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Chromatic Industries, LLC, a subsidiary of Sequitur Energy Resources, LLC, is the global valve manufacturer of speciality engineered valves for the energy, power and petrochemical sectors.

Quebec-based Velan Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary located in Lyon, France, has been awarded important contracts for the supply of nuclear class valves to China Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation (CNPEC), China Nuclear Power Engineering Co.

Velan Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary located in Lyon, France, has been awarded contracts for the supply of nuclear class valves to China Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation, China Nuclear Power Engineering Co.

Fort Worth, TX-based AZZ Incorporated, manufacturers of energy solutions equipment, including valve systems and power lines, has been awarded a contract by Yunnan Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Company for providing two circuits of 550kV-3150A Gas Insulated Lines (GIL) for the Huangdeng Hydro Power Plant in Yunnan Province, China.

Last Tuesday, August 25, 2015, The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station came back online. This was three days after the plant experienced what plant officials said at the time was “an automatic shutdown due to the closure of a single main steam isolation valve (MSIV).

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts is back online after an automatic shutdown was triggered this past weekend. The shut-down was caused by a broken instrument control line feeding one of the plant’s four main steam isolation valves.

Michigan-based DTE Energy has awarded outage services work to General Electric Power & Water through GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and GE Power Generation Services (PGS) for the utility’s Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has sent inspectors to the Omaha Power District Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, which is located in the state of Nebraska. The inspectors are investigating after a faulty valve was discovered, reported and repaired.

Late last month, the workers at Farley nuclear power plant located near Dothan in southeast Alabama, took Unit 1 offline for a scheduled refuelling and maintenance outage. Workers with Southern Nuclear were performing upgrades to the plant systems and components in addition to refuelling the reactor and performing regular maintenance and testing.

In an inspection report released by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, federal regulators have announced that the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station may be subjected to even stricter oversight because of the glitches that occurred after the reactor shut down during a blizzard this past January.