Our engineers and technicians work with proven equipment to perform repair and functional testing on site or at our Element Huntsville facility, the only off-site Radioactive Material Licensed facility for snubber services in the country. This full-service, one-stop approach works to keep your plant on schedule during outages. Our Quality Assurance Program is approved by more than 40 utilities and is in accordance with applicable portions of 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, ANSI N45.2 and 10 CFR.
On-Site Snubber Services
Element's specially designed field service trailers and experienced professionals can provide complete in-service programs on-site during plant outages. Each trailer is a self-contained laboratory equipped with a test machine, a fill and purge system, bridge crane, rebuild tools and office space.
Off-Site Snubber Services
Our Nuclear Center of Excellence is the only service provider with a Radioactive Material License, which allows contaminated snubbers and other nuclear plant components to be repaired and tested.
Snubber Manufacturers
Element performs testing and repair services for:
- • Anchor Darling Anvil
- • Basic Engineers
- • Bergen-Patterson
- • Boeing
- • E-System
- • ITT Grinnell
- • Lisega (Element is the authorized US Lisega service provider)
- • McDowell Wellman
- • Pathon
- • Paul Munroe
- • Power Piping
- • PSA
Snubber Support Services
- • Procedure and work package development
- • Visual inspection
- • Snubber removal and reinstallation
- • Functional testing – large and small bore
- • Large bore in-place testing
- • Repair and overhaul
- • Replacement parts procurement
- • Quality assurance and health physics support
Personnel Certification
Element Snubber Program personnel are certified in accordance with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Section XI and ANSI/ASME O&M requirements. Field personnel are pre-qualified and properly documented using recommendation letters, security clearances, fitness-for-duty screenings and other applicable information.
Element Snubber Customers Include:
• ANO
• Braidwood
• Byron
• Comanche Peak
• Crystal River
• Diablo Canyon
• Farley
• Fermi
• Fort Calhoun
• Hatch
• Hope Creek
• Indian Point 2
• Kewaunee
• LaSalle
• Limerick
• Oyster Creek
• Palisades
• Peach Bottom
• Perry
• Quad Cities
• River Bend
• Salem
• San Onofre
• Shearon Harris
• Surry
• Susquehanna
• Three Mile Island
• Vogtle
• Waterford
Nuclear Energy Services
Nuclear Third Party Qualification
Element is the leading supplier of qualified equipment and replacement parts that are no longer available from their original sources as nuclear grade.
Nuclear Valve Testing
Element provides integrated solutions to valve and actuator O&M challenges using a unique combination of advanced analysis and testing tools.
Nuclear Equipment Obsolescence Solutions
We offer qualified replacements for many electrical and mechanical safety-related components that are no longer available from OEMs.
Nuclear Energy Testing
Element is the primary supplier of safety-related testing services and equipment, engineering, research and consulting services to utilities and power plant equipment manufacturers throughout the world.