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NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, March-April 2016
New Energy
Vogtle
Georgia Power
filed its 14th
Vogtle Construction Monitoring (VCM)
Report with the Georgia Public Service
Commission (PSC). The report highlights
progress made at the site through the end
of 2015, including $160 million invested
by Georgia Power in the second half of
2015. The Georgia PSC has unanimously
approved all costs submitted through the
VCM process to date.
The Vogtle expansion is the largest
construction project in Georgia with
more than 5,000 workers onsite in 2015
and 800 permanent future jobs. When
the new units join the existing two units
already in operation, Plant Vogtle is
expected to generate more electricity than
any other U.S. nuclear facility, enough to
power more than one million homes and
businesses.
Recent progress at the expansion
highlighted in the report includes:
• The installation of the first shield
building panels for Unit 3, placement
of 2,400 cubic yards of concrete for
the “turbine tabletop” for Unit 3
and the placement of the 950-ton
containment vessel lower ring for
Unit 4.
• Delivery of major equipment
and components to the site from
throughout the United States and
around the world including two
steam generators from South Korea
and the Unit 4 Core Makeup Tank
from Italy.
• Positive inspection results from the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) demonstrating that the units
are being completed safely and in
compliance with regulations, as
well as approval of various License
Amendment
Requests
(LARs)
needed to support construction.
• Continued activities to integrate the
new units with the existing plant and
prepare new employees to bring the
units online to serve customers.
To learn more about the progress at
the Vogtle nuclear expansion site, and
read the full 14th VCM Report, visit
.
Contact: Georgia Power Media
Relations, telephone: (800) 282-1696.
Sanmen
Westinghouse Electric Company
LLC
announced that all four reactor
coolant pumps (RCPs) at Sanmen Unit 1
have been installed ahead of the current
milestone schedule. Sanmen 1 is one of
two AP1000
®
nuclear power plants under
construction at the Sanmen Nuclear
Power Plant in Zhejiang Province, China.
The Sanmen site teams successfully
installed two separate sets of Reactor
Coolant Pump System (RCPS) ahead of
the current milestone schedule. The first
two were installed in late January 2016.
The second set of RCPs arrived at Sanmen
on February 8, 2016. The team applied
the experiences and lessons learned
during the installation of the first set of
RCPs, installing the second set on March
1, 2016, 10 days ahead of schedule.
“This is a keymilestone that moves us
a step closer to bringing the world’s very
firstAP1000 nuclear power plants online,”
said Jeff Benjamin, Westinghouse senior
vice president, New Plants and Major
Projects. “The valuable experiences the
teams gained from these installations
will benefit future RCP installations at
AP1000 plants under construction around
the world, driving process improvements
and delivery certainty for our customers
globally.”
The RCPs are part of the reactor
coolant system that maintains reactor
core cooling and are components of the
AP1000 plant’s innovative passive safety
system design. The pumps installed
at Sanmen 1 were manufactured in
Cheswick, Pa., in the United States, and
traveled 11,344 nautical miles, or 20,646
kilometers, to reach the Sanmen site.
The Westinghouse global supply chain
successfully ensured that items across the
products lines are able to be utilized in
AP1000 projects.
In addition to the two AP1000 units
under construction at Sanmen, two units
are under construction at Haiyang in
Shandong Province, China, as well as
four in the United States, two at theVogtle
plant in Waynesboro, Ga., and two at the
V.C. Summer plant in Jenkinsville, S.C.
Contact: Westinghouse Public and Media
Relations, telephone: (412) 374-2707, email:
South Africa
South African utility Eskom has
submitted site applications for nuclear
installations at Thyspunt in the Eastern
