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Columbia Plant Overview

© 2013 Westinghouse Electric Company LLC. All Rights Reserved.Westinghouse Non-Proprietary Class 3

Columbia Plant Overview

Nancy Blair ParrEnvironment, Health & Safety

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Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility

Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse Electric Company provides fuel, services, technology,

plant design, and equipment to utility

Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse Electric Company Headquarters - Cranberry PA.

p g , q p yand industrial customers in the worldwide commercial nuclear

electric power industry

Nearly 50 percent of the nuclear power plants in operation worldwide, and nearly 60 percent in the United States, are based on Westinghouse technology

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Westinghouse Nuclear FuelUS Customer Base (Over 50% of market)

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=W PWR

= BWR (Fuel & CRB)

= CE PWR

= AP1000

Westinghouse Nuclear FuelEuropean Customer Base

FranceIncreasing beyond 25% PWR - Gravelines 1,2,6, Cruas 1 2 Belleville 1

UK

100% AGR 100% Magnox

Belgium

PWR: Tihange 2, 3 Doel 4

Finland

BWR: Olkiluoto 2VVER: LoviisaCruas 1,2, Belleville 1,

Dampierre 1,3, Blayais 2, Tricastin 4

Spain

PWR: Almaraz, Asco, Vandellos, Zorita

BWR: Cofrentes

ENUSA (licensee)

SwedenBWR: Barsebäck 2Oskarshamn 1, 2, 3Vasteras Plant

Springfields Fuel

Germany

BWR: Brunsbuttel, Krummel, Philipsburg 1, Gundremmingen

PWR: Grohnde, Isar 2, Emsland

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Switzerland

BWR: Leibstadt

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Slovenia

PWR: Krsko

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Westinghouse Nuclear FuelAsian Customer Base

WestinghouseManufacturing

Plant

WestinghouseJapan

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JapanOffices

WestinghouseKorea

Offices

WestinghouseChina Mainland

Offices

Westinghouse TaiwanOffice

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WestinghouseTechnologyLicensees

WestinghouseMaterials

Customers

WestinghouseFuelled

Reactors

WestinghouseAP1000

Reactors

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Westinghouse Nuclear FuelADDISON ROAD PLANT

Windsor, CT

Produces CE Design Mechanical ComponentsSPECIALTY METALS PLANT

Blairsville, PA

15 0M ft capacity

WESTERN ZIRCONIUM PLANT

15.0M ft. capacity13.0 M ft. load

Fabricates Fuel Tubing from WZ TREX

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COLUMBIA PLANTColumbia, SC

1700 MTU capacity1400 MTU load

Fabricates Fuel Assemblies and Performs Product Engineering and Testing

WESTERN ZIRCONIUM PLANTOgden, UT

4 M lb. capacity3 M lb. load

Produces Zirconium Metal from Zircon Sand

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Columbia Plant

Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel

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• Opened 1969

• 550 000 ft2 facility (51 500 m2)

Westinghouse Columbia Plant

• 550,000 ft facility (51,500 m )

• 1156 acre site (4.7 km2)

• UF6 conversion through fuel assembly (FA)

• FA and core component manufacture

• Product design and testing

• Originally rated at 1200 MTU/a

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• Current capacity at 1700 MTU

• Over 90,000 PWR & 3500 BWR assemblies

• Approximately 1200 people, 900 in the plant

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• Owned by Toshiba

Over $100 M in annual compensation at

Westinghouse Columbia Plant – Other Key Facts

• Over $100 M in annual compensation at Columbia Site

• ISO 9001 Certified (Quality)

• ISO 14001 Certified (Environmental)

• Some starting material made from blended

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down weapons grade uranium

• Over 10% of electricity generated in the entire US comes from nuclear fuel made at our plant

UF6

Columbia PlantFuel Fabrication Process

Tubing,Springs& End Plugs

Nozzles

Convertto UO2Powder

Pellets- UO2- Erbia- ZrB2

Fuel Rods

Fuel Assemblies

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Grids & Skeletons

UN Zirc and Inconel Straps

Recycle

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Annual Fuel Production at Columbia Plant (1968 through 2012)

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1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010

Westinghouse Columbia Priorities

Continuous Improvement In ...

Safety DeliveryQuality

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Pretend Someone is Watching…

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Recent Trends in Safety

1.52

1.38 1.391.33

1 271.40

1.60 CFFF 12CFFF 12--month rolling Incident Ratesmonth rolling Incident Rates

TRIR DACR ISAR1.27

1.17

0.971.05

1.19

0.91 0.910.84

0.700.65

0.75

0.59

0.400.33 0.33

0.46 0.470.41

0 28 0 280.35

0.42 0.420.35 0.35 0.36 0.37

0.40

0.60

0.80

1.00

1.20

TRIR DACR ISAR

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0.200.13 0.13

0.20 0.200.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.15

0.07

0.28 0.280.22

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Recent Trends in SustainabilityRecent Trends in Sustainability

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Westinghouse Community Involvement

● Partnership with Mill Creek Elementary

●Girls In Science

●Women In NuclearCreek Elementary School

●Wildlife and Industry Together (W.A.I.T.)

●United Way

● Adopt A Highway

●Women In Nuclear (WIN)

●NA-Young Generation of Nuclear (NAYGN)

●Governor's School for Science & Mathematics

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● Adopt-A-Highway

● Adopt-A-Waterway

Science & Mathematics

●Many Service Projects

We strive to be a responsible corporate citizen!

Other Columbia Plant Successes

Created a Multi-Assault Counterterrorism Action

Capabilities (MACTAC) program and taught the class to our

law enforcement

Created an Active Shooter Detection, Mitigation and

Response seminar and sponsored the event through the

American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS)

I iti t d t t id f i d t i l

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Initiated a statewide group for industrial emergency

preparedness to promote sharing of best practices, lessons

learned and training opportunities

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Other Columbia Plant Successes (continued)

Seventeen volunteer employees were certified as Industrial

Emergency Response Specialists (there are less than 200

currently in the USA)

Continued our year-over-year reduction in radiation dose to

employees and the environment

Shipped fuel assemblies for new AP1000 China Plant and

building fuel assemblies for plants currently under

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construction in South Carolina and Georgia

Built first ever Small Modular Reactor Assembly

Ongoing Challenges

Managing the cumulative impact of regulation for improving

safety, regulatory efficiency and predictability

Ongoing efforts to assure physical and cyber security for

our facility

Completion of “beyond design basis” seismic upgrades to

our facility

Continuing to meet year-over-year higher standards

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expected by ourselves and our customers

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Questions?

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