WEST MIDLANDS, England — Hydratight has designed a piece of technology that brings greater safety and efficiency to nuclear power plants. The company has already secured four orders for its newly launched Lightweight Self-Contained Tensioner (SCT) across the U.S. and Asia.
“The SCT has been in development for two years and in live tests has reduced typical tensioning time from up to four hours to under an hour, with 25-percent less manpower, resulting in lower potential radiation exposure time and greatly reduced reactor downtime,” explained Gavin Coopey, global nuclear market leader of Hydratight. “The product is an advanced reactor pressure vessel stud tensioner. It needs only a power source, no hydraulic connections or remote pump control unit or operator.
“In other systems, tensioners must be connected to a central control unit. Both the new Lightweight SCT and our original Hydratight SCT streamline the whole process. They eliminate the separate control unit as each of the tensioners has its own built-in pumping control system.”
For more information, visit www.hydratight.com or call (800) 895-3849.