Nuclear Power Generation
Aggreko: One stop for all Nuclear Power Plant Generation Needs
Finding an equipment vendor that partners with plant engineers, project managers, and outage coordinators is crucial for nuclear power generation operations. The vendor should have a track record of conceptualizing and executing solutions for planned nuclear plant refuelling outages. This is key to the success and safety of power generation maintenance operations.
Time is essential during refuelling outages. Safety and time are key when implementing maintenance or upgrade projects. Each day of an outage reduces plant uptime, increases maintenance costs, and challenges ALARA goals.
Aggreko is nimble enough to deliver solutions within your detailed outage project time frames. This ensures maintenance activities are completed as scheduled. We employ experts familiar with the nuclear power generation industry who have the experience and accreditation to contribute systems that meet your maintenance objectives, including:
- Supporting outage projects with turnkey power, fluid system, and compressed air solutions
- Deploying alternate power and cooling systems to supplement plant systems
- Offering solutions when LCO commitments become challenged
- Safely increasing worker stay-time through heat mitigation in nuclear power facilities
Key HVAC, refrigeration, and heat rejection system components are often repaired, replaced, or decontaminated during nuclear plant outages. Some of these components can be single points of vulnerability, risking plant reliability and personnel safety. Even non-critical component failures can pose unacceptable risks.
Our technicians and engineering teams have extensive industry experience serving nuclear power generation customers. We work closely with your system’s engineers, project managers, or outage supervisors to meet your specific project requirements.
Preserving plant and personnel safety
Ensuring worker safety in the nuclear power industry is paramount in any outage-related activities. Aggreko understands the importance of developing heat mitigation techniques and workspace cooling solutions to increase worker “stay-time” parameters, while always maintaining safe working conditions.
During outages, particularly in hot conditions, maintaining a cooler environment can significantly enhance worker efficiency. Aggreko offers temperature control solutions to cool work areas, ensuring that tasks can be completed comfortably and safely. By partnering with Aggreko, you can benefit from our expertise in turnkey power and cooling solutions for your plant outage projects. Our dedicated project teams are committed to limiting outage days and ensuring worker safety.
The following represents an example of equipment comprising a supplemental ice condensing glycol cooling system:
- Refrigeration units capable of reducing fluid temperatures to -5°F
- Electrical distribution to switch between house-power and generators
- Circulation pumps capable of producing the required pressure differential for the system
- Accessories: manifolds, power cables, fuel tanks, expansion tanks, etc.
Frequently asked questions
We reduce outage timelines by providing engineered rental solutions that keep cooling or utility-dependent processes running smoothly, so you can get essential tasks done without disruption.
By pre-staging equipment, ensuring that our solutions integrate quickly with onsite systems, and maintaining a 24/7 technical support team, we help plant operators avoid the problems that often make outages last longer than they should. In the process, working more efficiently and reliably can also help you to reduce daily maintenance costs.
We also assist in safely increasing worker efficiency through effective temperature control, which minimizes worker fatigue and improves task completion.
When a Limiting Condition for Operation (LCO) is at risk – due to equipment degradation, environmental stressors, or system unavailability – operators must act quickly to maintain compliance and ensure plant safety.
You might need to implement engineering controls such as supplemental cooling, energy, or compressed air systems to restore functionality.
To avoid plant derating or shutdown, you’ll need to act as quickly as possible.
Contingency plans can provide vital support and continuity here, making sure that pre-approved, pre-tested equipment that perfectly suits your requirements can be on site fast.
During an outage, it’s important to have solutions in place that can help you maintain safety, efficiency, and operational continuity while your permanent equipment is out of action.
Common temporary equipment includes oil-free compressed air units to reduce contamination during maintenance, refrigeration solutions for fluid cooling, and temporary electrical distribution solutions and generators.
Whenever you implement temporary energy or HVAC solutions, make sure they’re designed with nuclear site safety and compliance protocols in mind.
We provide mission-critical rental solutions that supplement or temporarily replace plant systems during outage periods.
This includes: power generation and distribution to support auxiliary systems; compressed air solutions for component decontamination and maintenance; and cooling or refrigeration units to protect equipment performance and worker safety.
Our engineering teams work closely with your outage coordinators, project managers, and system engineers to deliver customized, fully compliant temporary infrastructure. Together, we’ll ensure your maintenance milestones are met while minimizing schedule creep and operational risk.
Reliable energy for critical utility needs
Aggreko partners with utilities to deliver flexible power generation and distribution solutions that keep communities connected. Whether it’s bridging power during infrastructure upgrades, supporting grid stability through peak demand, or providing rapid response during outages, our scalable solutions ensure reliability and resilience from planned upgrades to unexpected events.