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NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, July-August 2016
New Energy
UK New Build
Bechtel
, the global engineering
and construction firm, announced it has
been selected, with joint venture partners
Hitachi Nuclear Energy Europe, Ltd.
and Japan Gas Corporation, to deliver a
new, two-reactor nuclear plant in Wales,
United Kingdom for plant owner, Horizon
Nuclear Power.
The agreement brings together the
capabilities of three industry leaders.
Bechtel has delivered megaprojects in
the UK including the Channel Tunnel,
High Speed 1, and Crossrail for more
than 60 years and has performed services
on more than 150 nuclear power plants
worldwide. Hitachi-GE will provide the
Generation III+ Advanced Boiling Water
Reactors to be used at the plant. Japan
Gas Corporation has engineered and built
refineries and power plants since 1928.
The joint venture will be called
Menter Newydd, which means “new
venture” in Welsh. It will initially
provide front-end engineering and
construction planning prior to full
construction, expected by 2020. Horizon
Nuclear Power’s Wylfa Newydd plant
will provide low-carbon nuclear energy
to up to 5 million homes. Construction
will create 8,000 to 10,000 jobs at
peak periods and the plant will employ
around 850 permanent employees on
the Isle of Anglesey, adjacent to the site
of two older UK reactors scheduled for
decommissioning.
Contact: Fred deSousa, Bechtel,
telephone: (703) 429-6435, email:
Vogtle Unit
Georgia Power
announced the latest
milestone in the construction of Vogtle
3 & 4 near Waynesboro, Georgia – the
delivery of the final reactor coolant pump
for Unit 3. The pump, weighing 187.5
tons, or 375,000 pounds, is the last of
the four pumps to arrive for Unit 3 at
the site via truck from Curtiss-Wright
Corporation in Cheswick, Pennsylvania.
Reactor coolant pumps are a critical
component of the AP1000 design as they
circulate hot primary-circuit water within
the reactor.
In addition to the arrival of the reactor
coolant pumps, construction progress
continues across the site including the
setting of modules CA03 and CA02
inside the Unit 3 nuclear island, which
completes the placement of the “Big
Six” modules for Unit 3, and the vertical
completion of the Unit 4 cooling tower to
a final height of 601 feet.
The CA05 module for Unit 4 was
also placed safely. The module, which is
nearly 27-feet high and weighs 90-tons
or 180,000 pounds, is housed within the
Unit 4 containment building. The CA05
module is comprised of eight reinforced
steel plates which are welded together
and will be filled with concrete to provide
structural support for the containment
building. In addition to providing
structural support, the protective walls of
CA05 will also separate various rooms in
the containment.
Contact: John O’Brien, Georgia
Shin Kori, South Korea
South Korea’s nuclear regulator has
approved the construction of units 5 and
6 of the Shin Kori nuclear power plant.
The APR1400 units are scheduled to
begin operating in March 2021 and 2022,
respectively.
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power
(KHNP) applied in September 2012
for a construction permit for two more
APR1400 reactors at the site in south-
eastern Korea.
In January 2014, an announcement
from the Ministry of Industry confirmed
the government’s go-ahead for a plan to
build the two new Shin Kori units.
The regulator, the Nuclear Safety
and Security Commission, has voted
to approve KHNP’s application for a
construction permit for the units.
A consortium comprising of South
Korean construction companies Samsung
C&T, Doosan and Hanhwa Construction
was awarded a KRW 1.18 trillion ($1
billion) contract in June 2015 to build
Shin Kori 5 and 6.
Construction of Shin Kori 5 is
scheduled to begin September, 2016, with
that of unit 6 set to start one year later.
The Shin Kori site currently hosts
two OPR-1000 reactors (units 1 and 2),
which began operating in 2011 and 2012,
respectively. Two APR1400 have already
been built at the site (units 3 and 4). Shin
Kori 3 had originally been due to begin
operating at the end of 2013, with unit 4
following in September 2014. However,
their operation was delayed by the need
to test the cabling. Unit 3 achieved
first criticality last December and was
connected to the grid in January 2016.
Unit 4 is expected to start operating in
early 2017.
Source:
World Nuclear News
,
website:
Tianwan III, China
A contract has been signed for the
civil construction of the nuclear islands
of Phase III of the Tianwan nuclear power
plant in Jiangsu province. Construction
of unit 5 has already begun, while that of
unit 6 is scheduled to start in 2017.
The contract was signed by China
Nuclear Power Engineering general
manager Liu Wei and China Nuclear
Industry Huaxing Construction general
manager Chen Baozhi at a ceremony
held on June 17, 2016 in Nanjing.
China Nuclear Power Engineering is
a subidiary of China National Nuclear
Corporation (CNNC) and China Nuclear
Industry Huaxing Construction is part of
China Nuclear Engineering Corporation
(CNEC).
The latest Five-Year Plan calls
for construction of Phase III of the
Tianwan plant in Jiangsu province to be
accelerated. The State Council gave its
approval for Tianwan units 5 and 6 - both
featuring 1080 MWe ACPR1000 reactors
- on December 16, 2015. First safety-
related concrete was poured for unit 5 on
December 27, 2015. Unit 5 is expected to
enter commercial operation in December
2020 and unit 6 in October 2021.
Source:
World Nuclear News
, website:
