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First Concrete Pour of Westinghouse's AP1000 Completed at China's Sanmen Nuclear Site

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From Westinghouse:
Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium partner The Shaw Group Inc., China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and Sanmen Nuclear Power Company of China National Nuclear Corporation today announced the successful completion, on schedule, of the first pour of basemat structural concrete for the nuclear island at Sanmen, the site of the first of four Westinghouse AP1000™ nuclear power plants to be built under a contract signed in 2007.
AP1000 Sanmen Nuclear Plant
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"Completion of concrete pour is a major milestone that visibly moves the Sanmen project from the design and discussion stage to the construction stage," he said. "More importantly, by getting this project underway on schedule, we are further helping to ensure that baseload electricity generation will begin at this plant as intended in 2013."

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The pour encompassed 5,200 cubic meters of concrete, 950 tons of reinforcing steel and 1000 anchor bolts. The concrete will serve as the foundation for all of the nuclear island buildings, including the containment vessel and the shield building.
Best of luck!
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theanphibian said…
Where did you get the pictures from? Can we get them with a free license?
April 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Anonymous said…
Westinghouse is clearly out in the lead now, ahead of Areva and GEH in showing what the best vendor practice should be. Great job!
April 20, 2009 at 10:26 PM
வெ.காளிà®®ுத்து said…
Todays energy demand can overtake by nuclear energy only, you can seen better picture from INDIA.
April 20, 2009 at 11:43 PM
David Bradish said…
Where did you get the pictures from?The first picture was from SNPTC's press release of the pour and the second one came from China's Xinhua News Agency.
April 21, 2009 at 6:19 AM
gunter said…
Granted you can pour a lot of concrete under a socialized energy policy.

Wonder how the QA/QC is in China?
April 22, 2009 at 3:46 PM
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