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Westinghouse Announces Successful Setting in AP1000 Reactor Project
The Cranberry Township-based corporation achieved the notable milestone on Friday.
Cranberry-based Westinghouse Electric Co. has announced the successful setting of its AP1000 containment vessel top head in China.
The placement of the containment vessel top head for the nuclear island of Unit 1 at the Haiyang site was completed on Friday, March 29, according to a news release.
The CVTH weighs approximately 659 tons and was manufactured by Shandong Nuclear Power Equipment Manufacturing Company Ltd. in China’s Shandong province.
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The setting is a significant step this year in Westinghouse’s delivery of China’s four AP1000 nuclear power plant units. Westinghouse and CB&I signed landmark contracts with Chinese customers in 2007 to provide four AP1000 pressurized water reactors in China: two in Sanmen in Zhejiang province, and another pair in Haiyang.
“We are pleased to mark this milestone with our partners, suppliers and customers, and to continue to work closely with them to bring the benefits of the AP1000 plant technology to the citizens of China,” Deva Chari, Westinghouse senior vice president for Nuclear Power Plant Project Delivery, said in a news release.
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