Fuel channel replacement completed at Wolsong

摘要

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited on December 1,2010, announced the completion of operations to remove and replace the calandria tubes, pressure tubes, and end fittings of the Wolsong-1 CANDU 6 plant, which is operated by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company (KHNP). "This success marks the first time a CANDU 6 reactor has had all of the [380] fuel channels removed and replaced," said Hugh MacDiarmid, president and chief executive officer of AECL. This completes the most critical part of the Wolsong reactor renovation program, which began in June 2009. The next stage of the project is to remove the multiton tooling systems used to perform the operations and the work platforms supporting them before beginning the feeder installation.