{"id":11610,"date":"2011-03-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/japan-crisis-impacts-us-project\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T09:00:00","slug":"japan-crisis-impacts-us-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/japan-crisis-impacts-us-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan crisis impacts US project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Development of units 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0at the South Texas Project (STP) has been slowed in response to regulatory uncertainty following recent events at Japan\u2019s Fukushima Daiichi plant, nuclear development company Nuclear Innovation North America (Nina) announced.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Nina\u00a0\u2014 jointly owned by NRG Energy and Toshiba\u00a0\u2014 said that it is reducing the scope of development of STP units 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0\u201cto allow time for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and other nuclear stakeholders to assess the lessons that can be learned from the events in Japan.\u201d It added that, for the time being, work related to development of the two new units will be limited to licensing and securing a federal loan guarantee for the project.<\/p>\n

David Crane, chairman of Nina and CEO of NRG, said: \u201cOur best course of action in this immediate period of uncertainty is to minimize project spend, continue with those activities we can control and wait until there is more information upon which we can base our long-term decisions.\u201d He added, \u201cThis is the financially disciplined course of action in uncertain and challenging times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crane said that a repeat of events at Fukushima Daiichi\u00a0\u2014 which saw some reactors left without heat removal systems or backup power by the tsunami that followed an earthquake on 11\u00a0March\u00a0\u2014 is unlikely to happen at the existing and planned units at STP. He said, \u201cSince STP is very differently situated from the stricken nuclear plant in Japan\u00a0\u2014 ten miles from the Gulf of Mexico, in a non-seismic area with hardened watertight protection around both its backup generation and its spent fuel storage facilities\u00a0\u2014 it is not obvious to us that any modifications are necessary to regulatory requirements applicable to either our existing or planned nuclear facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he added, \u201cAs we unreservedly support our government\u2019s proposed nuclear safety review, the prudent thing for us to do is to await the outcome of that review before committing more of our own or our partners\u2019 capital.\u201d<\/p>\n

NRG said that it remains committed to the timeframe previously established for making key decisions on its continuing involvement in the development of the planned news Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWRs) at STP.<\/p>\n

Toshiba received a 12% stake in Nina, in return for a $300\u00a0million investment over six years. Half of this investment is to support the proposed new ABWRs at STP through Nina Investments Holdings. The other half is for new ABWR projects in North America with other potential partners. Nina holds a 92.4% stake in the project to build STP Units 3\u00a0and 4, with the remaining 7.6% held by CPS Energy (which owns 40% of the existing STP units). The project had originally been a 50\u201350\u00a0venture between Nina and CPS, but CPS decided to withdraw from the project altogether. However, in February 2010\u00a0an agreement was reached under which CPS would retain a small stake.<\/p>\n

In May 2010, Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco)\u00a0\u2014 owner of the Fukushima Daiichi plant\u00a0\u2014 agreed to invest $155\u00a0million for a 9% stake in the project to construct the new STP units, with an option to later increase this stake to some 18% for an additional $125\u00a0million within about one year. Tepco has been providing technical consulting services to the project since March 2007. The extent of the company\u2019s future involvement in the STP project remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

CPS ends talks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday, CPS announced that it was indefinitely suspending all discussions with NRG regarding a purchase power agreement for electricity from the planned new STP units.<\/p>\n

CPS president and CEO Doyle Beneby said, \u201cAs we have indicated for months now, we are currently pursuing an array of other clean affordable supply options. Terminating discussions with NRG allows us to devote more resources in pursuit of the other options.\u201d However, he added, \u201cWhen the development of STP 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0moves forward again, our present ownership interest will remain unchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n

CPS said that it is not ruling out future discussions with NRG, but \u201cif and when those discussions reconvene, the two parties would start anew.\u201d<\/p>\n

The South Texas Project currently consists of two pressurized water reactors (PWRs), which together produce some 2700\u00a0MWe. The reactors were brought online in August 1988\u00a0and June 1989. The facility is operated by STPNOC and owned by NRG Texas (44%), CPS Energy (40%) and Austin Energy (16%).<\/p>\n

Although the COL for STP is not anticipated until 2012, an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the project has been awarded to a consortium of Toshiba\u2019s US subsidiary Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Shaw Group, and an order for one of the reactor pressure vessels has already been placed with Japanese engineering company IHI. Construction of the two new ABWRs at STP is expected to begin in 2012, with the first 1358\u00a0MWe unit coming online in 2016\u00a0and the second in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Development of units 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0at the South Texas Project (STP) has been slowed in response to regulatory uncertainty following recent events at Japan\u2019s Fukushima Daiichi plant, nuclear development company Nuclear Innovation North America (Nina) announced. 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