PITTSBURGH, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company has
formally submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) an
application to revise its AP1000 certified design.
Revision 16 of the AP1000 Design Control Document (DCD) includes
modifications to the design that will aid in reducing the cost, schedule
and risks for U.S. utilities that plan to apply for combined construction
and operating license (COL) applications with the NRC later this year.
Additionally, the revision will contribute to increased standardization of
the AP1000, making the NRC's review of AP1000 combined COL applications
more efficient.
"The revision includes design changes to the AP1000 requested by our
customers and developed by Westinghouse as part of design finalization,"
said Ed Cummins, vice president, Regulatory Affairs and Standardization,
Westinghouse Nuclear Power Plants. "We're happy to be working with our
customers through NuStart to bring the AP1000 to design finalization and,
ultimately, closer to new nuclear build."
Revision 16 of the AP1000 DCD also incorporates measures to enhance
security and aircraft crash resistance, and addresses approximately 40
percent of the 166 COL information items that were included in the AP1000
Design Certification issued by the NRC in December 2005. The remaining COL
information items, mostly related to site-specific issues, will be
addressed by utilities when submitting COL applications to the NRC.
For more information about the Westinghouse AP1000, visit
http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/AP1000/index.shtm. For AP1000 images,
visit http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/News_Room/image_gallery.shtm. To
download an AP1000 brochure, visit
http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/News_Room/publications_video.shtm.
Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation,
is the world's pioneering nuclear power company, supplying the world's
first commercial nuclear reactor at Shippingport, Pennsylvania, in 1957.
Since then, Westinghouse has become a leading supplier of nuclear plant
products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Today,
Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the
world's operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent of those in the
United States.
SOURCE Westinghouse Electric Company
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CONTACT:
Scott Shaw of Westinghouse Electric Company,
+1-412-374-6737, shawsa@westinghouse.com
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