Chinese/US Development Partnership Breaks Ground Early on Second of Two
Facilities Deploying World's Most Advanced Nuclear Technology
HAIYANG, China, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Shandong Nuclear Power
Company with Westinghouse Electric Company LLC and its consortium partner
The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) broke ground today one month earlier than
scheduled on the Haiyang Nuclear Power Facility in Shandong Province, one
of the most highly advanced nuclear power plants being constructed in the
world.
The Haiyang facility will house two nuclear plants, each deploying
Westinghouse's AP1000(TM) technology, the safest, most advanced and proven
nuclear power plant currently available in the worldwide marketplace.
Excavation for the first of the two plants will take approximately three
months to create a hole 12 meters deep (39 feet) that will house the
nuclear reactor and turbine buildings. The volume of the excavation is
approximately 48,916 cubic meters or about 19.5 Olympic-size swimming
pools. When completed, a base for the plant nearly 175 meters wide (570
feet) by 250 meters long (840 feet) will exist.
The Westinghouse consortium is working in partnership with the State
Nuclear Power Technology Corporation Ltd. (SNTPC) to construct four nuclear
power facilities in China, all using AP1000 technology. Excavation on the
first of two other plants planned for development in Sanmen, in partnership
with the Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Ltd., also broke ground earlier this
year in February, more than a month ahead of schedule.
The SNTPC and Shandong Nuclear Power Company, the nuclear plant owner,
selected the AP1000 technology for its safety performance characteristics,
ease of operation, generating capacity, modular design and cost
effectiveness in both construction and operational phases. The AP1000 is
the only nuclear power plant technology being built in the world today with
fully automated operational/safety control functions and cooling systems,
in addition to featuring the most advanced instrumentation and control in
the industry. The technology also has one of the shortest construction
cycles in the industry, with the first of the Haiyang plants expected to
come on line in 2014.
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,
with Shaw, supplied the world's first PWR in 1957 in Shippingport, PA.
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. Westinghouse believes the AP1000 technology is ideally
suited for the new worldwide nuclear marketplace. In addition to the China
sites, the AP1000 has been selected as the technology of choice for no less
than 14 plants to be built in the United States over the next 10 to 12
years.
SOURCE Westinghouse Electric Company
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CONTACT:
Vaughn Gilbert, +1-412-374-3896,
gilberhv@westinghouse.com, or Scott Shaw, +1-412-374-6737,
shawsa@westinghouse.com, both of Westinghouse Electric Company
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