Customer:       Ontario Power Generation Inc.
Project:            Active Component Transfer System
Location:         Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, Ontario, Canada
Services:         Engineering, design, procurement, fabrication, assembly, testing

This mobile modular platform system is used for transferring high level radioactive waste between large custom shielded flasks. The system required high accuracy alignment and the structural strength to support extremely heavy flasks over a 50 ft length. It is comprised of rugged modular segments that can be easily located and assembled in a temporary staging area. Flask interface carriages are positioned onto transfer frame rails and the flasks are lowered onto the system.The flasks can be adjusted in all axes using simple manual cranks to ensure that there is a perfect fit between the flasks for the shielded transfer of the radioactive contents.

The fully assembled system is 4' (h) x 8' (w) x 50' (l), weighs 62,000 lbs and accommodates flask combinations that weight up to 160,000 lbs. The design provides the required support, and accurately aligns nine different flask-to-flask configurations.