Modifications Engineering & Design
Sargent & Lundy's expert staff deploys our well-proven engineering and design processes to perform nuclear plant modifications. Each client benefits from our collective know-how, learned from assignments across the U.S. and Canadian nuclear fleets. With our diverse experience, we are adept at optimizing modifications for individual station design and client-unique practices. Our knowledge provides our clients well-grounded plan support for improving operational safety and efficiency. We take a systematic approach to plant improvements within a prioritized framework.
Comprehensive support for every phase of modification
Many clients enlist our comprehensive support for modifications from initial scoping and walk-downs through detailed engineering and design change package delivery, including on-site support during implementation. Our overall modification execution philosophy is to achieve plant changes at lowest cost and to provide high quality deliverables that improve the quality of the plant design basis.
Representative projects
- Adjustable speed drive installation
- Breaker replacements
- Buried and above ground piping replacement
- Cooling system upgrades
- Digital control upgrades
- Dry cask storage facilities
- Extended power uprate
- Feedwater heater replacement
- Pump replacements
- Steam dryer replacement
- Security upgrades
- Turbine rotor replacements









