Westinghouse, along with its consortium partner CB&I and China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corp, have announced the successful erection of the shield building conical roofs on the first units of the AP1000 plants under construction in Sanmen and Haiyang, China.
The lift and set of the roofing was completed on December15 by a specially set up group of experts from the consortium members. The total lift with rigging of each roof was more than 800 tons and took less than two hours at each site. The roof settings are an important step in Westinghouse’s delivery of China’s four AP1000 nuclear power plant units, following the successful placement earlier this year of the containment vessel top heads there.
Westinghouse and CB&I signed landmark contracts with customers in China
in 2007 to provide four AP1000 pressurised water reactors
in China: two in Sanmen in Zhejiang province, and another two in Haiyang in Shandong province.
