East Texas Electric Cooperative (ETEC) commissioned construction of a new hydroelectric plant at the site of the fifty-year-old Lake Livingston Dam, an approximately 2.5 mi earthen embankment that impounds a water supply reservoir. The project...
Brandon Shores Power Plant (BSPP) has a proactive inspection and repair program for circulating water and service water pipelines, including prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP), steel pipe, ductile iron pipe, and others with diameters...
Kori Unit 3 is a 900 MW pressurized water reactor that has been in service since 1985. All operating nuclear power plants in Korea are required to perform a Periodic Safety Review (PSR) every ten years against eleven safety elements per the...
The Carl J. Shapiro Science Center project consisted of 155,000 sq ft of new construction, 40,000 sq ft of renovated space, and infrastructure upgrades. The existing science complex comprises eight main buildings and several secondary...
The Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 3, is part of a 4,700 acre energy complex that contains a 914 MW pressurized water reactor. When the client planned rigging operations for replacement of a steam generator at Unit 3, they required an...
Arizona Public Service Company (APS) chose SGH to perform a condition assessment and develop repairs for the circulating water pipelines at the Cholla Power Plant. The coal-fired power plant, co-owned and operated by APS, has four units, three of...
As part of a campus-wide infrastructure upgrade and renovation, the university required a central plant designed to house large-scale mechanical equipment. SGH was the structural engineer for the two-story, 28,000 sq ft central plant.
Arizona Public Service Company’s Cholla Power Plant has four units with circulating water lines made of 66 in. to 72 in. diameter prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) in Units 2, 3, and 4. PCCP in these three units has been in
By: Wen-How Tong, P. Amico, A. Lubarsky, I. Kouzmina, M. Khatib-Rahbar, M. Ravindra, A. Strohm, J. Rattke, W. Schwarz, D. Rittig
In accordance with German nuclear regulations, a seismic PSA (SPSA) was performed on Kernkraftwerk Neckarwestheim Unit 2 (GKN II), a PWR located in Germany near Stuttgart. The study was conducted using techniques that comply with both German PSA...
By: Philip Hashimoto, Yusof Ghanaat, Olivier Zuchuat, Robert P. Kennedy
Abstract: A series of nonlinear seismic evaluations was performed to determine seismic fragility of the Mühleberg Dam as part of the Seismic Probabilistic Risk Analysis (SPRA) of the Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant (KKM)....
By: Philip Hashimoto, David Nakaki, James J. Johnson, Yahya Bayraktarli, Olivier Zuchuat
Abstract: Deterministic and probabilistic seismic soil structure interaction (SSI) analyses were performed for the Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant SUSAN Building in support of the seismic probabilistic risk assessment of the plant...