SANMEN, China, Oct. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse
Electric Company and its customers, China State Nuclear Power
Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and CNNC Sanmen Nuclear Power
Company Limited (SMNPC) announced today that the world's first
AP1000 plant located in Sanmen, Zhejiang
Province, China, is fully
operational.
"Many years have been dedicated to successfully bringing the
first AP1000 unit to life," said José Emeterio Gutiérrez,
Westinghouse president and chief executive officer. He added, "Our
Westinghouse design and technology is now live and generating safe,
clean energy."
The AP1000 plant, a Generation III+ two-loop pressurized water
reactor (PWR), is considered the most advanced commercially
available plant, offering an industry-leading design. The AP1000
plant features a passive safety design, harnessing the laws of
nature including gravity and convection to support safe and
efficient plant performance. The AP1000 plant is designed to safely
and automatically shut down without operator action for up to 72
hours in the event of a design-basis incident. Additionally, Sanmen
1 and the AP1000 fleet effectively incorporate Westinghouse's
leading digital instrumentation and controls that enhance the
reliability of plant control and safety systems through an
integrated, plant-wide approach.
The global AP1000 fleet is comprised of Sanmen 1 as well as five
additional nuclear power plants progressing through construction,
testing and start-up. The projects progressing through testing and
start-up include a second unit in Sanmen, Zhejiang Province, and two units in Haiyang,
Shandong Province, all in
China. Additionally, there are two units currently under
construction at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near
Waynesboro, Georgia, USA.
Westinghouse is providing the design, critical equipment, training
and testing for each of the units.
Contact: Sarah
Cassella
Manager, External Communications
Westinghouse Electric Company
Telephone: +1 412-374- 4744
Email: cassels@westinghouse.com
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