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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
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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
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1.00
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TRIR DACR ISAR
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0.200.13 0.13
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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