GE Steam Power completed a primary steam turbine and generator failure at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania without any protection incident due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Initially scheduled for April, the outage was postponed until September as COVID-19 spread to the region; however, at the request of the Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN), the allocation was re-accelerated to begin in June.
Work at Cernavoda ended in just 30 days under a multi-year service contract with SNN. -free base force.
“Cernavoda is one of the highest vital energy resources in Romania,” said Cosmin Ghita, CEO of SNN. “Maintaining the operation to obtain CO2-free energy is essential for both our country’s energy source and environmental commitments.
“We recognize that ending this interruption on an accelerated schedule required professionalism and creativity. GE’s teamwork and flexibility have been the key to our success. “
One of the most demanding situations of the task of bringing the entire compulsory cash body of workers to the Cernavoda site from outside Europe.
Although GE relies heavily on local resources for its European customers, the disruption required several US box specialists to do so. But it’s not the first time Get the job done, adding maintenance, excluding turbines and box materials.
With flight restrictions and unforeseen cancellations due to the pandemic, GE took the step of leasing a charter flight to shipping specialists, thus avoiding delays in assignments and ensuring the protection of its experts.
GE also asked two environmental, fitness and protection experts to monitor project protection protocols, while SNN examined staff on-site on a daily basis.
The NSS’s role in the security partnership was essential to comply with national and local protocols and helped it save any instance of COVID-19 or after the final touch of the project.
Paul Wise, managing director of GE Steam Power Europe, said: “Working intensively with SNN, we were able to make imaginable what we thought was unimaginable in May.
This assignment illustrates the efforts of our team this year, with more than two hundred interruptions made in the first part of 2020 in Europe in the first part of 2020, despite the pitfalls related to the COVID-19 pandemic. productivity point has been made imaginable through the association of customers like SNN. »
The local GE team has been supporting the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant for 33 years, adding all maintenance since 2004.