Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry.

Thursday, February 9, 2017

New Large Light Water Construction, USA and France


By Will Davis, Communications Director, historian, newsletter editor and board member for the N/S Savannah Association, Inc. – February 8
Recent news that Toshiba will, in all probability, end its venture into nuclear power plant design and construction has made sort of an upheaval in the pro-nuclear community. The Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear plant construction in the US is not going according to plan (and Westinghouse is owned by Toshiba) and further, purchase of the architect-engineer and construction functions of these domestic projects, formerly the business of CB&I / The Shaw Group, and originally Stone & Webster Engineering, has not led to the desired results either. Not new is the fact that in Europe, AREVA’s construction of two new large light water EPR plants in Finland and in France is also not going well. AREVA has collapsed, and a bailout is in progress; Toshiba is approaching that possibility. I think at this juncture it’s helpful to point out some broad similarities between the AP1000 projects in the USA and the EPR projects in Finland / France. First though I’d direct you to this piece I wrote for ANS Nuclear Cafe on nuclear plant construction, because it contains vital information to this discussion. Read on...http://www.theenergycollective.com/wdavis/2398003/new-large-light-water-construction-usa-and-france-2

No comments:

Post a Comment