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Replace a head in a short
outage? No problem.
What
delivers the industry's most reliable replacement reactor
vessel head (RVH) while achieving a 25-day refueling
outage world record? The team of Framatome ANP (FANP)
and PSEG Nuclear. On November 6 this remarkable feat
was accomplished, a full ten days ahead of schedule
and four days ahead of the current world record. What
made the difference? It all started with an ongoing
strategic alliance agreement formed between the two
companies in 2002.
"The
success of the Salem 1 outage can be attributed to many
areas of preparation and execution," said Al Reynolds,
AREVA's Regional Manager for PSEG. "Most notable
was the individual employee dedication to safety and
human performance; the rigorous reviews of lessons learned
and the implementation of the resulting corrective actions
from the previous outage; the intense pre-outage planning
and preparation; the improved communications both internally
and with the customer organization; the contingency
planning; our jointly well-developed schedule; and returning
crews operating under excellent hands-on FANP field
management with outstanding teamwork."
Demonstrating
commitment to AREVA's Sustainable Development principle
of Customer Satisfaction, employees from CR&R, Engineering,
ONS, PMO, Quality Assurance, and SGS all contributed
to the success of the project which extended to in-service
inspections as well as refurbishment of the customer's
reactor coolant pump motors at FANP's Pump and Motor
Service Center. Employees from the Jeumont facility
in France also traveled to the site to help with the
outage. Framatome ANP previously completed a reactor
vessel head replacement at Salem 2 during the spring
2005 outage.
The
Salem 1 outage had an excellent safety record with no
OSHA recordables, rework or human performance issues.
"These measured metrics for the reactor head replacement
were outstanding and a world class performance,"
said Dick Labott, PSEG project manager for the Salem
1 and 2 reactor head replacements. In a note sent to
Bob Pruitt, the on-site lead for the project, and Brad
Hawkins, Labott said "your leadership through both
2005 reactor head replacements contributed to the two
best and shortest Salem refueling outages ever. I want
to personally congratulate you for your leadership and
simply stating, a job well done."
Framatome
ANP is fabricating and will deliver replacement steam
generators for Salem 2 during 2007 and will be working
with our co-owned subsidiary, SGT, to perform the installation
during the spring 2008 refueling outage.
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