ALSTOM wins a contract worth more than 190 million euros for the retrofit of a Swedish nuclear plant

Under the contract with Ringhals AB, owned by Swedish energy
companies Vattenfall and Sydkraft, ALSTOM will supply new
internal retrofit parts for four turbine/generator sets at
units 3 & 4 of the four-unit plant. Each set contains one
generator, one high-pressure steam turbine and three
low-pressure steam turbines.

In addition, ALSTOM will replace and upgrade moisture
separator reheaters, turbine instrumentation and control
system, main steam valves and other balance of plant, as well
as carrying out dismantling, installation, commissioning and
testing work.

Thanks to an upgrade of the nuclear reactors and the design
of the retrofitted turbine and generator equipment, the rated
electrical power output of each of the two units will increase
from the current 920 MW to slightly more than 1100 MW on unit 3
and approximately 1150 MW on unit 4.

Most of the work will be carried out during scheduled annual
outage periods, with the main installation work for unit 3
taking place in 2006 and 2007, and in 2008 and 2011 for unit
4.

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