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Design, fabrication and delivery of three sodium drain tanks. Two large tanks are identical, and one is a smaller supplemental tank. These tanks are designed to ASME BPVC VIII – Division 1.

Design, fabrication, testing, and delivery of the Pin Removal Cell (PRC). This machine has remote manipulators for the manual operation of handling socket removal/reinstallation, the Lead Test Pins (LTP) attachment to the Plug Extraction Machine (PEM), and pin canister opening/closing.

Design, fabrication, and delivery of a pin shipping cask, a specialty transportation cask designated to ship irradiated fuel pins from site to off site laboratory.

Design support, Fab and Test for equipment that will be a set of shielded casks and supporting equipment used to remove, store, and install major reactor head equipment. This includes shielded casks for long-term storage, as well as floor valves, beams, and adapters to support the casks and mate them to the reactor vessel. Design codes applicable to all or parts of this work would be ASME BPVC-III-I, ASME B31.3, ANSI N14.6, IEEE 1290 and AWS D1.6.

Fabrication, fill, testing and delivery of Fixed In-Vessel Shielding (FIVS) containers filled with powdered neutron shielding material. The FIVS is permanently installed shielding within the Reactor Vessel that must last the lifetime of the plant. This will be a ASME III Div 5 fabrication.

Fabrication and delivery of a Pool Immersion Cell (PIC). The PIC removes residual sodium coolant from core assemblies and transfers them to the Spent Fuel Pool. Includes a process skid, a pressure vessel, an elevator, and trolley.

Design, fabrication, testing and delivery of a Plug Handling Fixture (PHF). This portable machine has a hoist assembly and grapple enclosed in an airtight container to remove, transport and replace shield plugs.

Design, fabrication, testing (TBD), and delivery of sodium drain valves on small bore piping.

Design, fabrication, and delivery of a pin transfer cask, a intermediate shield cask with internal hoist to move pin canisters from a hot cell to a transportation cask.

Design, fabrication, and delivery of a grapple exchange box, a inert glovebox that allows the EVHM and BLTC grapples to be lowered into the box, disconnected from the machine for cleaning. There is an additional space for a second grapple to attached to the machine to continue operations.

Design, fabrication, and delivery of a drip pan exchange box, a sealed and inert portable maintenance box that will interface with the EVHM and BLTC. THe drip pan box, allows from drip pans, full of sodium drippage to be remove from the machine, move to a facility for cleanout, along with a space for a new drip pan to be installed in the machine.

Desing, fabrication, and delivery of a external fuel handling waste gas gccumulator, a large gas pressure vessel that provides a buffer volume between external fuel handling equipment exhaust gas and the plant stack. This vessel ensure controlled pressure and flow release to stacks.

Design, fabrication and delivery of a long reach grapple that interfaces with the pool handling machine to move core assemblies.

Design, fabrication and delivery of a long reach grapple that interfaces with core assemblies to move from the inspection stand to a preconditioning station.

Fabrication and delivery of a sealed port between various fuel handling equipment to maintain inert environmental boundaries.

Manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 500 – 600, 12–15-foot hexagonal HT9 ducts with hard-face coated stepped wall thickness load pads. Typical equipment required to manufacture ducts are large draw benches and atmosphere-controlled heat treatment furnaces.

Manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 1,000,000 feet of HT9 wire and 50,000 shield slugs to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 50,000 12–15-foot HT9 cladding tubes. Three different sizes of tubing will be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 15-20 large-diameter HT9 guide & inner-duct tubes to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Procurement, manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 500-600 stainless steel hexagonal handling sockets comprised of multiple similar part numbers to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Procurement, manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 500-600 stainless steel inlet nozzles comprised of multiple similar part numbers to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Procurement, manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 20,000 pounds high-density sintered B4C pellets to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Procurement, manufacturing, assembly, quality control testing, and shipping of 15-20 complete damper assemblies to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Processing, quality control testing, and shipping of HT9 coiled rod to manufacturing end-users. The coiled rod will be used for manufacturing wire, slugs, and other possible components.

Processing, quality control testing, and shipping of HT9 billets converted into hollows for further processing at manufacturing end-users. The hollows will be used to manufacture multiple components.

Procurement, manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 500-600, nickel-based alloy seal rings to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Procurement, manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 4000 - 5000 nickel-based alloy plenum springs to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Procurement, manufacturing, assembly, quality control testing, and shipping of completed machined components and other direct materials in production quantities. This category contains over 100,000 individual parts from approximately 50 different component types made of multiple alloys to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Procurement, manufacturing, assembly, quality control testing, and shipping of 40,000-50,000 completed tag gas assemblies to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Procurement, manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 500-600 nickel-based alloy flow restrictors to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.