2011 NCATC Fall Conference

Industry Tours

Conference attendees will select one of the following industry tours to participate in Friday, October 7.

Alstom Power - Chattanooga

Alstom is a world leader in transport infrastructure, power generation and transmission. The Chattanooga site produces the largest turbines in the world, Alstom’s ARABELLE™ 1,700 MW class nuclear steam turbines. Tour group participants will see the precision and high quality manufacturing process from raw material to finished turbines that eventually leave Chattanooga via the Tennessee River.  
 
SIAG Aerisyn

Since August 2009 Aerisyn Energy LLC has been a division of the SIAG Group.  The production site in Chattanooga produces steel towers with the highest quality and shipment performance for the North American market. With a capacity of 1,000 segments or 250 towers the Chattanooga site is able to produce at full capacity utilization. Aerisyn LLC was founded in 2005 with an open area of 70.000 square meters and canopied area of 21.000 square meters.  The Chattanooga site employs 240.

Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse provides fuel, services, technology, plant design, and equipment for the commercial nuclear electric power industry.Westinghouse Nuclear Services provides a wide range of inspection, maintenance, repair and refueling services to nuclear power plants around the world. In 2008, Westinghouse Electric Company invested $9.45 million to establish a new services facility at its Chattanooga operation. The expansion created 52 new high-value jobs for nuclear engineers and technicians. The site also houses the WEC Welding Institute. The Institute is equipped with 48 weld booths and certifies students after they complete an average of five months of hands-on training. After training, completers can take the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' (ASME) welding qualification exam. The Chattanooga Welding Institute is part of the Westinghouse Chattanooga Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Training Center that will be used to train Westinghouse employees and customers on the safe maintenance and refueling of boiling water reactors in U.S. nuclear power plants. The BWR training facility is composed of a full-scale BWR cavity with vessel, internals, spent fuel pool, and refueling bridge; two 33-ton cranes, under-vessel mock-up and 65,000 square feet of shop floor.