Tag: nuclear

Westinghouse Electric Co. will be applying to the Department of Energy for up to USD452 million for the rapid development and deployment of the company’s small modular reactor technology in Cranberry, Pennsylvania.

The new Westinghouse AP1000 type nuclear reactors are to be installed in the new builds at Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia and the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station in South Carolina.

In a contract worth $16.2 million, Velan SAS, Velan Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary located in Lyon, France, has been selected by CNPE (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co, Ltd.) and as a result, the CNEIC (China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation) awarded an important contract to Velan for the supply of nuclear-classified gate and globe valves for the two new nuclear power plants of FuQing Units 3 and 4 located in Fujian province, China.

Enertech, a business unit of Curtiss Wright flow control, has developed an extended mission gas spring actuator model to support nuclear plant cool down during station black conditions. Conventional electro-hydraulic, gas spring actuators are limited to one direction; fail safe positioning of isolation valves.

Rolls-Royce has acquired R Brooks Associates. Brooks is a market leader in secondary steam generator inspections in the US and has a well established presence in France.

AREVA will serve as a key member of the team of contract partners helping the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) complete the partially finished Bellefonte 1 nuclear power plant in northern Alabama.

It is on the first day of summer, in The Woodlands, Texas, where history is being made.  The first day of the first Valve World Conference in the Americas starts off with a Power Breakfast and introductory speeches.  

The McIlvaine Co has recently published a report that indicates the demand for industrial valves will expand from its present level of just under USD 50 billion/yr to over USD 100 billion/yr by 2030.

Climax Portable Machine Tools has developed a new line of heavy-duty portable flange facers that gives machinists the option to select one of three configuration options. 

Edison Lobao, Brazil's new minister of mines and energy, has indicated that the government plans to give approval by the end of 2011 for the construction of four new nuclear power plants in the country.