Outage and Field Services

Westinghouse has been offering BWR services since the 1980's.

Some of the many services Westinghouse offers include:

Outage management services
BWR-related services
Weld repair
Valve refurbishment or replacement
Training
Refueling
Under-vessel (UV) maintenance
In-vessel visual inspection (IVVI)
In-vessel ultrasonic inspections

Westinghouse’s outage service team maximizes efficiency and reduces the cost and duration of your outage by:

Cross-training our personnel to perform multiple tasks thereby allowing us to bring fewer people to site.
Utilizing advanced tooling to reduce the critical path.
Driving further optimization via our Integrated Outage Model which allows Westinghouse to partner with our customers and provide all outage services required within the containment building.

In addition, Westinghouse has a full-depth wet vessel mockup at the Chattanooga, Tennessee (USA) BWR Service Center, complete with a fully operational fuel-handling platform. The service center mockup also includes a mock spent fuel pool (SFP).

The reactor vessel mockup has the following components:

One-eight section full-scale in-vessel mockup
Actual reactor components top guide
Fuel supports
Control rod
Jet pumps
In-core instruments
Control rod blade guides
Dummy fuel assemblies
Fuel-handling platform vessel-servicing aids, grapples and cameras

The Chattanooga BWR Service Center includes a full-size, under-vessel mockup complete with a carousel, a leveling tray, a control rod drive (CRD) travel path and an A-frame for loading and unloading mock CRDs.

Outage and Field Services

Westinghouse has been offering BWR services since the 1980's.

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