put a new design in with digital display where air could be trapped. Some plants they had a major valve maintenance job capabilities. So they gave the CAD sent people out with steel tape measures model to us and we worked with the to do the measurements. This was time (Continued on page 34)

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By Clarence Hardy, Australian Nuclear He has published four books, over 200 Association Inc. technical papers and patents, and given 1. What is the current status of Australia over 100 lectures to a range of audiences in its uranium production in the world over the last 20 years. He has been according to the current data which was elected to the International Nuclear to be published in 2010? Energy Academy of 100 distinguished Australia has the largest known nuclear scientists and engineers, and resources of uranium totaling 1.673M te elected as Vice-President (2004-2006) and President (2006-2008) of the Pacifi c U3O8 and representing over 30% of the world’s known resources compared with Nuclear Council, the leading non- Kazakhstan with 651,000 te, Canada with government nuclear organisation in the 485,000 te, Russia with 480,000 te and Pacifi c Region. He has organized three South Africa with 295,000 te. international nuclear conferences and However, Australia has dropped to eight national nuclear conferences in third in world production in 2009 with Australia in 1995-2010 in his position of only 7,982 te U after Kazakhstan with Clarence Hardy Hon. Secretary of the Australian Nuclear 14,020 te U and Canada with10,173. Clarence Hardy worked for three Association. He is a Director of three The main reasons were that production government nuclear research centres Australian public companies. at the Ranger uranium mine was lower in Australia, the UK and the USA in than usual due to lower ore grades and the period 1955-1991. He then set up Hardy has a PhD in Chemistry and there was an accident at the Olympic a consulting business and a publishing DSc in Nuclear Science and Technology Dam mine which stopped production for business which he has operated from the University of Bristol, United several months. successfully from 1991 to the present. Kingdom.

2. Did Australia increase its uranium 3. What is the current spot price Australia has been the opposition of the resources production by additional of uranium? Has the new nuclear Australian Labor Party over many years, exploration and increasing production renaissance worldwide affected the spot which opposition was only removed in by opening new mines and by expanding price? 2007. A second consideration was the production at existing mines, including The spot price of uranium was relatively low price of uranium in the last Olympic Dam and other sites? If not, US$70.00 per lb U3O8 on 27 January decade which meant that only proposed please state the economic and political 2011 as reported by the Ux Consulting new mines with high grade ore or with challenges. Company. The spot price has increased low mining and processing costs could Only three uranium mines have been steadily throughout the last six months have come on line anyway. These factors operating in Australia for several years from a low of US$40.00 per lb U3O8 in led to Kazakhstan emerging as a large due to the Commonwealth Government’s July 2010. However, it should be noted new source of uranium for the expanding refusal to approve the opening of more that only a small proportion of sales are at world market due to its low production than three mines. This objection was this spot price compared with the price for costs from near-surface in-situ mines. removed in 2009 when the Commonwealth long term deliveries negotiated between Government agreed to allow new mines to major utilities and uranium producers. 5. What political considerations are be opened subject to strict environmental The new nuclear renaissance worldwide opposing the development of mines in controls and other marketing restrictions has put upward pressure on the spot Queensland, Victoria, and New South of a non-proliferation nature. However, price as well as the supply diffi culties Wales? not all of the Australian states agreed to experienced from existing producers in The main political consideration is the recommendations and, for example, Australia and Canada. the long-held view by the governments Queensland, New South Wales and in these states that there was no solution Victoria are still not willing to approve 4. What are the political and economical to the disposal of radioactive wastes the opening of new uranium mines. considerations taken into account in the from nuclear power stations and that the development of uranium deposits in nuclear industry contributed to the risk of Responses to the Q&A are a follow-up to Australia? proliferation of nuclear weapons. an in-person meeting of Newal Agnihotri The main problem experienced in with Clarence Hardy in Sydney, developing new uranium deposits in (Continued on page 34) Australia on January 4, 2011.

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A second consideration in these states planned, and second, they had a pipe took the insulation off the pipes, and we which produce large quantities of coal for weld overlay scheduled. modeled the welding machine in there. export and local use is that development The pipe weld overlay was on critical Then we worked with the expert and had of uranium mining would reduce the path during the outage. They already him tell us about the job. What do people exports of coal in the longer term as well had laser scans of the pressurizer room need to be aware of? Where do they need as reduce jobs in the coal industry. from another application, so we worked to go to both accomplish the job and to with them to take those laser scans and minimize their exposure to radiation? As 6. In your vision, what efforts are needed make 3D virtual models in which the it turns out, one of the not so best places to to have Australia become a pro nuclear be standing in the pressurizer room from energy nation? a dosage point of view was by the door. The paradox is that Australia is But what happens normally with people exporting uranium to a large number who are not familiar with the room and of overseas countries with expanding where they are going, is that they walk nuclear power programs, and now in the door, stand there and start looking accepts that new uranium mines can be around. constructed for export, but refuses to After the virtual model training with accept nuclear power for use in Australia. the expert knowledge embedded into it, The main reasons are that there has been you now had people who were familiar an abundance of low-cost cheap coal with where they were going so they for domestic use as well as natural gas, Pressurizer room virtual model with immediately went in and went to their job and successive governments have given temporary shielding (yellow), pipes or to the best place to stand to minimize subsidies to the developing solar and with insulation removed (red), and their dosage. That alone saved dosage wind power industries. The effort needed welding machine (green). received by the workers. One of the other now is to educate the politicians and the interesting things about this effort is that public that nuclear power is a safe and an work planners won’t have to go out and economical technology once all costs are viewer can virtually walk around the get any dosage when planning the work. accounted for including the environmental room and see everything in the room He will have a virtual model to guide costs of using coal and gas. from all perspectives. We wanted to planning. We did the same thing with the develop a complete model to help train valve. We created a 3D model of the valve Contact: Clarence Hardy, Australian people and to show the pressurizer and used it to elicit knowledge which was Nuclear Association Inc., P.O. Box room as it would look under different then incorporated into the model. 85, Peakhurst, NSW 2210, Australia; circumstances. We created a model of telephone: 61-2-9579-6193, email: what the pressurizer room looked like Contact: Joseph Naser, Electric [email protected]. initially, we superimposed on that model Power Research Institute, 3420 Hillview grossly defi ned radiation fi elds. We also Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304; telephone: had another model showing what it was (650) 855-2107, email: jnaser@epri. going to look like when the welding team com. goes into the room. We showed what the temporary shielding would look like, we

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 3434 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:00:322:00:32 PPMM A Reactor with Passive Shutdown System

By Ratan Kumar Sinha, Bhabha Atomic & Development Group and, Director Research Centre, India. Design, Manufacturing & Automation Group, BARC. Sinha has been guiding 1. What percentage of design of Bhabha the programmes for new advanced Atomic Research Centre’s AHWR is reactors under design and development complete? at BARC to utilise thorium. The design of all systems of Nuclear Island of the Advanced Heavy Water Sinha has represented India in several Reactor (AHWR) has been completed. important forums of the International Pre-licensing safety appraisal by the Atomic Energy Agency. These include Atomic Energy Regulatory Board the Steering Committee of the IAEA’s (AERB) has also been completed. International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles 2. During the design phase are you (INPRO), of which he was the chairman taking advantage of system simulation for four years. and other computational tools to analyze safety and licensing issues? Is this Sinha was conferred the honorary effort being undertaken in-house or it is Ratan Kumar Sinha Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) degree subcontracted to another organization? Ratan Kumar Sinha graduated in by the University of Mysore. He has AHWR is an innovative reactor Mechanical Engineering from Patna received several awards and honours. which has been partly built on the well University in 1972, standing fi rst in the These include the fi rst Homi Bhabha proven PHWR technology and at the University. After completing the one Science and Technology Award, VASVIK same time, many First of a Kind (FOAK) year Course of BARC Training School Award, Indian Nuclear Society Award design features like natural circulation he joined Reactor Engineering Division and the DAE Special Contributions core heat removal, passive containment of BARC in the year 1973. Before his Award. He was elected a Fellow of the isolation, passive containment cooling appointment as Director, BARC, he Indian National Academy of Engineering etc. have been incorporated. To address served as Director, Reactor Design in 1998. the design and safety issues, several in- house tools have been developed. The 4. Who is manufacturing the key compo- will be carried out indigenously. India design and safety analysis has been nents, such as reactor vessel, turbine, fab- has large fuel fabrication facilities which carried out using both in-house developed ricated modules, steam generator (if ap- meet our requirements for all the existing and commercially available tools. plicable), diesel generators, piping, large reactors as well. Another version of valves, and large motors for AHWR? AHWR, named AHWR-LEU, is based on 3. Provide a spotlight on the digital AHWR is a vertical pressure tube low enriched uranium (LEU) Ð Thorium instruments and controls of AHWR. Has type light water cooled and heavy water Mox fuel. The LEU for this version may Bhabha Atomic Research Centre chosen moderated boiling water reactor. Most be imported. a vendor to supply the digital controls of the major reactor components will be and instrumentation for AHWR? fabricated indigenously. Many competent 6. What thermal hydraulic testing and Instrumentation and control has vendors have been developed over the analysis has been done on AHWR to been designed in line with state of the art years to meet the specifi c manufacturing ensure reactor safety and effi ciency? technology. India has a large vendor base and fabrication requirements of the Several large test facilities like to meet our requirements for Pressurized reactor. Integral Test Loop for thermal hydraulics Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs). Our and safety studies and Critical Facility to instrumentation and control requirements 5. Who will be supplying the fuel for study physics aspects have been designed will be met by these suppliers. AHWR? Has Bhabha Atomic Research and commissioned to validate AHWR Centre, or one of its contractors done design. The data generated in these a fuel analysis to ensure the optimal experimental facilities have been used for effi ciency and optimum safety? the validation of in-house tools used in AHWR uses Th-U and Th-Pu Mox reactor design. Safety analysis has been Responses to questions by Newal fuel. The fuel will be obtained from carried out using both in-house developed Agnihotri, Editor of Nuclear Plant indigenous sources and fabrication work and commercially available tools. Journal. (Continued on page 36)

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7. Please summarize the results of A large R&D programme was carried code FEMFOL. Both the computer codes serious accident analysis, including loss out to evaluate the integrity of various are diffusion theory codes and they are of coolant accident (LOCA) and Non- components under simulated severe based on NODAL Expansion method. LOCA analysis that has been done on conditions. AHWR to ensure safety and reliability? 15. Who are current Bhabha Atomic The analysis confi rms that the safety 11. What are the design features which Research Centre’s global partners? criterion, as stipulated by the national makes AHWR a better reactor to withstand As far as R&D in the nuclear fi eld regulator, is satisfi ed. Just to give an terrorism attack? is concerned, a number of collaborative example, even in case of a postulated Besides several passive safety programmes are in progress with scenario with complete station black out features, AHWR incorporates a passive universities and institutes of foreign together with failure of both primary shutdown system to ensure safe shutdown countries. Besides these collaborations, (mechanical shut-off rods) and secondary of reactor in the event of failure of all collaborative research is being carried (liquid poison injection) shut down wired safety systems thus protecting the out under the aegis of IAEA. One of the systems, the peak clad temperature is reactor even against malevolent actions important IAEA projects in which we are limited to less than 600 K. The shut down and internal sabotage. participating is the International Project is affected in such a scenario by a Passive on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Shutdown System and the decay heat is 12. Why you believe your reactor may Cycles (INPRO). transferred to a large pool of water by be constructed on time and under budget, natural circulation. without any cost and time overruns? 17. Provide a brief description of AHWR Industrial infrastructure in India providing additional information which 8. What are the different applications such has advanced to world standards and the is not covered above. as desalination, hydrogen generation, construction of recent Indian PHWRs A detailed description of the and other industrial applications which has been completed in less than sixty reactor has been published in Nuclear may utilize AHWR? months. Engineering and Design, Vol. 236(2006), In AHWR, it is proposed to use low special issues 7-8 on “India’s Reactors: grade heat for desalination purpose. The 13. How will AHWR minimize its per Past, Present, Future”. Subsequent to the capacity of the desalination plant is 500 megawatt cost by making the thermal publication, the physics design and core m3/day. hydraulics and fuel more effi cient? structural confi guration of reactor were BARC is in the process of setting up further optimized to achieve negative 9. How will the sale of reactors in small a high power Integral Thermal-hydraulics void coeffi cient of reactivity without countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Test Facility to generate thermal margin incorporation of additional neutron Thailand, Angola, and others be data on simulated full scale fuel rod absorber in fuel. This led to increase supported fi nancially? clusters to optimize the thermal margin. in the core discharge burn up to 38000 The sale of reactors will be as per the The data generated will help in enhancing MWd/T and attainment of negative void policies of Government of India. the bundle power and in bringing down coeffi cient of reactivity for individual the cost. Work on development of annular fuel channels throughout the operative 10. How did you determine the material fuel is also in progress. range of burn ups. In addition, a passive suitability for the reactor vessel and shutdown device was added to take other components taking into account the 14. What computational tools have care of insider threat scenarios that may corrosion, cracking, and other material been used to optimize the usage of fuel disable wired shutdown systems. A full degradation issues which have occurred by providing assistance in design and in size thermal-hydraulics test facility, with in current light water reactors in the last operation? two channels and capable of operating up 30 years? The physics design of AHWR has to three times the rated channel power, is AHWR is a pressure tube type reactor. been carried out using in-house expertise in advanced stage of completion. India has vast operating experience of and in-house developed tools. For various pressure tube type reactors. We also have design calculations related to equilibrium Contact: Ratan Kumar Sinha, a strong group of experts working on core of AHWR, the computer code Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, BARC, materials in BARC. Besides, because of FEMTAVG has been used. The initial Mumbai, 400085, India; email: redam@ 100 year design life of AHWR, provision core loading and core follow up related barc.gov.in. has been made in design for easy studies including on-power refueling replacement of some of the components. have been carried out using computer

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 3636 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:00:352:00:35 PPMM Over 40 years of sustainable energy

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 3737 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:00:372:00:37 PPMM Eco-certifi ed Products

By Eric Loewen, GE Hitachi Nuclear of used nuclear fuel as an option for Energy. US President Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on the future on nuclear 1. How does GE Hitachi Nuclear (GEH) energy. train and maintain its skilled staff? One of the programs we have is The American Nuclear Society’s 2005 our Edison Program, where we bring in Congressional Fellow, Dr. Loewen young engineers that just graduated from worked in the offi ce of Senator Chuck college. We see them as very good young Hagel (R-NE) where he coordinated the talent. We put them in a two year program Senator’s inclusion of America’s fi rst and in that program they get four different legislation addressing global climate jobs. They have classes during those two change policy into the Energy Act of years to learn not only about nuclear 2005. Joining the Idaho National power but also to learn about the broader Laboratory in 1999, Loewen contributed energy business that we’re in with coal, to the development of a Generation wind, gas turbines, Jenbacher, and other IV lead-bismuth cooled reactor and product lines. Jenbacher is a gas engine proliferation-resistant thoria-urania fuel. that can use natural gas or a variety of Eric Loewen other gases, such as biogas, landfi ll gas, Eric P. Loewen, PhD, is Chief Loewen did his Master of Science, etc. to make electricity. Consulting Engineer, Advanced Nuclear Engineering and PhD, A group of Edisons took our Plants Technology of GE Hitachi Engineering Physics from the University Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) Nuclear Energy. He is currently of Wisconsin - Madison. He is currently through Ecomagination certifi cation, promoting the sodium cooled reactor Vice President/President-Elect of the which is a process that our GE chairman and electrometallurgical processing American Nuclear Society. started in 2005 when he gave his speech to the Brookings Institution about what We have another leadership program We see the future in four areas. The GE was going to do as far as climate in which we go to the military and get fi rst area is in services. We are going change and improve the environment. people that have served our country. We to continue to supply fi rst rate, top They started the Ecomagination process bring those people into GE knowing that notch service to our customers. We do in which different products have to make they already have the leadership skills. inspections, repairs, replacements, outage a case on why they think they are unique We put them in a different program so work, whatever our customers need. We and going to be better for this world in they get exposed to our technologies and are going to be there for our customers. the future. After internal screens, we processes. The second thing that we do really give it to an independent company called 2. What is your vision related to the well, and have done successfully for a GreenOrder to evaluate the technology. direction taken by GE Hitachi Nuclear long time, is make nuclear fuel. We make They review the products as a disinterested Energy? fuel at our Wilmington, N.C. facility. We party to see if this is truly an eco- certifi ed project. GEH Edison engineers Main Components of the ARC: PRISM and NFRC successfully got the ARC eco-certifi ed in six months. This project culminated in July 2010 when they stood with GE’s chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt at an event in San Francisco. This was one of eight technologies that GE corporate selected, recognizing GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s ARC technology as a way to address the future of recycling nuclear waste. An Interview by Newal Agnihotri, Editor, Nuclear Plant Journal at the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 7, 2010.

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 3838 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:00:382:00:38 PPMM are going to continue to have a presence in PRISM is a little bit different than what the opportunity to lead that distinguished making fuel for our boiling water reactors. the Japanese and French are proposing team and we would like to do the same Some don’t realize is that we also make and what the Indians are building. Our’s thing in the future with other US vendors 50% of the fuel for the CANDU reactors is fundamentally different and we think to bring this technology to the commercial at our GEH Canada facility. that the economics work better for the market. The third thing we are going to do is sodium cooled reactor due to the changes new plants. We have three exciting products that we have made. Those changes started 4. How does PRISM’s technology help that we’d be happy to sell everybody in 1981 when we looked at the other nuclear non-proliferation? in the world. We have our Advanced sodium cooled reactors and asked: what The MOU that we signed with Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR). Two of can we do to improve the economics? We Savannah River National Laboratory is to those are in construction in Taiwan and had a utility advisory board. We went and evaluate the building of PRISM reactor, two are in construction in Japan. We also got operators. From them, we learned that our sodium cooled fast reactor. We see have the Economic Simplifi ed Boiling we needed to make it small. We needed that as an opportunity to help Savannah Water Reactor (ESBWR). We expect metallic fuel. We learned how to make a River and the Department of Energy meet Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) steam generator better. So all those things their current goals and objectives. certifi cation of the ESBWR in September got incorporated. We had our chairman, Jack Fuller, 2011. I have attended some Gen IV present to the Blue Ribbon Commission We also offer the PRISM reactor, International Forums as an observer. in August 2010. He talked about the which is the only small modular reactor However, those Gen IV meetings are concept of recycling. What we mean by that’s been reviewed by the Nuclear government to government. We at GEH recycling, different than reprocessing, Regulatory Commission. We submitted do what our government asks of us. is that you have to use a fast spectrum PRISM to the NRC in 1987. They We would like to work closer with the reactor, you have to use all the reviewed that design and in 1994 they issued NUREG-1368 stating no safety impediments to licensing this reactor. When we submitted it in 1987, it was under 10 CFR part 50. Our fourth vision of the future is our laser enrichment technology, a technology purchased from Australia. All the resources and development will be done here in the United States. We’ll do that with the IAEA proliferation requirements and we are going to do it right by U.S. regulations and requirements as well.

3. Describe the PRISM reactor and Department of Energy (DOE) because transuranics, not just plutonium, and you provide its similarities with Gen IV they recently announced a Memorandum need to come up with a waste form that international reactor development of Understanding with Japan and France looks at the chemical properties. That’s program. regarding Gen IV sodium fast reactors. where we think recycling is different than Mod B of the PRISM is 300 MW We would like to be a part of that reprocessing. Reprocessing does recycle electric. Mod A is a modifi cation that discussion. The United States can have plutonium. But it doesn’t get us where we can be rail shippable with an electrical a fundamentally different approach. We need to go. output of 170 MW electric. We have would like to work closer with the DOE From a proliferation standpoint, both two different PRISM products for sale. to make sure the United States sodium meet the requirements of IAEA. When We can make either reactor vessel today cooled reactor is part of the discussion we look at separations, we’re doing it in the United States at a GEH facility in and we are not importing yet another fundamentally differently. Instead of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, because we technology. This is a real product and, yes using chemistry and nitric acid, we use have the N-Stamp and the facilities to it’s on paper, but every single reactor that a molten salt bath that has many more make this vessel. This would use stainless has ever been built has started on paper. complicated steps if pure plutonium is steel, about two inches thick. We at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy attempted to be extracted as compared to Gen IV has six reactor types. We are are very proud to represent the United PUREX. The salt separations results in a one of the six with PRISM. The six are States in a unique sodium cooled group separation of the transuranics. (1) sodium cooled, (2) lead cooled, (3) reactor technology called PRISM. molten salt cooled, (4) high temperature This technology was developed under Contact: Michael Tetuan, GE Hitachi gas, (5) fast gas and (6) super critical government funds from 1985-1995 and Nuclear Energy; telephone: (910) 819- water. When we look at the world market, it included nine other US industrial 7055, email: [email protected]. partners. GEH is very proud that we had

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 3939 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:00:532:00:53 PPMM Export Challenges for the Global Nuclear Power Market

By Ed Wolbert, Transco Products, Inc. and services. Ed has been with Transco for 26 years, and has been its president The worldwide renaissance of for the last 11 years. He has served as nuclear power is in high gear. China, vice-chairman on the U.S. Department Russia and India alone have more than of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade 105 commercial nuclear reactors planned Advisory Committee and is a member of or under construction. Many American the Department of Commerce's National companies believe that in order to Institute of Standards and Technology succeed in the global nuclear market, U.S. where is on the MEP National Advisory reactor suppliers must fi rst sell American Board. He is a frequent speaker on technology, paving the way for American the subject of nuclear exports and lower-tier suppliers. However, a number manufacturing. He is also a member of American companies, including small of the Board of Directors of the Illinois and medium enterprises, thrive in global Ed Wolbert Manufacturing Extension Center. nuclear markets, including markets Ed Wolbert is the President of Transco where fi rst-generation American reactor Products Inc., a mid-sized company Ed Wolbert has a Bachelors Degree from technology is not currently deployed. focused on global nuclear components LeTourneau University. Being successful in these markets requires signifi cant market research, frustrating, and at worst a substantial risk are also a wide variety of other codes robust strategic planning and a deep to successful completion of the project. and standards governing things such as understanding of the constraints and risks Nuclear liability limitations are radiological safety, workplace safety and associated with foreign markets. While another unique aspect of contracts for labor laws, to name a few. each of these elements can be market products and services in the nuclear or product specifi c, there are several power market. The U.S. was an early Currency common constraints and risks that need champion of the IAEA Convention One of the fi rst things that a company to be identifi ed and understood. These on Supplementary Compensation for will be faced with in the international six “C’s” of commercial nuclear export Nuclear Liability (CSC), but thus far marketplace is how to protect itself against are discussed below. the CSC has not been ratifi ed by enough currency fl uctuations, particularly with nations to put it into force, and therefore long-term contracts. Financing, payment Contracts the limitations on liability remain quite terms and collections are other areas that To the American way of thinking, varied in different countries. are much more challenging in international contracts are generally documents that markets, particularly when dealing with are negotiated between two parties which Codes & Standards government-controlled entities. While describe what each is expected to do, and U.S. technical and quality standards payment by wire transfer upon delivery of what will happen if either party breaches are applied in a number of countries around goods is the most simplistic arrangement, their obligation. In many foreign markets, the world. However, many countries have irrevocable letters of credit offer far more contracts are viewed as living, breathing their own technical and quality standards, protection, but are much more diffi cult to documents with much more emphasis or have adopted standards from third party negotiate with favorable conditions (and on the day-to-day relational aspects of nations. For example, the indigenous without hidden loopholes). Furthermore, the project, and more often than not, Chinese fl eet of nuclear plants is an collection on overdue receivables is a subject to reinterpretation (without outgrowth of technology transfers from signifi cant challenge for any company, amendment) at the will of one, or both of French companies. Therefore, many of but is compounded when the receivable the parties. Intellectual property rights, a the French codes and standards, such as is due from a foreign government. Many core principle in American business, may RCC-M are still applied at these plants. foreign contracts require much higher not have the same meaning in cultures While the end product manufactured to levels of payment security with longer where ideas are viewed as a shared public RCC-M may be quite similar, or in fact durations, such as standby letters of credit interest. Additionally, the application identical, to a product manufactured or performance bonds extending through of the rule of law may have entirely under an American set of codes such the end of the warranty period. different meaning in a foreign market. as ASME, the methods to achieve fi nal To an American company accustomed product conformity and quality can be Culture to uniform principles of contractual quite different. In addition to technical Aside from the cultural diversity interpretation, this can be at best and quality codes and standards, there that exists due to political, social

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 4040 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:00:542:00:54 PPMM and geographical reasons, there are to. An early understanding of the driving by the U.S. government and similar business culture issues that are perhaps forces behind price, product and policy in time delays may occur. An important less obvious. For example, American the local market is a key to success. component of the Part 810 regulations companies often utilize local sales agents. Perhaps one of the most important includes the concept of “deemed exports”; However, it is important to recognize that considerations to understand about the the disclosure of nuclear technology to while an American company employs global nuclear market is in the area of non-U.S. persons, even if those persons the sales agent for a fi xed duration, the export control. The vast majority of are employed within the United States. agent is usually a citizen of the country in exports from the U.S. are regulated by the While these regulations serve as an which he or she is working; and that agent U.S. Department of Commerce Export important barrier to nuclear proliferation, has much longer, and perhaps deeper, Administration Regulations (EAR), and many other countries do not have the relationships with the local customer the vast majority of U.S. exports require same level of export controls for identical in the home country that could become no license from the federal government. products and American companies unexpected tiebreakers during diffi cult However, nuclear power plants and often fi nd themselves at a competitive negotiations. the components and services that go disadvantage when faced with head-to- Workforce diversity is another into them, are tightly controlled by the cultural issue that must be considered. U.S. government for non-proliferation With nuclear power being a relatively reasons. Many components that go into new market in a number of countries, the commercial nuclear power plants are makeup of the workforce can be much considered dual-use; that is, they can be different than an American company used in a wide variety of applications would be used to in the domestic market. other than nuclear power. The export of Age, gender and experience levels can be most of these components is governed quite different, even for different countries by the U.S. Department of Commerce located in the same geographic region. EAR. However, the export of many of the key components that go into a Communication nuclear power plant is controlled by U.S. Emergency Core Cooling Strainer Nuclear power plants are Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) during factory pre-assembly, prior to complex machines and building these regulations, specifi cally under Title 10 of shipment and installation in a foreign complex machines requires constant the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 110 nuclear power plant. communication. Managing work on (10CFR110). Under Part 110, there are a the other side of the world means using number of components and countries that head competition against companies from different channels for communication and are covered by a general export license these countries. Therefore, understanding being aware of the time differences and which, while still having signifi cant the applicability and enforcement of delays that may exist. Travel becomes an reporting and monitoring requirements, U.S. export regulations is an important important issue, since getting in front of is a fairly straightforward process. Other element to participating in the global the customer may no longer be a matter components and countries require a nuclear market. of a couple of hours on a plane and a few specifi c export license. The securing As mentioned above, the vast hundred dollars. Of course, language is of these licenses can often be a lengthy majority of U.S. exports fall under perhaps the biggest barrier to effective process. Most specifi c export licenses the U.S. Department of Commerce communication. While English has require the U.S. government to secure EAR. Therefore, a good fi rst step to become a global language, establishing assurances from the foreign government understanding export control is gaining deep levels of communication can only in the end-use country to assure that the an understanding of the EAR. The be effectively done when working in the products will not be used for weapons Department of Commerce’s Bureau of native language of the customer. proliferation and will not be re-transferred Industry and Security conducts frequent to non-authorized entities. Some projects training sessions across the country Control involve the transfer of nuclear technology to familiarize U.S. companies and There are two areas of control that without the actual shipment of components individuals with the regulations. With a are key considerations in the international or product. This might include drawings, good understanding of the EAR, the next market. The fi rst concerns the level specifi cations, methods and other non- logical step is gaining an understanding of control that a new entrant to nuclear public information. These technology of the other export control regulations. exports can expect to have. The nuclear transfers are controlled by the U.S. Training is available for the NRC Part 110 power sector in many countries is a state- Department of Energy (DOE) under Title and DOE Part 810 regulations, generally controlled enterprise and the governments 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, through webinars and seminars conducted in these countries have a much tighter Part 810 (10CFR810). Similar to Part by industry groups and the private interface between their regulators, plant 110, Part 810 requires that U.S. companies sector. The Department of Commerce’s designers, plant operators and the private secure DOE authorization prior to the International Trade Administration’s sector, compared to what American transfer of technology. Similar foreign website www.trade.gov is another companies are traditionally accustomed government assurances must be secured (Continued on page 43)

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 4141 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:00:562:00:56 PPMM Recommendations to the Blue Ribbon Commission

By James H. Miller III, Southern for new nuclear development initiatives, Nuclear Operating Company. including the construction of Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 near Augusta, Ga. These new nuclear units (Vogtle Units He was elected President and CEO on 3 & 4) illustrate the achievements that are August 28, 2008 and Chairman on Oct. possible when industry and government 1, 2008. work together within the framework of coherent public policy. The creation and He serves on various industry and implementation by the NRC of a new professional boards, including the reactor licensing process, the enactment Board of Directors of the Nuclear of incentives for the construction of new Energy Institute (NEI), the Foundation plants in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, for Nuclear Studies, the University of the cooperative efforts of DOE and the Alabama Farrah Law School Foundation industry under Nuclear Power 2010 and The University of Alabama and the creation of a stable regulatory Culverhouse College of Commerce environment for the construction of new Board of Visitors. Miller most recently plants by the state [of] Georgia have all James H. Miller III served on the Board of Directors for the combined to bring the country to the point James H. Miller, III, is Chairman, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations where we are in position to realize the President and Chief Executive Offi cer of (INPO). He also has been involved in benefi ts of a new generation of nuclear Southern Nuclear Operating Company. many community activities, including power plants. In this role, he is responsible for all board memberships of the Lakeshore The same sort of coherent policy and operations of Southern Company’s six Foundation, the United Way and the cooperation between government and nuclear reactors. He is also responsible Farrah Law Society. industry is necessary to resolve the issues involving the management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear Waste Policy Act was signed into law. for not taking any potential solution to waste. Such a policy was created in the Unfortunately, they have seen little in the this issue off the table. Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, but way of return on their investment. To most Having visited Yucca Mountain and unfortunately, that policy has not been observers, it seems that the only constant having listened to the best engineers in the implemented successfully. Signifi cantly, in federal nuclear waste policy over the country debate the alternatives, I remain the failure to implement the nuclear waste last decade has been increasingly creative convinced that a geologic repository policy has been for political, not technical, defenses to breach -of -contract claims remains the best technical solution for the reasons. It is my sincere belief that if the and the continuing record of adverse legal long-term storage and disposal of nuclear implementation of the policy had been decisions. The wavering of the federal waste. I am also convinced that Yucca guided by science and not politics, the commitment to fulfi ll its statutory and Mountain is the best site in this country United States would be well on its way to contractual obligations with every shift of for such a repository. Accordingly, the developing a geologic repository at Yucca the political winds has created signifi cant Commission would do the country a Mountain, Nevada. doubt among the members of the public great service by recommending that The customers who are served by in the government’s legal judgment and the licensing and development of the Southern Company’s fl eet of nuclear its desire to spare taxpayers the cost of repository Yucca Mountain be continued. power plants have paid well in excess a poor litigation strategy and adverse In any event, the Commission should urge of $1 billion in nuclear waste fees to the judgments. While there is no doubt that that the technical knowledge developed federal government since the Nuclear spent nuclear fuel is being stored safely about Yucca Mountain and long-term at the nation’s nuclear power plants, storage and disposal of spent nuclear and can be for the foreseeable future, fuel refl ected in DOE’s application for a The provided excerpt has been taken these facilities were never intended to be repository construction authorization be from the statement of James H. Miller permanent storage facilities. preserved. III, Chairman, President and Chief The charter of this Commission This is not to say that the Nuclear Executive Offi ce of Southern Nuclear charges it with evaluating “all possible Waste Policy Act could not be improved. Operating Company, to the United States alternatives” for the storage, processing Subjecting the funding for the repository Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s and disposal of nuclear waste. The to the appropriations process has overly Nuclear Future delivered in Augustana, Commission is to be commended for the politicized the licensing and construction Georgia on January 7, 2011. breadth of its review of these issues and of the project, and made it diffi cult for

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 4242 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:01:132:01:13 PPMM those charged with developing the project, of study of the stored material and any and in turn the generators who depend on new technologies that might reduce its Export Challenges... the project, to plan effi ciently. Moreover, volume or radioactivity. Continued from page 41 the diversion of nuclear waste fees to other While I recognize that in the current purposes in years when receipts exceed political climate the development of appropriations threaten the viability of Yucca Mountain may appear unlikely, valuable resource to any exporter, and has the program. A coherent nuclear waste I urge the Commission to carefully several specifi c tools for exporters in the program must include safeguards that consider the progress that has been made commercial nuclear market. ensure that nuclear wastefee revenues there. At a minimum, the Commission While the issues described above are available for expenditure for the should recommend that the technical may sound daunting, the size of the global nuclear waste program. The fees must knowledge and experience gained at Yucca nuclear market is too big to ignore for a be exempted from the appropriation Mountain be preserved and that the site company serious about being a contender process. be maintained as an option in the event in the commercial nuclear marketplace. In conjunction with the reformation circumstances create the opportunity to All of the issues can be addressed through of the funding process, it is time to fi nish the work that has begun there. sound management built on a robust reevaluate the entity responsible for the I appreciate the opportunity to share strategic plan. The changing nature of the implementation of the federal nuclear these thoughts with the Commission global market may require more frequent waste policy. Unfortunately, the recent today. The United States’ leadership reviews of that plan and changes in effort to withdraw the application in the nuclear industry depends on focus or direction, but the reward can far demonstrates that DOE will forever the adoption and implementation of a outweigh the risks for the company that be subject to changes in executive and sound nuclear waste policy. I have great is well prepared, has innovative products congressional attitudes concerning the confi dence in this Commission to provide and is world-class in its execution. necessity of compliance with the Act. the needed guidance to the administration For that reason, the Commission should and Congress on this important issue Contact: Ed Wolbert, Transco consider and support legislation pending and would be delighted to answer any Products, Inc., 55 East Jackson Blvd, in Congress that would transfer the questions you may have. Suite 2100, Chicago, IL 60604; telephone: responsibility for repository development (312) 427-2818, fax: (312) 427-4975, to a public corporation. I must emphasize, email: EdWolbert@TranscoProducts. however, that without depoliticizing com. the funding process, simply shifting responsibility for implementing the Act will be ineffective. Finally, the Commission should consider long-term centralized storage of spent nuclear fuel, whether at Yucca Mountain or at another site. Licensing Yucca Mountain for long-term storage of one hundred years or more before commencing permanent disposal there would enable scientists to study the reaction of the spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste to placement SEALS, ACTUATORS, GRIPPERS in the repository and allow advancements & PNEUMATIC SPECIALTIES in spent fuel recycling, shielding, storage and disposal technologies to be FABRIC-REINFORCED implemented before the fi rst casks are FOR STRENGTH & made inaccessible. Advancements in STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY each of these technologies promise to increase the effi ciency of the radioactive “Technical expertise, enthusiasm, creative problem solving, unmatched experience and follow-through… waste program. that’s Seal Master for sure!” In this connection, the Commission should also consider a recommendation DESIGN ASSISTANCE OFFERED – WWW.SEALMASTER.COM to reform the repository licensing process to permit a storage-only license for the SEAL MASTER CORPORATION repository, with requirements suitable to 368 MARTINEL DRIVE, KENT, OH 44240-4368 USA limited, retrievable storage. Repository (800) 477-8436 / (330) 673-8410 • FAX (330) 673-8242 E-mail: [email protected] closure would then be subject to a license to close the facility after a suitable period Serving the nuclear industry since 1974. © 2009 Seal Master Corporation

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 4343 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:01:222:01:22 PPMM Removing Crud from CRD Guide Tubes

By Joe Tocco, Exelon Corporation. Crud in CRD guide tubes (primarily Joe Tocco Iron Oxide) has been shown to challenge Joe Tocco is the CRD System Manager Summary Reactivity Management by negatively at Dresden station. Joe has 13 years The purpose of the CRD Guide impacting the notching performance and of BWR and PWR design and systems Tube Flushing tool (Vortex tool) project overall reliability of CRDMs. Historical- engineering experience. He holds was to improve Reactivity Management ly, Dresden’s feedwater Iron concentra- a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear and nuclear safety by creating and tion has been excessively high. The Iron Engineering, an MBA, and a California implementing a tool that would tightly adheres to fuel during operation, PE license. Joe has been the System remove historical crud from Control and then becomes loose in the oxidiz- Manager for Control Rod Drives at Rod Drive (CRD) guide tubes when a ing environment experienced during re- Dresden for four years. CRD Mechanism (CRDM) is replaced. fueling outages. Some of the crud then Dresden collaborated with GE to develop sloughs off the fuel, ultimately settling at locations would impact outage critical and employ the tool. the bottom of CRD guide tubes, where it path by a day or more. is ingested into the (CRDM) during scram The Vortex tool is designed to Nuclear Energy Institute’s (NEI) Top operation. Once ingested, crud wedges in perform the same function of historical Industry Practice (TIP) Awards highlight the internal CRDM drive and collect pis- crud removal, but it is used from the nuclear industry’s most innovative ton seals, causing unreliable speed con- undervessel, and can be used with fuel techniques and ideas. They promote trol and notching performance. Dresden and a control blade installed. The Vortex the sharing of innovation and the best has installed 100% condensate prefi lters tool is installed undervessel using the practices, and consequently improve the which have signifi cantly reduced feedwa- upender after the old CRDM is removed. commercial prospects and competitive ter Iron concentration, but the prefi lters The effl uent is routed to the plant’s position of the industry as a whole. do not address historical crud. normal rad waste stream (such as the Traditional in-vessel guide tube drywell equipment sump). Once the tool This TIP Award Entry is a 2010 NSSS vacuuming is performed from the refuel is installed, a remote operator performs a Vendor Award Winner. bridge using a submersible pump and visual sweep for foreign material using fi lter (tri-nuc). Historically, Dresden has the integral camera. After the Foreign Nuclear Plant Maintenace & Plant Plant Life Extension performed in-vessel vacuuming only Material Exclusion (FME) inspection, a Journal Issue An International Publication on locations where a control blade was valve on the effl uent tube is opened and Published in the United States being replaced (blade swap locations). the head of water above the guide tube March-April 2011 This has provided limited benefi t to provides the motive force to fl ush the The Plant Reactivity Management and CRD guide tube of historical crud. The tool Maintenance & system performance, because blade swap sweeps around the guide tube twice, and Plant Life Extension locations only rarely coincided with in about 2 minutes the fl ush is complete. issue will have CRDM replacement locations. Shortterm There are several advantages to using bonus circulation and long-term trending indicated that the Vortex tool: at the Nuclear Energy Institute's those few locations where the CRDM 1) All CRDM replacement locations can Annual Assembly in was replaced and the guide tube was be fl ushed of historical crud without Washington, D.C. vacuumed in the same outage started impacting outage critical path. This and at the Utilities Service Alliance with better performance than those that promotes Reactivity Management by Executive Summit in Grapevine, Texas. were not vacuumed, and that advantage providing a clean environment for persisted for at least 6 years. Most new new mechanisms. Deadlines: CRDMs were being installed in locations 2) Using the integral camera, real-time Commitment- March 4, 2011 with guide tubes laden with historical information can be used to gauge the Material- March 11, 2011 crud, which entered the mechanism when effectiveness of the fl ush. scram timing was performed at the end of 3) The very radioactive historical crud the refueling outage during which it was is processed by the plant’s normal Nuclear Plant Journal installed. In-vessel guide tube vacuuming rad waste stream, instead of using Phone: (630) 858-6161, ext. 103 is very time consuming, because the cell expensive and diffi cult to dispose of Fax: (630) 852-8787 must be emptied of the control blade and tri-nuc fi lters. http://www.NuclearPlantJournal.com. all fuel. During a typical refueling outage, E-mail: [email protected] vacuuming all CRDM replacement

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 4444 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:01:222:01:22 PPMM Implementation disengaged. This is good evidence that fl ushed moved reliably during startup The Vortex tool was used for the fi rst the tool was effective in removing nearly from the outage, and none were observed time in the industry during Dresden Unit all loose crud that could be ingested into to double notch. Initial stall fl ow data 2’s 21st refueling outage (D2R21), in a CRD mechanism during scram. (a measure of the CRDM seal health) November 2009. The tool was successfully An estimated 1.5 curies of activity shows that overall, the fl ushed CRDMs used on 26 CRDM replacement locations, were removed per fl ushed location, and are healthier than new CRDMs from

and the initial results have exceeded surveys indicated a lower undervessel previous outages that were not fl ushed or the plant’s expectations. Visually, the dose rate at head level than before vacuumed. amount of crud removed was staggering. fl ushing. It is anticipated that with the 100% The effl uent started black and cleared Of course, the main purpose of the condensate prefi lter in place, new up during the fl ush, eventually returning tool is CRD reliability and reactivity CRDMs whose guide tubes are fl ushed to clear water before the tool was management. The locations that were (Continued on page 46)

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 4545 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:01:342:01:34 PPMM Tool and Scaffold Removing Crud... Decontamination Continued from page 45

UniTech’s 50 years of radiological expertise includes: will provide reliable operation for the Curie removed by about an order of remainder of plant life. magnitude. y Tool/Scaffold Decontamination y Scaffold and Equipment Storage Safety Innovation y Transportation Services Across the industry, excessive The Vortex tool is innovative because CRDM crud ingestion has resulted in it takes a whole new approach to historical High-pressure scaffold several nuclear safety issues, such as guide tube crud removal. Instead of a decontamination stuck CRDs, uncontrolled rod drifts, time-consuming process of emptying a and unlatching of the CRDM from the fuel cell and trying to accurately guide a control blade. The Vortex tool addresses hose into a cylinder 40 feet below, a small these safety concerns by removing the nozzle is deployed precisely where the crud from the guide tubes before it can be troublesome crud resides. ingested into the CRDM. The tool is also elegant in its Although the purpose of the Vortex simplicity. The head of water above the tool project was to promote Reactivity guide tube is used as the motive force, Management and nuclear safety, some with no vacuum assist needed. benefi ts of radiation protection were also realized. Any quantitative dose savings Productivity/Effi ciency estimates would be speculative at this The main productivity benefi t of the Precise, point, but after fl ushing in D2R21, surveys Vortex tool will be increased reliability of automated indicated a lower undervessel dose rate at CRD movement. Reliable CRD notching monitoring head level than before fl ushing. Due the performance is a long-standing challenge for tube, planks, and removal of the source term, dose savings at Dresden, and this tool is an important clamps will be realized during all subsequent part of Dresden’s aggressive approach to refueling outages. Additional fl ushing in CRD equipment reliability improvement. Tool/equipment future outages will magnify this positive decontamination impact. Transferability Also, by using the plant’s normal rad The Vortex tool can be used at any waste processing instead of tri-nucs, the BWR, although some modifi cations may radiation protection diffi culties of tri-nuc be required for plants with different un- Survey, storage, fi lter disposal are avoided. dervessel confi gurations. The plants that and would see the most benefi t are those with inventory Cost Savings high historical feedwater Iron and resul- Traditional in-vessel guide tube vac- tant crud accumulation. Not coincidental- y NRC-licensed for radioactive uuming at Dresden takes 75-90 minutes ly, the plants with high historical feedwa- material decontamination at 11 facilities nationwide. of outage critical path per location. In ter Iron tend to be the same as the plants D2R21, 26 locations were fl ushed using with the worst CRD equipment reliabil- y Process to free release motors, the Vortex tool. Vacuuming the 26 loca- ity. Several plants have already expressed water tanks, drums, HVAC, tions from above would have taken 32-40 interest in using the tool for future refuel- tools, scrap metal, and lead. hours of critical path. The incremental ing outages. y Rad-controlled scaffold, tool, cost to use the tool each outage is dwarfed and equipment storage. by the savings (at least $1 Million based Contact: Joe Tocco, Dresden Station, on the critical path savings). Similar sav- 6500 North Dresden Road, Morris, y Nationwide truck fleet. ings would be expected in many future IL 60450; telephone: (815) 416-3898, outages. fax: (815) 416-4906, email: joe.tocco@ ISO 9001 ISO 14001 There are also cost savings when exeloncorp.com. viewed from a source term removal perspective. Chemical cleaning is more expensive than guide tube fl ushing per

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 4646 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:01:352:01:35 PPMM Atoms for Green Power Production

By K.K. Bajaj, Kaiga Atomic Power Station. K.K. Bajaj Mr. K.K. Bajaj, a graduate in Electrical Engineering, joined NPCIL in 1985. Kaiga, one of the Nuclear Power He mainly worked in Operation of Corporation of India Limited's (NPCIL) PHWR. He held the positions of Control Power Plant Sites, in Karnataka state Engineer, Shift Charge Engineer and of India, has four units of 220 MWe, Senior Operation Engineer in Narora Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors Atomic Power Station. Presently, he is (PHWR). Three units are in operation heading the Operations Department of and one at an advanced stage of KGS-3&4, since 2005, as Operation commissioning. Superintendent. Kaiga PHWRs Kaiga is located about 56 kilometres Each reactor is housed in its Kaiga Generating Station is ISO- away from Karwar, the coastal town of Primary Containment, and a Secondary 14001 and ISO-18001 certifi ed. Kaiga Karnataka. This area is naturally beautiful Containment envelopes the Primary Stations have been peer reviewed twice by with hills and forest around, inhabiting containment. The annular space between World Association of Nuclear Operators variety of plant and animal species. It’s the two containments is kept at negative (WANO) in the Year 2000 and 2010. a picturesque location in Sahayadri Hills pressure to have zero ground release Kaiga Unit-4 too has also undergone pre- in India’s Western Ghats. The Site is in case of an accident. The radiological start-up WANO Peer Review. Unit-3&4 surrounded by hills all around, making it safety is enhanced by adopting the Zero have planned for a WANO Peer Review a sort of bowl, and river Kali is fl owing in Discharge concept. The heat removal from in the year 2012. the midst of the bowl. Moderator & Reactor Auxiliary Systems There is a rigorous training program The fi rst unit of Kaiga began its is done by an independent Closed-Loop in place, before an operator starts commercial operation in March 2000 Cooling System, which, in turn is cooled working on Plant Systems. The training followed by a second unit in November by a tertiary Closed-Loop Cooling system, on reference plant Full Scale Simulator 2000. The construction of a third unit employing Induced Draft Cooling Towers indeed has been an important element of began in the year 2002, with the fi rst pour for dissipating heat to environment. All the training program in development of of concrete of Unit-3 in March 2002. The the radioactive cooling systems have two skills and providing hands on experience third unit achieved its fi rst criticality in a barriers, and thus, radioactivity leak can to operators. This training indeed has record time of less than 5 years, in Feb occur only after simultaneous failure improved operator’s behavior and response 2007, and began its commercial operation of both the barriers. The leak detection to the transients. A three tier assessment in May 2007. The fourth unit is under systems can detect the leak on failure of of a trainee is also done followed by an advanced stage of commissioning. fi rst barrier itself, thus, zero discharge assessment by a Committee of experts & Kaiga reactors are indigenously concept is met. regulators. Only licensed and qualifi ed designed PHWRs which use Natural Each Unit has four Steam Generators, persons are allowed to operate the Uranium Oxide Fuel and Heavy Water feeding steam to Saturated Steam reactors. The operators are provided as the moderator and the primary Turbines for generation of Electricity. periodic refresher training courses and coolant. The plant design employs the The steam is condensed after driving the are re-assessed, for continuance of their philosophy of Redundancy in Safety turbine and the condensate is pumped license, every three years. Trainings on Equipment, Defense in Depth Principle, back to Steam Generators through a train Radiological Safety, Electrical Safety and Diversity in Detection & Control, and, of feed water heaters, as being done in Industrial & Fire safety are mandatory for Fail-Safe Philosophy for the safety any other conventional power plant, using all the regular NPCIL employees and the related equipments. Each unit has two steam. All the operating units have been contract employees. independent and diverse Shutdown performing safety and reliably. The units systems and has a poison addition system, have bagged a number of distinctions Employees Welfare for long term sub-criticality. The reactor and awards for achieving excellence in NPCIL is sensitive to the welfare is controlled by the control rods located Operations, Industrial & Fire Safety and of its employees and their families and at the top of the vessel. These rods are Environmental Safety. Kaiga Unit-1 and thus provides all basic infrastructure operated through the Computerized 2 have recorded a continuous operation facilities to them. All the employees Reactor Control System, which is entirely for 487 days and 529 days in Jan 2009 (Continued on page 48) independent of the Shut down System. and Jan 2008 respectively.

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JJF11.inddF11.indd 4747 22/14/2011/14/2011 2:01:372:01:37 PPMM of education health care aspects and Atoms for Green... providing infrastructural facilities in the V V Sanath Kumar Continued from page 47 surrounding area, thus improving the Mr. V V Sanath Kumar, joined the living standards of people in and around Department of Atomic Energy in 1973 the plants. and worked in various NPCIL Stations, Kaiga has constructed school and, has a rich experience of 37 years in live in the company township located buildings in the neighboring villages and the fi eld of Commissioning, Operation, about 18 Kilometers from the Kaiga provides education kits to the children Engineering, Training and Management Plant Site, owned & managed by NPCIL. in near-by schools; such as school bags, of Nuclear Power Plants. He held The township includes a hospital fully uniforms and books etc. Meritorious various positions and headed KGS-1&2, equipped with a team of doctors and and poor children are adopted every as Station Director in 2006. Presently, medical staff, schools, a recreation centre, year and their education is fully he is the overall in-charge of the whole a shopping complex, swimming pool, sponsored by Kaiga/ NPCIL in addition Kaiga Site as the Site Director. parks and playgrounds. The township has to the scholarships to the selected its own security and has controlled entry. meritorious students. The station has in the vacant area of its exclusion zone The company has its own fl eet of vehicles constructed several community centers of 1.6 Kms (.99 miles). An arboretum for commuting the employees from in its neighbourhood for societal welfare. was developed in vacant area for the township to plant site and back, and, also Centers for providing self employment to endangered species identifi ed in Western runs buses to near-by cities for the benefi t the women have been constructed. Kaiga Ghats and medicinal plants. Any person of the employees and their dependants. also provides high yielding seeds for the coming to Kaiga is fascinated with the crops to the farmers of near-by areas. scenic view of gigantic trees, thick forest, Community steep valleys and hills. The journey by Development The Environmental train in Konkan Rail is a known pleasure NPCIL/Kaiga believes in inclusive Aspects to all. The area is in the neighborhood growth and is committed for the Social Since Kaiga is located in lush green of the well known Anshi National Park, Welfare in its vicinity. The setting up thick forest area, all care had been taken which has a rich forest with wild life of Kaiga plants has provided number of during construction and operation of the population. business and employment opportunities plant to make sure that the fl ora and fauna Having such a rich forestation, it is to the local population. remains undisturbed. The plants were but natural to have a number of animals The human face of NPCIL helps it therefore constructed with minimum and birds living in the area. Kaiga to gain acceptance amongst the local cutting of trees. In addition, Kaiga also residents saw this as a challenge and had people, wherever it sets up its facilities. carried out forestation of 732 hectares formed a Nature Club, with an objective The company’s community welfare of land in adjoining districts. Kaiga to keep the area clean, bring awareness in schemes lay much emphasis on promotion has planted & nurtured 195,000 trees the villagers to stop hunting, and, arrange (Continued on page 50)

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