Outage and Field Services

Westinghouse has been offering BWR services since the 1980s.

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

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.