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The design, fabrication, testing, and delivery of an Ex-Vessel Storage Tank which will be a sodium filled American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section III pressure vessel with internal rotating carousel for storage of new and spent core components.

Design, fabrication, testing and delivery of gas routing and control equipment for the argon cover gas, including gas accumulator skids, overpressure protection skids, a safety isolation valve skid, and an oil bubbler.

Design, testing, delivery, and training of a plant cyber system (PCS). The cyber defense architecture for the System employs a multilayered approach to ensure robust protection against potential cybersecurity threats. This strategy is built on layers to provide a comprehensive defense mechanism. Equipment would include Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), firewalls, certificate authority, asset monitoring, data diodes, & Portable Media and Mobile Device (PMMD).

Design, testing, and delivery of a a reactor instrumentation system (RIS).

Design, fabrication, testing and delivery of a anticipatory seismic trip system that measures ground motion, applies required signal processing and logic, and automatically generates output actuation signals to the reactor trip breakers.

Design, fabrication, and testing for the New Assembly Preconditioning Station. This vessel will be used to pre-heat and inert fresh fuel assemblies and includes a rotating carousel and pre-heating and inerting capabilities. The vessel is to be designed to ASME BPVC VIII.

Design, fabrication, testing, delivery, and maintenance personnel training of a physical security system (NSC). The NSC shall include supply of necessary cabinets, displays, operator/engineer stations, and hardware/software including I/O. Equipment would include security computer, video assessment, security communication, access control, intrusion detection, & physical search.

Design, fabrication, testing, and delivery of Sodium Level Instruments. These instruments will be located in drywells passing through the reactor head. The sensing devices will not contact Sodium, but will be exposed to high radiation and elevated temperatures.

Design, fabrication and delivery of a head tank partially filled with sodium. This tank are designed to ASME BPVC VIII – Division 1.

Design, fabrication, testing, inspection and delivery of Rotatable Plug Assembly (RPA) Seals. These are static and dynamic, provide the seal functions at the pressure retaining boundary in the Reactor Enclosure system to prevent egress of cover gas to out of the Reactor Vessel. These will be a part of the ASME Section III, Division 5 pressure boundary.

Sourcing and delivery to site of elemental sodium for use in the Natrium Reactor and the Test and Fill Facility.

Design, fabrication, testing, and delivery of a fuel transfer lift and associated prototype. This elevator-like lift has three primary functions: charge and discharge core components into and out of the reactor, provide a portion of the primary containment boundary for the reactor vessel during refueling, and provide adequate shielding during normal operations and refueling outages.

The design, fabrication, testing, delivery, and maintenance personnel training of a physical security system (NSC). The NSC shall include supply of necessary cabinets, displays, operator/engineer stations, and hardware/software including I/O. Equipment would include security computer, video assessment, security communication, access control, intrusion detection, & physical search.

Design, fabrication, and delivery of failed fuel canisters.

Design and fabrication of multiple electromechanical jack assemblies and a synchronous lift controller.

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 15-20 HT9 upper end plates to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

Manufacturing, quality control testing, and shipping of 15-20 HT9 shield blocks to be shipped to the Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington, NC.

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.

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.