Comprehensive Services for Generation Plant Facilties
Kinectrics offers specialized capabilities for the nuclear industry.
Proven expertise and experience
Kinectrics gives you the advantage of complete, broad-based capabilities and state-of-the-art facilities provided by an internationally recognized industry leader. Kinectrics Generation Plant Technologies comprises four main service areas: Condition Assessment and Life Extension, Equipment Qualification, Inspection and Maintenance Systems, and Fuel Channel Integrity.
Condition Assessment and Life Extension
Equipment Qualification
- Cable management programs
- Commercial grade dedication services – complete facilities
- Seismic testing
- Main Steam Line Break (MSLB) and Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA) simulation tests
- Reactor thermal hydraulics simulation and components testing
- Engineering services
- Mechanical aging and testing (including large scale)
- Failure analysis (components, polymers and elastomers)
- Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIR) for cable insulation and identification
Cable Management Programs
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Specialized material testing services
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Cable insulation assessment
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Cable quality verification
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Broad range of characterization tools
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Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIR)
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Proven experience
Inspection and Maintenance Systems
- Steam Generator Ultrasonic (TRUSTIE) Inspection Technologies and Field Support Services
- Pressure Tube Inspection Technologies and technical support
- CANDU
- Flaw detection, gauging
- Deuterium in pressure tube, non-destructive measurement
- Garter spring spacer location and relocation
- Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) sensors and systems for:
- Calandria internals
- Online (operating temperature) measurement of PHT feeder pipe thinning
- Optical profiling of piping flaws and defects
- Acoustic Leak Inspection System (ALIS) for leak area location and sizing
- Primary to secondary side steam generator tube leak monitoring
- Specialized vibration monitoring and loose parts monitoring
- Machining and prototyping
- Specialized inspection tooling and components design
Structural Integrity
Zirconium Metallurgy
- Support life management programs of CANDU pressure tubes and other core components
- Experimental capability for corrosion and hydrogen ingress of pressure tubes
- Experimental capability for fracture and delayed hydride cracking of pressure tubes
- Experimental capability for creep, tension and fatigue testing of pressure tubes and other CANDU core materials
- Development of custom-designed/specialized test procedures for CANDU core materials on request
- Microstructural and microchemical analysis of pressure tubes based on SEM and TEM
- Development of models to predict pressure tube performance
Analytical Fracture Mechanics
- Flaw disposition in pressure tubes and steam generator tubes
- Fitness for Service Guidelines developed and updated for pressure tubes and steam generator tubes
- Process zone fracture mechanics for blunt notches
- Component integrity analysis in support of plant operation
Mechanical Engineering
- In situ measurements of stress, strain, pressure, temperature and other physical variables under hostile environments
- Development of ice plug technology for specific and specialized applications in nuclear plants
- Burst test capability to assess the effect of flaws on the integrity of a range of tubing including both straight and elbow sections
Hydro Technology Solutions
- Design/build engineering services for hydro
- Project management
- Condition assessment and repair
- Materials Testing Laboratory
- Inspection and life cycle management of concrete structures
- Instrumentation
- Constuction monitoring
- Peformance monitoring
- QA/QC
Kinectrics Environmental & Nuclear Services Department offers a full range of Analytical Chemistry services for the Nuclear Industry.
For more information, contact
John D’Angelo, 416.207.6193, john.dangelo@kinectrics.com
