Modernization and modification to existing machinery is essential to improve the safety, reliability and efficiency of aging Fuel-handling Equipment and Outage-critical Cranes. With the high cost of downtime during an outage, the investment in such work often pays for itself in one or two outages. Current equipment designs address weak points in the safety of older equipment. Reliability issues are addressed by replacing components prone to failure with newer, more reliable components. Similarly, obsolete parts are replaced with more readily available parts.
Efficiency gains are a large part of modernizations. New equipment is designed for higher traverse speeds while modern automatic controls can safely improve the rate of fuel movement.
PaR Nuclear has successfully performed many such projects over the years and has the experience to manage the often unique challenges of modernizing older equipment. |
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