{"id":11663,"date":"2012-02-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/approval-for-first-nuclear-new-build-in-america\/"},"modified":"2012-02-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T09:00:00","slug":"approval-for-first-nuclear-new-build-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/approval-for-first-nuclear-new-build-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval for first nuclear new build in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>American safety regulators gave the go-ahead today for the construction of two new nuclear power reactors. <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The vote by the five-member commission brought to an end a regulatory process lasting almost four years that confirmed the safety of building two Westinghouse AP1000\u00a0reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia. It is the first combined construction and operating licence issued by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).<\/p>\n<p>The review work of the NRC staff was celebrated by the commissioners in a confirmatory hearing today. Four commissioners voted to grant the licence, while chairman Gregory Jazcko abstained. He had wanted the licence issued on condition that Southern Company implement NRC recommendations developed in response to the Fukushima accident in Japan last year and said he \u201ccould not support issuing this licence as if Fukushima had not happened.\u201d The other commisisoners spoke to respectfully disagree with Jazcko. Kristine Svinicki said: \u201cThere is no amnesia individually or collectively regarding the events of 11\u00a0March 2011\u00a0and the ensuing accident at Fukushima.\u201d She added that NRC staff did not recommend and did not support Jazcko\u2019s idea of a condition being attached to the licence, \u201cbecause we found it would not improve our systematic regulatory approach to Fukushima, nor would it make any difference to the safety of operating or planned reactors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plant owner Southern applied to the NRC to build Vogtle units 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0in April 2008, and signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Westinghouse and its partner Shaw one week later. After a year the company had approval to begin limited construction work. The companies have now cleared and excavated the site, prepared for the concrete foundations of the reactor buildings, laid cooling water piping and put in place the foundations for the huge derrick crane for the simultaneous construction of two reactors.<\/p>\n<p>The AP1000\u00a0is a modular design and assembly facilities at Vogtle have already made the containment vessel bottom head as well as the first containment vessel ring. They have also started on the biggest module of all, the 840\u00a0tonne CA-20, which creates spaces for used fuel storage, transmission, heat exchange and waste collection within the reactor building. \u2019Major equipment\u2019 such as steam generators and reactor vessels were ordered from Doosan of South Korea in June 2008\u00a0and work has started on the turbine island and cooling towers. A simulator for operator training was installed in November last year.<\/p>\n<p>Once Southern is in possession of the actual licence itself\u00a0\u2014 likely within ten working days\u00a0\u2014 it will be allowed to begin the pouring of concrete for structures related to nuclear safety and the reactors can be said to be officially under construction. The 1107\u00a0MWe pressurized water reactors are slated for start-up in 2016\u00a0and 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American safety regulators gave the go-ahead today for the construction of two new nuclear power reactors. The vote by the five-member commission brought to an end a regulatory process lasting almost four years that confirmed the safety of building two Westinghouse AP1000\u00a0reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia. 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