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Light It Up: Vogtle Power Plant Illuminates Atlanta By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
Using one of the world’s largest cranes, construction teams near Waynesboro, Ga., are making steady progress on a $14 billion project that involves building two more nuclear units at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. The additions of Vogtle Units 3 and 4 will reportedly create roughly 5,000 onsite construction jobs and 800 permanent jobs, and will allow the Vogtle site to generate more electricity than any other U.S. nuclear energy facility. “We are building an advanced facility that is on the leading edge of technology and safety,” said Mark Williams, spokesman of Georgia Power. “These are among the first new nuclear units being built in the United States in the past 30 years. Once complete, they will provide enough clean, reliable, safe and affordable energy to power 500,000 Georgia homes and businesses.” Vogtle sits on a 3,200-acre site along the Savannah River, in Burke County about 30 mi. (48.3 km) southeast of Augusta, Ga. The plant has large turbines and generators, a computerized control room, a chemistry lab and is connected to the electric grid through high-voltage switchyards. Containment buildings featuring thick walls of concrete and steel, house two 355-ton (322 t) reactor vessels on giant concrete slabs. The concrete structures shield the environment see VOGTLE page 6
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The additions of Vogtle Units 3 and 4 will reportedly create roughly 5,000 onsite construction jobs and 800 permanent jobs, and will allow the Vogtle site to generate more electricity than any other U.S. nuclear energy facility.
Ga. Motorists Show Little Interest in $840M Toll Lanes ATLANTA (AP) Georgia motorists don’t seem to be paying much attention yet to what will be the largest highway construction project in state history. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the state is a few months away from signing a final contract for $840 million to add optional toll lanes to Interstates 75 and 575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties. The Georgia Department of Transportation Web site only received 10 public comments about the proposed bidders in July and less than 50 people attended two public information session. But officials said they expect the public to embrace the project once they learn more. Work on the reversible toll lanes is sup-
posed to start late next year and be finished by spring 2018. Lois Brett of Woodstock told the JournalConstitution she hadn’t heard about the 30 mi. (48 km) of toll lanes. “I probably wouldn’t use it unless there was a wreck and I had to because I had a screaming baby in the back seat,’’ she said while taking her two children to the library. Kennesaw State University students Jasmine Neville and Tia Mitchem said they couldn’t afford the toll lanes. “That’s my food money,’’ Neville said. The toll lanes are the state’s principal plan for alleviating congestion in the metro Atlanta area. Area voters last year rejected a penny sales tax to fund transportation proj-
ects, and officials say gas taxes aren’t enough alone to widen interstate highways without adding a toll. The area on I-75 just south of I-575 is one of the most congested in the region, carrying about 200,000 vehicles a day. When people talk about not using the future toll lanes, transportation officials point to the toll lane on I-85 from the Perimeter to Old Peachtree Road. Few people used the 16-mi. (25.7 km) stretch initially, but over time it became popular. The average cost for the trip is about $1.50, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. The new project will have two new reversible lanes hugging the west side of I75 between I-285 and I-575. A single
reversible lane also will be added in the I-75 center median north of the I-575 interchange extending to Hickory Grove Road, and on I575 from where it branches from I-75 out to Sixes Road. A barrier will separate the lanes from the main road. Cherokee County Commission Chairman Buzz Ahrens said the project will be an economic boon to the area and help alleviate traffic that has worsened with the opening of a 90-store outlet mall off I-575. “It’s all positive,’’ Ahrens said. “The only negative to it is that it’ll take a while to get done.’’ (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Vogtle 3, 4 Project Provides $2.2B In Value to Customers VOGTLE from page 1
from radiation, and the 548 ft. (167 m) twin cooling towers can be seen for miles. Roughly 900 people including engineers, mechanics and control room operators, lab technicians and security officers oversee the plant’s operations 24 hours a day. Full-time, onsite inspectors from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission monitor the plant to ensure it is maintained and operated safely, efficiently and in accordance with established nuclear operating procedures. As part of the expansion, Chicago Bridge and Iron (CB&I) had the massive task of fabricating the containment vessels and the cradles, as well as designing and building several other parts of the project. CB&I recently acquired the Shaw Group, which served as construction partner since the beginning of the project. The first nuclear concrete placement was completed in March 2013. The CR-10 module, known as the “cradle,” was placed in April 2013. The Unit 3 containment vessel bottom head assembly and turbine island lower foundation work is complete. Upper foundation work is progressing and on schedule. The Unit 3 cooling tower is currently more than 40 percent finished. Design engineering activities for the facility and procurement of major components are both nearly complete. Placing the first nuclear island concrete on Unit 3, to create the six-ft. (1.8 m) thick basemat was important. It serves as the foundation for the nuclear island, and includes the containment and auxiliary buildings. The placement of this basemat concrete is considered a crucial step, as it precedes the setting of key components inside the nuclear island. “This historic moment marks yet another important milestone of the Vogtle expansion project and reflects the tremendous progress we’ve made at the site,” said Buzz Miller, executive vice president of Georgia Power Nuclear Development. “We are very proud of this accomplishment, and of all the hard work and collaboration that went into making it happen.” The basemat covers 1,100 tons (99.8 t) of steel rebar and required 6,850 cu. yds. (6,263.6 cu m) of concrete to cover the area, 254 ft. (77.4 m) long and 161 ft. (49 m) across at its widest section. As a nuclear grade concrete, it was specially designed, mixed, reinforced and constructed according to strict procedures and a trained workforce with special certifications to perform the activity. Planning for the process was so strict that a mock site was constructed to simulate the concrete placement before it occurred. Once the basemat for Unit 3 was finished, the cradle that will hold the bottom head of
“The project is progressing extremely well, especially when compared to other large-scale infrastructure projects worldwide,” said Miller. “The Vogtle 3 and 4 project provides at least $2.2 billion more value to customers than the next best available technology, according to Georgia Public Service Commission staff.” Southern Nuclear, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is overseeing construction and will operate the two new 1,100mW AP1000 units for Georgia Power and co-owners Oglethorpe Power Corporation, the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia Georgia Power Company Photo and Dalton Utilities. Georgia Power owns Using one of the world’s largest cranes, construction teams near Waynesboro, Ga., 45.7 percent of the new units, with a certiare making steady progress on a $14 billion project that involves building two more fied cost of $6.1 billion. The company nuclear units at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. serves 2.4 million customers. Plant Vogtle houses two nuclear reactor the Unit 3 containment vessel was placed formed to ensure everything was where it inside the nuclear island. A 560 ft. (170.7 m) was supposed to be and the lift was per- units that began operation in the late 1980s. unit can generate 1,215 mW, for a long heavy lift derrick was used during the formed safely. In order to move a structure Each combined capacity of 2,430 mW. Power is process. The derrick has been used to move like that, it actually takes a rigging plan that’s generated using pressurized water reactors a number of large pieces at the site, with the above and beyond even the containment manufactured by Westinghouse, and the turcapacity to transfer the equivalent of five vessels. The weight had to be equalized to bines and electric generators were manufac747 jets across the distance of more than ensure there was no undo stress put on the tured by General Electric. The plant is one of three-and-a-half football fields in a single individual structural members as it was three in the Southern Company. lift. being lifted, swung and set.” Unit 3 is scheduled to go on line in 2017, The basemat concrete and Unit 4 will follow in 2018. placement was completed in Georgia Power actually filed approximately 41 hours. The an Application for placement at Vogtle Unit 3 Certification of Vogtle Units 3 encompassed approximately and 4 with the Georgia Public 7,000 cu. yds. (5,351.8 cu m) Service Commission back in of concrete, and will serve as 2008. The Georgia PSC the foundation for all of the granted approval to implement nuclear island structures, the proposed Vogtle expansion including the containment in 2009. In April, 2009, Vogtle vessel and the shield building. Units 3 and 4 were named the It covered an area approxiU.S. nuclear industry reference plant for the AP1000. As mately 250 ft. (76.2 m) long the reference plant, these units and 160 ft. (48.8 m) wide at will be the first in America its widest point, and the conlicensed to operate using crete measured six ft. (1.8 m) AP1000 technology. thick. Georgia Power Company Photo The construction of Vogtle 3 “I congratulate the hunand 4 is the largest job-producdreds of workers who sup- Crews assemble the Unit 3 cooling tower. ing project in Georgia. The ported the first concrete pour at Vogtle Unit 3 in Georgia, which sets the Permanent buildings and structures are project has not been without its share of constage for the installation of key modules in taking shape, with work progressing around troversy. At last report, construction spendthe unit’s nuclear island,” said Danny the cooling towers. The first X-braces have ing is more than $380 million over budget Roderick, president and CEO of been put in place at a rate of one per day, and additional overruns are possible. Westinghouse Electric Company. “This is an marking the erection of the first above- Federal lawsuits have been filed, and the important milestone for our customer, ground permanent structures. Other perma- Georgia Women’s Action for New Southern Nuclear, and Westinghouse is hon- nent buildings going up that will eventually Directions, an anti-nuclear group, has called ored that our AP1000 plant technology will be shared by all four Vogtle units are for for an end to the project. But construction enable Southern and its partners to meet the maintenance, security, operations offices and continues at the site, with no signs of slowdown. In fact, one third of the work has future energy needs of the citizens they support functions. These will make up this ing already been completed. serve.” inner area known as the “central campus.” “Our goal is to build the safest, most reliCR-10 was the first major module to be The new permanent buildings will eventual- able facility possible, one that will deliver set in place at the site and is the first installed ly replace the office complexes where clean and affordable energy for decades to heavy lift. Georgia Power, Westinghouse, Southern come,” said Williams. “The safety processes and planning used Nuclear, CB&I and other employees are cur(This story also can be found on to design the rigging have been going on for rently located. The modular assembly build- Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at months,” said David Keech of Georgia ing and other temporary structures will be www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) Power. “A lot of upfront work was per- removed once the project is complete. CEG
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