
Entergy—Arkansas Nuclear One Generating Station
APTIM provides best-in-class maintenance, modification and construction services to Entergy at the Arkansas Nuclear One nuclear power plant located on Lake Dardanelles just outside Russellville, Arkansas. The station is a two-unit pressurized water reactor site, with each unit producing 950 MW, and is the only nuclear power plant in Arkansas.
Scope of services:
- Modification and supplemental maintenance services, capital projects
- Arkansas asbestos contractor (licensed)
Staff/Craft Levels: 20/700—Outage 5/95—Non-outage
The next outage is scheduled for the fall of 2016.
Representative tasks include:
- Mechanical modifications
- Electrical modifications
- ISI support
- Turbine generator overhaul support
- Snubber testing
- Plant painting
- Main condenser tube bundle
- High-pressure feedwater heater replacement
- Feedwater venturi replacement
- Preheat/postweld heat treatment
- Dry fuel storage support
- Control room chiller replacement
- Scaffold training and erection
- Valve maintenance and modifications
- Intake traveling screen replacement/modification
- Asbestos abatement projects
- Lead abatement projects
In addition to Arkansas Nuclear One, APTIM provides the maintenance and modification services to the Entergy North and South Nuclear fleets. APTIM enjoys a successful relationship with Entergy, a strategic account. We have supported numerous refuel outages and forced outages over the past several years. APTIM utilizes mixed craft for certain tasks to maintain a diverse workforce for possible emergent work. We also move core group craft employees from site to site to support refueling outages and forced outages.