- Confirms the AP1000 can be Successfully Deployed in Europe
NICE, France, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The European Utility
Requirements (EUR) organization certified that the AP1000 pressurized water
reactor has successfully passed all the steps of analysis for compliance
with European Utility Requirements, confirming that the AP1000 can be
successfully deployed in Europe.
Results of the assessment, with more than 5,000 requirements being
assessed, revealed that the AP1000 achieved a very high level of compliance
- 99 percent. The European Passive Plant (EPP) group, initially formed by
Westinghouse and led by European utilities and suppliers, is implementing a
program to address the 1 percent of AP1000 non-compliances. This non-
compliance is primarily in the areas of aircraft crash protection, 12- to
24-month operating flexibility, and minor features in the plant layout. The
program is expected to be completed in the next 18 months.
In addition to being only 1 percent non-compliant, 8 percent of the
requirements were identified as not accessible at this time. Not-accessible
items include waste; decommissioning; other areas where site- and
utility-specific input is required; and the evaluation of the design for
extreme soil conditions.
"We want to commend the EUR Committee for the level of effort that went
into this compliance effort," said Dan Lipman, senior vice president of
Westinghouse Nuclear Power Plants. "The EUR compliance certificate in
conjunction with design licenses in China and the U.S. show the
standardized AP1000 design can meet international regulatory requirements
and is ready for worldwide deployment."
The EUR effort was launched in December 1991 by several European
utilities. The main objective of the EUR organization was to produce a
common set of utility requirements endorsed by major European utilities for
the next generation of light water reactor nuclear power plants.
In 1997, the EUR organization jointly developed a document that would
become "Volume 3" of the EUR. Volume 3 is intended to report, for each
specific nuclear plant design considered by the EUR, the plant description,
the compliance assessment to EUR Volumes 1 and 2, and the specific
requirements. In January 2004, the EUR organization initiated a program to
prepare an EUR Volume 3 Subset for the Westinghouse AP1000.
The assessment of the AP1000 design against the EUR was extremely
thorough. The very high level of detail provided in the AP1000
documentation enabled the EUR Coordination Group to perform a deep
investigation of the AP1000 design.
Westinghouse, a group company of Toshiba Corporation, is the world's
pioneering nuclear power company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant
products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Westinghouse
technology today is the basis for approximately one-half of the world's
operating nuclear plants.
SOURCE Westinghouse Electric Company
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Bernd Doehnert, +32 67 28 8438,
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