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10.04.2009,

SCHOTT’s Electrical Penetration Assemblies for Nuclear Power Plants

Maintenance-free Performance - New product information now available!

10 April 2009 -- With the nuclear renaissance in motion, nuclear power capacity worldwide has been increasing steadily with over 40 new reactors under construction in 12 countries. New reactor designs have also been created. In addition to the 60 years of minimum qualified lifetime, the new reactor designs offer new safety standards while increasing efficacy with higher temperatures and higher pressure limits.

Electrical Penetration Assemblies are safety critical components that provide the pass-through for power, control and instrumentation cables into the sealed off reactor vessel. The new reactor designs require special electrical penetration assemblies, designed to perform and remain hermetic at higher temperature and pressure limits.

Since the early 1960s, SCHOTT has been consistently supplying superior glass-to-metal sealed (GTMS) large-scale feedthroughs used in Electrical Penetration Assemblies (EPAs) for nuclear power plants. The reliability and durability of SCHOTT’s signature GTMS technology has been proven more than 5000 times in over 50 nuclear power plants worldwide as these EPAs have remained to be maintenance-free throughout the last 5 decades.

To find out more about SCHOTT’s experience and capabilities about EPAs for the nuclear industry, please refer to the new information sheet “Electrical Penetration Assemblies for Nuclear Power Plants”.

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