Power Maintenance
Shaw’s focus in the maintenance industry is on providing leading services to support our clients’ business objectives.
Nuclear
One of the largest suppliers of nuclear maintenance and modification services in the U.S., Shaw has been a significant contributor to the nuclear industry’s success in reducing outage durations and costs. We monitor and control outage progress, implement corrective action and manage a variety of costs and scheduling for nuclear sites. Shaw can provide assistance with management of all or specific portions of nuclear outage service.
Services:
- Outage planning and execution
- Plant modifications
- Project management
- Technical engineering
- Process improvement
- Environmental, health and safety management
- Radiological services
- Restart testing
- Field engineering
- Training
- Waste management
- Subcontractor management
- Independent spent fuel storage installation – pool to pad
Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D)
Shaw offers extensive maintenance and modification experience directly relating to nuclear plant decommissioning. We have provided decontamination and decommissioning services at eight commercial nuclear reactors, seven research reactors and one U.S. Army reactor, as well as nuclear facility decommissioning services at 10 government facilities.
Shaw performed engineering, design and construction for the decommissioning of Maine Yankee, the first competitive commercial nuclear plant decontamination and decommissioning contract. We worked with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to develop and deploy a first-of-its-kind N-stamp spent fuel canister and achieved U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission license termination and unrestricted release of the site.
Shaw has more than 30 years of technical knowledge and experience from lessons learned in the decontamination and decommissioning of radiological hot cells, laboratories, research and commercial power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. We understand the complex challenges managers and contractors face as they plan the decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, including co-location with other operations, proximity to areas with heavily used public access, unusual isotopes and significant isotopes.
Decontamination services:
- Safety engineering
- Asbestos abatement
- Project management
- Radiation worker training
- Quality assurance programs and oversight
- Waste management services
- Planning/engineering services
- Equipment and system removal
- Special shielding and tooling design
- Licensing and documentation support
- Structural dismantling and demolition
- Waste minimization and volume reduction
- Environmental and radiological monitoring
- Construction and dismantling management
- Packaging, brokering and disposal of wastes
- Occupational radiation exposure management
- Fuel storage solution development and implementation
Plant modification services for decommissioning:
- Pipe dismantling
- Decontamination
- Vessel dismantling
- Removal and packaging
Fossil
Shaw provides maintenance and outage support to the fossil industry across the U.S. We support outages with supervision and craft labor by providing construction and boiler maintenance services, as well as construction labor services.
Learn more about the specialty services we provide to the power industry.