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- Japan’s Toshiba JFE to jointly produce power plant turbines -…
- Nuclear plant contractors to move into Knoxville Tenn. office…
- TVA tower gets occupants
Japan’s Toshiba JFE to jointly produce power plant turbines -…
Forbes – Oct 2, 2007
The cooperation will initially cover steam turbines with power outputs of up to 100000 kilowatts it said. JFE Engineering now makes around five garbage incinerator steam turbines a year but by taking advantage of the alliance the JFE group unit aims to manufacture 10 or so high-pressure steam turbines at its Tsurumi plant in Yokohama near Tokyo this fiscal year the report said. JFE Engineering plans to supply most of the turbines to Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corp it said. By procuring smaller turbines from the JFE group Toshiba will be able to develop overseas markets for such equipment while allocating more of its resources to development and production of large turbines the report said. 81 yen) yasuhiko.
Nuclear plant contractors to move into Knoxville Tenn. office…
Free with registration – Knoxville News Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 2, 2007
2–Hundreds of skilled contract workers will move into the Tennessee Valley Authority’s largely vacant East Tower this year making the downtown building the engineering nerve center for a nuclear construction project in nearby Spring City. TVA spokesman John Moulton said 200 to 300 contractors will move into at least one floor of the 12-story tower by the end of the year. The work force will do engineering for Unit 2 at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant a never-finished reactor unit for which construction is expected to last five years cost $2. 49 billion and employ as many as 2600 workers. Moulton said the TVA which plans to award about $1 billion worth of.
TVA tower gets occupants
Knoxville News Sentinel – Oct 2, 2007
TVA spokesman John Moulton said 200 to 300 contractors will move into at least one floor of the 12-story tower by the end of the year. The work force will do engineering for Unit 2 at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant a never-finished reactor unit for which construction is expected to last five years cost $2. 49 billion and employ as many as 2600 workers. Moulton said TVA which plans to award about $1 billion worth of contracts for engineering construction and procurement work at the plant is still reviewing proposals from Bechtel Corp. and The Shaw Group Inc. But the two contenders for lead contractor on the project are already gearing up to hire dozens of skilled workers in the area… Another TVA nuclear contractor Washington Group International Inc. lists 22 engineering openings in Knoxville on its Web site. Several of the postings for piping engineers list as a requirement three years of experience in the design of Watts Bar Unit 1 the plant’s operating reactor unit that was finished in 1996 23 years after construction began. TVA itself is advertising for engineers although the federal utility plans to rely largely on contractors for Watts Bar Unit 2 work. Moulton said TVA intends to hire 25 system engineers for pre-operational testing at Unit 2 and will need to hire additional operators at Watts Bar Unit 1 because of attrition. The nuclear industry is in hiring mode as its work force ages and utilities plan to file as many as 29 applications for new reactors in the next three years. Utility officials and federal regulators say finding qualified workers to staff all the projects will be a major challenge in coming years.