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NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, July-August 2015
New Energy
India
The
Atomic Energy Regulatory
Board
(AERB) had its 115
th
meeting on
July 8, 2015. In the meeting the Board
granted license for regular operation of
Unit - 1 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power
Project (KKNPP) and Siting Consent
for the Gorakhpur, Haryana Anu Vidyut
Pariyojana (GHAVP)-Units 1 to 4.
Unit -1 of KK-NPP is the first of
the two WER (Russian origin) reactors
located at Kudankulam, Tamil Nadu with
installed electric generating capacity of
1000 MWe each. It is the first commercial
Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) based
nuclear power plant in India. The Safety
review by AERB has confirmed that
the reactor satisfies the requirements
specified by AERB and the current
international safety standards.
The GHAVP is a proposed greenfield
nuclear project with four 700 MWe units
at Gorakhpur, Haryana. The proposed
reactors belong to the series of a new
generation of indigenous 700 MWe
Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor
(PHWR) units. The design of GHAVP- 1
to 4 will be repeat design of the Kakrapar
Atomic Power Project - 3 & 4 (KAPP 3 &
4) and Rajasthan Atomic Power Projects
(RAPP - 7 & 8), which are in advanced
stages of construction.
Contact: Atomic Energy Regulatory
Board
,
telephone: 2550 0018, fax:
Vogtle
Georgia Power
announced the latest
milestone in the construction of Vogtle
Unit 4 – the placement of the CA04
module into the nuclear island. The CA04
module, also known as the reactor vessel
cavity, will house the Unit 4 reactor vessel
and is comprised of five sub-modules.
The CA04 module weighs approximately
64,000 pounds, or 32 tons, and is 27 feet
tall and 21 feet wide. It was assembled
onsite in the modular assembly building
(MAB), moved to the nuclear island as
one piece and lifted into place by a 560-
foot tall heavy lift derrick.
More than 120 workers were
involved in the fabrication and placement
of the CA04 module. As the largest job-
producing project in the state, there are
more than 5,000 workers currently on the
Vogtle expansion site.
The placement of the CA04module is
the latest in a series of recent construction
highlights at the site which include
the concrete placement for the Unit 3
Annex Building basemat, the completion
of the last of 12 separate water boxes
within the Unit 3 Turbine Island and
the arrival of multiple pieces of major
equipment onsite such as the pressurizer
for Unit 4. Georgia Power also recently
announced the completion of a variety of
transmission upgrades and installations at
the site in preparation to connect the new
units to Georgia’s power grid.
Contact: Georgia Power, telephone:
(404)
506-7676,
website:
www.
georgiapower.com
.
United Kingdom
NuGen
, the UK nuclear new-build
developer, announced that a land contract
for Moorside has been signed with the
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
(NDA).
John Clarke, the NDA’s CEO, with
Tom Samson, NuGen’s CEO. The signing
follows successful completion of site
suitability studies at Moorside by NuGen,
which validate the site (to the north and
west of the Sellafield complex), as being
suitable for construction of three reactors.
NuGen will now take responsibility
for the land following payment of an
undisclosed sum to the NDA. The deal
underpins the successful policy of selling
NDA land to new nuclear developers –
and creating value for the taxpayer.
The NuGen Board approved the land
contract signing at a meeting in Tokyo.
The company is now confident the site
is suitable for construction of three
AP1000
®
reactors, as all criteria were
satisfied.
NuGen Chief Executive, Tom
Samson, signed the land deal with the
NDA’s Chief Executive, John Clarke.
Mr. Samson was delighted at the
“major milestone for NuGen’s Moorside
project.”
“This is a key moment in our
Moorside Project journey. Our board has
reached a decision of significance which
confirms Moorside is suitable... NuGen,
our vendors and our expert partners are
all confident we can build three reactors
on the site.”
“This is great news for the North-
West, and particularly for West Cumbria,
the UK’s nuclear heartland. We are
delighted to be taking forward Moorside,
a massive development which will supply
some 7 per cent of the UK’s future
electricity.”
Site characterisation studies will
continue at Moorside in the autumn and
will feed in to detailed planning and site
layout work.
Contact: John McNamara, NuGen,
China
Construction of the second AP1000
unit at Sanmen in China’s Zhejiang
province reached a milestone with the
installation of the top of the containment
vessel.
In an operation lasting two hours, the
containment vessel top head - measuring
some 40 meters (131 feet) in diameter,
11.5 meters (37.7 feet) high and weighing
about 655 tonnes - was raised by crane
and lowered into place on top of the
fourth ring of the containment building.
The installation of the containment dome
marks the end of general construction
works of the unit’s nuclear island, State
Nuclear Power Technology Corporation
reported.
The containment vessel is a high
integrity, freestanding steel structure
with a wall thickness of almost 4.5 cm
(1.8 inches). The containment is 39.6
meters (130 feet) in diameter. The ring
sections and vessel heads are constructed
of steel plates pre-formed in an off-site
fabrication facility and shipped to the
site for assembly and installation using a
large-capacity crane.
Two AP1000s are under construction
at the Sanmen site, with another two
being built at Haiyang in Shandong
province. Sanmen unit 1, construction of
which began in April 2009, is expected
to be the first AP1000 to begin operating.
First concrete for Sanmen 2 was poured
in December 2009. All four Chinese
AP1000s are scheduled to be in operation
by 2016.
Source:
World Nuclear News
,
website:
