Lyle Bohn,
President, Framatome Technologies, Inc.
Matching the Evolving Industry

You'll see a variety of information in this EnVision related to our expanding into new businesses, and expanding within businesses we know. We are excited about this challenge as we grow to meet the industry's evolutionary changes.

Our work at Crystal River 3 is completed after many months of helping Florida Power Corporation restore the plant to service. We worked closely with FPC to accomplish many highly technical tasks, including designing, procuring and constructing a diesel driven emergency feedwater pump and modifying the plant's high-pressure injection system. These projects were in addition to normal refueling activities (inspection of the steam generators, reactor disassembly and assembly, and inspecting the control rod drive mechanisms).

This past fall we also performed Electrosleeving at Callaway, repairing 57 tubes with this first-of-a-kind process in the U.S. Electrosleeve is a great option for plants facing steam generator tube problems.

We continue to work to develop partnerships with other vendors. We are developing new relationships with partners in chemical cleaning for steam generators and condensers, and with valve suppliers, and we will continue to develop these relationships to bring a wider array of services and broader expertise to your business.

In addition, we continue to enter new markets by working as subcontractors on specific tasks in which our expertise is unsurpassed. We have entered the D&D market by accomplishing particular tasks as part of larger efforts; for instance, at Maine Yankee we will spend most of the next year segmenting the reactor vessel internals. We continue to grow our BWR service business; this fall we served as refuel floor manager during Vermont Yankee's fall outage.

We are excited about working to meet your needs; your needs have propelled us into these new markets. As we move forward into the new century we look forward to continuing to work with you.