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Canada Bruce Power contracts for MCR Canada’s Bruce Power has awarded a CAD1.3bn ($1bn) contract to Shoreline Power Group for Fuel Channel and Feeder Replacement (FCFR) for its remaining Major Component Replacement (MCR) projects. These will involve Bruce Power NPP units 4, 5, 7 & 8. Bruce Power recently completed the
construction phase of the MCR portion of refurbishment of unit 6 and refuelling of the unit is now underway in preparation for its restart. The MCR project began in January 2020. The eight pressurised heavy-water Candu reactor units at the Bruce site in Ontario (Bruce A - units 1-4, and Bruce B - units 4-8) began commercial operation between 1977 and 1987. Bruce Power’s CAD13bn ($10bn) Life Extension Programme, which includes Asset Management and MCR, began in 2016. MCR, which began with unit 6 and also includes units 3-8, will extend the life of the site until 2064. Units 1&2 have already been refurbished and were returned to service in 2012. Work began on unit 3 in March. Shoreline Power Group, a joint venture between Aecon, SNC-Lavalin and United Engineers & Constructors, completed the FCFR for unit 6 and had previously been awarded the unit 3 MCR project. Under the new contract, Shoreline will execute FCFR work on all six of Bruce Power’s MCR project (units 3-8). Planning FCFR work for at the last four units is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2023, with construction expected to begin in the first quarter of 2025 for completion in 2032. Bruce Power President & CEO Mike Rencheck
said part of Shoreline’s commitment is to deliver the next two MCRs “more efficiently and cost-effectively than the previous one leveraging our lessons learned and best practices”. Jean-Louis Servranckx, President & CEO of the Aecon Group on behalf of Shoreline Power Group noted: “The success of the unit 6 refurbishment is a testament to the incredible work of our dedicated teams and trades. We look forward to working with our partners to
execute the remainder of this critical project with an unwavering commitment to safety, quality, schedule and cost performance.” Aecon said its share of the contract is worth
CAD1bn. SNC-Lavalin’s share is worth some CAD173m, and covers project management services associated with the reactor refurbishment. United Engineers & Constructors, with Aecon and Framatome is the Steam Generator Replacement Team (SGRT) joint venture contracted to replace steam generators at units 3, 4 & 6.
Belarus Grid connection for Belarus 2 Unit 2 of the Belarus NPP has been connected to the grid, the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Belarus reported in its Telegram channel. “As part of the staged programme for start-up, the fi rst connection to the network of the second power unit of the Belarus NPP has taken place,” the message said. The Ministry noted that the synchronisation of the turbogenerator and the power system was preceded by the reactor reaching a minimum controllable power level of 40%, which will gradually be increased further to 100%. Pilot operation will follow “which provides for testing equipment and technological systems in various operating modes, including when the unit is disconnected from the network. Commercial operation of the unit is scheduled for later in 2023. Minister of Energy Viktor Karankevich said
earlier that unit 2 would be put into commercial operation in October 2023. Commercial operation of unit 2 has been delayed by several months. It was originally planned for early 2023. However, officials said this was to ensure all safety requirements were met. The Belarus NPP comprises two VVER-1200 power units. The plant was issued a permit for pilot industrial operation of unit 1 in December 2020 and was connected to the grid in March 2021 and began commercial operation in June. It was the first VVER-1200 unit to begin operation outside of Russia. Fuel loading was completed at unit 2 in December 2021.
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SMRs
ROMANIAN NUCLEAR UTILITY SN Nuclearelectrica and the Polytechnic University of Bucharest have launched a NuScale Power Energy Exploration Centre at the University’s Faculty of Energy Engineering. It includes a control room simulator for NuScale’s VOYGR SMR. It is the first E2 Centre to be established outside the USA.
A REPURPOSED PARKING lot at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s (AECL’s) Chalk River campus has been selected as the site for construction of a demonstration Micro- Modular Reactor, according to a joint statement by AECL, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and Global First Power .
SWEDISH COMPANY LEADCOLD has signed a Letter of Intent with the Ukrainian energy group NGSI (Neftegazstroyizolyatsiya) to investigate the conditions for delivering SMRs to Ukraine after the end of the war. The aim is to establish a strategic and operational partnership, which will investigate building and operating small NPPs.
CWMNI EGINO, THE company proposing to develop the former nuclear power station in Trawsfynydd in Wales, says it has completed its first phase of development work, confirming the viability of deploying SMRs at the site. It said the site, owned by the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), could have the potential to generate up to 1 GWe.
US-BASED PARAGON Energy Solutions has entered into a preferred supplier agreement with X-energy Reactor Company to provide instrumentation & control systems for the Xe-100 SMR. These include the Reactor Protection System, the Post-Event Monitoring System, and the Neutron Instrumentation System.
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