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Arabelle Solutions to Supply Turbine Island Equipment for GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s SMR Project at Darlington
Arabelle Solutions is pleased to be supplying an SMR nuclear steam turbine, TOPAIR generator, and associated heat exchanger for the first GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 small modular reactor project at Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Canada.
In the media
Big blades for HPC
Ivan McBean, Principal Engineer for Aerodynamics, at Arabelle Solutions, outlines in an article for Nuclear Engineering International how the team developed the 75-inch last-stage blade for the Hinkley Point C steam turbine.
Overcoming challenges with size and strict limitations on weight, the team developed new tools and processes to create the largest last-stage blade ever made.
Arabelle turbine
Manufacturing our Arabelle turbine
Watch our flagship Arabelle turbine being assembled in our Belfort factory.
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We designed and built two Arabelle turbines - equipped with the largest last-stage blade ever made - for the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in the United Kingdom.
Once in operation the turbines will produce 3.2GW of low-carbon electricity, enough to power around six million homes.
GIGATOP 4
Boosting power in China and France
In 2019, China’s largest nuclear power generator in service installed one of our GIGATOP 4-pole generators for their nuclear power plant—which boasts a rating of 1,660 MW and a load factor of 82.2%, helping supply 12 TWh of electricity to the Chinese grid.
That same year, another Gigatop 4-pole generator rated 1,495 MW produced 11.6 TWh of low-carbon electricity for the French grid, representing an 88.6% load factor. This equals the average yearly consumption of 2,500,000 households.