Today’s feedwater heater rebuilding companies can rebuild aging units in a matter of weeks, while new replacement units can take a year or two to manufacture. In many cases, rebuilding can proceed ...
Nuclear power plant outages are filled with intense work and tight schedules. A feedwater heater replacement project at Duke Energy’s Oconee station in South Carolina shows how teamwork coupled with ...
Long-time POWER readers may remember Marmaduke Surfaceblow, a fictional character whose engineering escapades were brilliantly portrayed in hundreds of stories published within POWER magazine’s pages ...
MONITORING OF THE SHELL wall thickness of feedwater heaters at Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Kansas in 2003 revealed erosion of three of the 12 low-pressure feedwater heater shells. Further ...
Oconee Nuclear Station engaged its contractors eight months before a complicated feedwater heater replacement project was set to begin. To execute the project successfully, contractor Day & Zimmerman ...
Framatome has completed the first of 12 low-pressure feedwater heater replacements at Arizona Public Service's Palo Verde nuclear power plant as part of a seven-year campaign to replace all the ...
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