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22 november 2013
Safety-related concrete has been poured for the basemat of the second AP1000 unit at the Vogtle plant in Georgia. The milestone means that four AP1000s are now officially under construction in the USA.The basemat provides a foundation for the containment and auxiliary buildings that are within the unit’s nuclear island. Measuring 1.8 metres thick, ...
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12 november 2013
Mitsubishi will slow down work to obtain design certification of the Advanced Pressurized Water Reactors (APWR) in the USA. In response, Luminant has suspended its application to build two such units at the Comanche Peak plant in Texas.Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems (MNES) — the US subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) — said that it ...
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