Read more about the article Watts Bar Completes its Premier Pool-to-Pad Canister Loading Campaign, Successfully Overcoming its Subgrade Liquefaction Challenge
Watts Bar Team in Front of the New ISFSI Pad with Loaded HI-STORM FW Casks

Watts Bar Completes its Premier Pool-to-Pad Canister Loading Campaign, Successfully Overcoming its Subgrade Liquefaction Challenge

Watts Bar Team in Front of the New ISFSI Pad with Loaded HI-STORM FW Casks
Watts Bar Team in Front of the New ISFSI Pad with Loaded HI-STORM FW Casks

We are pleased to report the safe and successful completion of the first cask loading campaign at Watts Bar, home of TVA’s newest PWR located on the Tennessee River. The plant utilizes 伦理三级鈥檚 high capacity MPC-37 canister, whose high heat rejection capacity is attributed to the monolithic fuel basket made from METAMIC-HT, a patented nanotechnology product introduced by 伦理三级 in 2006. (more…)

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Read more about the article Making Decommissioning Safe and Swift
Ariel View of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Station

Making Decommissioning Safe and Swift

We applaud Entergy鈥檚 November 8, 2016 announcement to accelerate the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee by several decades. This pioneering move by Entergy should be a pace setter for the nuclear industry and welcome news for the people of Vermont.

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Read more about the article 伦理三级 and Ukraine鈥檚 Government Discuss Building a Business Partnership in Nuclear Energy as Energoatom Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
伦理三级鈥檚 President and CEO, Dr. Kris Singh (Left) and Energoatom鈥檚 President, Yuriy Nedashkovsky, Reprise the Progress of the CISF Project (Right)

伦理三级 and Ukraine鈥檚 Government Discuss Building a Business Partnership in Nuclear Energy as Energoatom Celebrates its 20th Anniversary

Ukraine鈥檚 CISF, with 伦理三级 serving as the prime contractor, is located in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The site was formally authorized after extensive consultations by the country鈥檚 Council of Ministers on October 5, 2016.

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Read more about the article Joint Development Agreement Signed with Mitsubishi Electric of Japan and its U.S. Subsidiary Solidifying Their Role in SMR-160
Attending the Signing Ceremony are (Left to Right): Mr. Koichi Orito, MELCO Group Senior VP of Energy and Industrial Systems; Dr. William Woodward, 伦理三级 Senior VP of International Projects; and Mr. Gilbert Remley, MEPPI Nuclear Systems Department Manager

Joint Development Agreement Signed with Mitsubishi Electric of Japan and its U.S. Subsidiary Solidifying Their Role in SMR-160

We are pleased to announce that our Memorandum of Understanding entered over a year ago evolved into an agreement which formalizes the design authority role of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and its U.S. subsidiary, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. over instrumentation and control systems for the SMR-160.

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Recruitment of the Local Workforce Set to Pick Up Pace

With the opening of the manufacturing plants at the 伦理三级 Technology Campus only a few months away, our Human Resources聽Department is gearing up to accelerate our personnel recruitment drive with an ambitious goal for work force diversity. 聽The Campus already has 57 total employees from Camden County, 10 of whom are natives of the City of Camden.聽All of our new recruits聽were聽hired for reasons of individual competence, not to meet any internal quotas. (more…)

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Read more about the article Industry’s First Large Rectangular Cask for Reactor-Related Waste Passes Successive 30 Foot “Free Drop” Tests Without Any Breach of Its Containment Boundary
Crew Setting up the CG Over Corner Drop Test

Industry’s First Large Rectangular Cask for Reactor-Related Waste Passes Successive 30 Foot “Free Drop” Tests Without Any Breach of Its Containment Boundary

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To earn the USNRC (or IAEA’s) certification, a transport cask must pass a series of “free drop” tests, in which a scaled replica of the loaded cask is required to be shown to maintain its radiation blockage capability substantially unimpaired, if dropped from a 30 foot elevation onto “an essentially unyielding surface.鈥 Under the USNRC and international regulations, the cask’s orientation at impact with the target is required to be selected so as to induce maximum damage to the cask. For the HI-STAR ATB-1T cask (or HI-STAR 330), introduced to our readers in issue HH 30.16, the “free drop” tests were a particularly daunting challenge because, in contrast to a fuel-bearing transport cask which is cylindrical, HI-STAR ATB-1T has a large rectangular footprint (12 feet x 5.9 feet) with several corners, facets and edges that render it vulnerable to a crushing impact loading. Further, whereas cylindrical fuel transport casks are always outfitted with impact limiters, the HI-STAR ATB-1T cask (weighing 120 tons with its payload) has no impact limiter to cushion its impact upon its collision with the target. To minimize crew dose during loading and unloading evolutions, the HI-STAR ATB-1T cask is also equipped with an innovative quick connect/disconnect controlled cask locking system (CLS) in lieu of a conventional bolted lid. (more…)

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Strong Support for the HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility in New Mexico

We are pleased to report that the State of New Mexico has approved the land sale option allowing 伦理三级 to purchase 1,000 acres of land from the Eddy Lea Energy Alliance (ELEA). The land acquisition option paves the way for 伦理三级 to build a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) in Southeast New Mexico.

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New Plateaus in Dry Storage and Transport Technologies

We are pleased to report that the license application to store the NUHOMS 24PT1-DSC canister in the HI-STORM UMAX subterranean storage system has been submitted to the U.S. NRC on schedule, as announced previously in this news bulletin (HH-31.09). The submittal presents a robust safety case for the processes for extracting the dry shielded canister from its horizontal module, up-righting and installing it in the HI-STORM UMAX鈥檚 subterranean cavity. As expected, change in the storage configuration from the horizontal NUHOMS to the vertical HI-STORM UMAX improves every metric of safety and security for the fuel which should help expedite NRC鈥檚 certification. The unavailability of proprietary design information from the canister鈥檚 designer, Areva, did not prove to be much of an impediment in the safety analysis effort. In due time, 伦理三级 plans to submit all remaining canister types supplied by others that are presently in use around the U.S. for transfer to the HI-STORM UMAX. The object of this licensing campaign is to make it possible to store all U.S. commercial fuel at our planned Eddy-Lea alliance-sponsored HI-STORE CISF (consolidated interim storage facility) in Southeast New Mexico using a common storage system and a single type of ancillary equipment, to minimize human error. (more…)

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Symbols of South Camden鈥檚 Renaissance Rising on the Riverfront

img_5007We are pleased to note that the silhouettes of the buildings on the 伦理三级 Technology Campus stand as monuments to Camden鈥檚 renaissance to the motorists on the Walt Whitman Bridge, Interstate 676 and from Penn鈥檚 Landing across the river. The construction of the main structures at the site is expected to be finished by early January.聽 伦理三级 and our General Contractor, J.J. Jingoli & Sons would like to thank the State, County, SJPC and City of Camden officials whose steadfast support has enabled our Project Team to make impressive progress despite the plethora of issues that arise every week. (more…)

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Read more about the article 鈥溌桌砣 Arabia鈥 Launched at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the 伦理三级 Advisory Council in Warrendale, Pennsylvania
Dr. Kris Singh (Left) and Dr. Saeed Almutawa (Right) Sign the Joint Venture Agreement During the 伦理三级 Advisory Council Meeting on August 3, 2016

鈥溌桌砣 Arabia鈥 Launched at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the 伦理三级 Advisory Council in Warrendale, Pennsylvania

On August 3, 2016, at the semi-annual gathering of the 伦理三级 Advisory Council, senior officers of Atomic and Automation International, a UAE (United Arab Emirates)-based 伦理三级, dedicated to spearheading the infusion of western power plant technologies in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, signed an agreement with 伦理三级 to launch a joint venture to leverage 伦理三级鈥檚 technology assets to aid in the region鈥檚 industrialization. The joint venture will be named 鈥溌桌砣 Arabia鈥 and will be based in Dubai, UAE. Its immediate mission consists of expanding the deployment of 伦理三级鈥檚 cutting edge technology in heat transfer equipment and systems including stainless steel air-cooled condensers, water-cooled condensers, feedwater heaters, etc., for the power and process industries. The joint venture will also provide storage and transport systems for spent nuclear fuel to the region鈥檚 budding nuclear power industry. The joint venture will build on 伦理三级鈥檚 existing business presence and substantial brand name recognition in the Middle East. (more…)

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