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2 May 2006 - Westinghouse Electric Company subsidiary PaR Nuclear, Inc. has won a contract to provide refueling equipment for new construction units at Qinshan in China.
The equipment will be provided for Units 3 & 4 of the Qinshan Nuclear Power Phase II extension project. Qinshan is located in Haiyan county, Zhejiang province.
PaR Nuclear, along with its in-country fabrication partner, Shanghai Crane and Conveyor Works (SCCW), will work together to provide the equipment over the next three years, with the first equipment deliveries scheduled for summer and fall of 2007.
The contract scope includes refueling machines, fuel transfer systems, spent fuel handling machines, and auxiliary cranes for both units. Engineering design will begin immediately with manufacturing to start later this year.
PaR Nuclear provides expertise in the area of automated fuel handling equipment and outage critical crane systems, and is the original equipment manufacturer of fuel-handling equipment for 57 nuclear power plants in seven countries, including 35 in the United States.
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