23 Aug (NucNet): Babcock & Wilcox Canada has been awarded a replacement steam generator contract from Industrias Metalúrgicas Pescarmona Sociedad Anónima (IMPSA) for the Embalse nuclear power plant in Argentina.
The company, a subsidiary of US-based Babcock & Wilcox, will design and fabricate key components and provide manufacturing technology for the completion of four Candu replacement steam generators.
IMPSA will deliver the completed RSGs to the single-unit Embalse plant, which is owned and operated by Nucleoeléctrica Argentina.
The work will be performed by B&W Canada’s operations in Cambridge, Ontario.
Nucleoeléctrica Argentina last month secured credit of 240 million US dollars (184 million euro) from the Andean Development Corporation (Corporación Andina de Fomento; CAF) for a lifetime extension of the Embalse plant.
The main activities to be carried out at Embalse are replacing pressure tubes, steam generators, processing computers, and the upgrading of the plant.
Embalse, a 600-megawatt Candu pressurised heavy water reactor supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, began commercial operation in 1984.
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Nucleoeléctrica Argentina Secures Credit For Embalse Life Extension (World Nuclear Review No. 30, 30 July 2010)
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