Upper Feeder Platforms
Detailed design of the Upper Feeder Platform
Bruce Power
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Tiverton, Ontario
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2017 – 2020
Platforms designed above the reactor face.
Work platforms support personnel and tooling.
Replacement of feeder tubing and nuclear fuel channel assemblies.
Challenges
- As part of the MCR program, the carbon steel feeder tubing and the specialized nuclear fuel channel assemblies of the primary heat transport (PHT) system needed to be replaced.
- A portion of the feeder program work was required to take place in parallel with the detube/retube (DT/RT) work occurring below in the vault. As a result, temporary work platforms needed to be designed above the reactor face to facilitate the feeder replacement work.
Solutions
- Provided detailed design of the upper feeder templates and template support structure.
- Prepared design planning documents like DP, PEP, PQP, etc.
- Accepted design deliverables from the subcontractor (Winsafe Corp.) for the Upper Feeder Platform.
Highlights
- Design of temporary work platforms allowed work feeder program work and detube/retube work to take place in parallel, a requirement needed to meet the overall project schedule.
- Completed the role of ADE in accordance with the Engineering Change Control (ECC) process (BP-PROC-00539/00542).
Project numbers
$1.5 million capital value