Control rod drive housing repair – For BWR reactors
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Framatome has developed, qualified, and deployed tooling and processes to support the current and future needs of BWR Control Rod Drive (CRD) Housing repairs. We worked with EPRI to develop the standard BWRVIP-58A repair for CRD housings and the tooling to implement the CRD housing repair design geometries. In addition, we designed the repair based on its experience with PWR head penetrations utilizing code case N-638.
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