The Nuclear Power Thread

Astronuc

Prometheus Project Reactor Module Final Report, for Naval Reactors Information
http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/...aFN/884680.pdf (64 MB)

1771 References in Bibliography

It's reasonably comprehensive on the state of the art, and relevant to many topics in the forum. It's a good supplement to the Gen-IV literature.

Astronuc

Vogtle 3 and 4 and V C Summer 2 and 3 (both twin AP1000 sites) are under construction.

Vogtle has been doing ground work for sometime.

On March 9, pouring of the basemat for Unit 2 commenced. It lasted about 50 hours as a continuous pour.

The basemat provides a foundation for the containment and auxilary buildings that are within the unit's nuclear island. Measuring 1.8 metres thick, the basemat required some 5350 cubic metres of concrete to cover an area about 76 metres by 49 metres. The concrete-pouring process took just over 50 hours and was completed at about 10.00am on 11 March.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN...r-1203134.html

Update: March 13, 2013

Southern Nuclear began pouring the basemat at Vogtle 3, a day after SCANA/SCE&G began the pour at Summer 2. It takes about 50 hours to pour the basemat.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/me...tor-foundation

Southern Nuclear has begun pouring of specially designed basemat concrete for the foundation of its Unit 3 Plant Vogtle reactor, just three days after similar steps were completed at SCANA’s V.C. Summer plant in South Carolina.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/me...nt-vogtle-site

(Jan 24) The reactor vessel head, weighing 160 tons, serves as the “lid” of the Unit 3 reactor and will be bolted to the even-larger reactor vessel body – a 300-ton component that remains in Savannah, Ga., awaiting shipment to the site aboard a specially built rail car.

Astronuc

Japan signs deal with Turkey to build nuclear plant
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/04/world/...?iref=obinsite

(CNN) -- Turkey and Japan have agreed to a $22 billion deal to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey, the semi-official Turkish news agency Anadolu reported.
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http://www.atmea-sas.com/scripts/ATM....asp?P=57&L=EN

Large LWRs of Gen 3 generation are on the order of 1.1 to 1.2 GWe. ATMEA is roughly the same capacity as Westinghouse's AP-1000.

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Astronuc Admin	The Nuclear Power Thread Prometheus Project Reactor Module Final Report, for Naval Reactors Information http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/...aFN/884680.pdf (64 MB) 1771 References in Bibliography It's reasonably comprehensive on the state of the art, and relevant to many topics in the forum. It's a good supplement to the Gen-IV literature.