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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
Laurent Cretinon, Vivien Ballesio, Georges Wattiez, Dominique Talbourdet (EDF)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 776-786
As relays, sockets, relay boards and frames will soon reach their qualified life for the French 900 MW Fleet, EDF has to reassess this qualified life. Although several methods are proposed by the IEC 60780 standard, the only one which is applicable here consists in performing additional tests on aged equipment coming from different NPPs. The tests followed by this equipment are described as well as the results obtained. It is demonstrated that a large majority of this equipment can be safely used for 10 or 20 more years at least.