When making reservations, specify Chicken, Beef, or Veggie dinner and tell us how

you found out about the meeting, email, snailmail, or other methods.

New steam generator being prepared for movement into the Reactor Building

Our speaker is Gil Williams, PE, Supervisor of Mechanical Design Engineering of SCE &G.

After 10 years of operation the three steam generators of Unit 1 needed replacement due to stress corrosion cracking and other serious tube problems. The existing steam generators were replaced in the fall of 1994 and took 94 days. At that time, this was a world record for steam generator replacement. Each steam generator weighed 360 tons, measuring 14 feet in diameter and 67 feet in length.

In a nuclear power plant, the steam generators are massive tube and shell heat exchangers used to produce non-radioactive steam to turn the turbine / generator and thus produce electricity. At V.C. Summer each steam generator passes 1000 megawatts of heat to the feedwater producing 4,000,000 pounds of steam @ 1000 psig per hour.

Come join us to see how these units were put into the reactor containment building and all of the other exciting adventures during this big project. …..

IMPORTANT G.E. SECURITY INFORMATION READ IT !

"GE Gas Turbines welcome you to the Gas Turbine Technology Center. We ask that our ASME visitors make themselves at home in the auditorium, cafeteria, and restroom areas on the first floor, but consider other areas of the building off-limits without an approved GE escort.

Laptop PCs can be brought to meetings, but they need to be logged in and tagged at the security station. Cameras are not allowed without pre-approved passes. Please enter through the employee entrance where the guard may ask you to sign in and obtain a visitor's pass."

THE MAP AND DIRECTIONS:

Please note that due to a scanner problem, the map is Not on this version of the newsletter. If further information is needed

Contact Don Baldwin at dbaldwin@innova.net. Thank you.

Take exit 51 to Woodruff Rd.

Take a on Woodruff Rd. You want to head East [away from downtown]

Go 1 mile and take a LEFT on GARLINGTON ROAD. This intersection has a railroad track

that crosses Woodruff Road.

Go about 2 miles and take a right at the third road going into the GE facilities.

Take the first left on this road. Follow it as it passes the front of the GTTC. Take the

next right and proceed to the employee parking lot.