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The AP1000 is a proposed passively safe pressurized water reactor designed and manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Company for nuclear power plants. This is considered a Generation III+ design. Each reactor is designed to generate over 1000-megawatts-electric (1117 to 1154 per Westinghouse). Passively safe is a form of nuclear reactor which uses the laws of physics to keep the nuclear reaction under control rather than engineered safety systems. ...
A pressurised water reactor (PWR) is a type of nuclear power reactor that uses ordinary light water for both coolant and for neutron moderation. ...
The Westinghouse Electric Company is a nuclear reactor technology company. ...
A nuclear power station. ...
A generation III reactor is a development of any of the generation II reactor designs incorporating evolutionary improvements in design which have been developed during the lifetime of the generation II designs, such as improved fuel technology, passive safety systems and standardised design. ...
(A smaller design, the AP600, was first evaluated. The AP1000 builds on the research for that plant.)
In January 2006, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the final design certification for the AP1000. This means two things: (1) prospective builders can apply for a combined Construction and Operating License (COL) before construction starts, whose validity is conditional upon the plant being built as designed, and (2) each AP1000 will be virtually identical. NRC headquarters in Bethesda, MD. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (or NRC) is a United States government agency that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act in 1974, and was first opened January 19, 1975. ...
Probabilistic risk assessment was used in the design of the plants. This enabled minimization of risks, and calculation of the overall safety of the plant. (The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing a new safety study - these plants will be orders of magnitude safer than the last, overly pessimistic study, NUREG-1150.) Risk is the potential harm that may arise from some present process or from some future event. ...
NUREG-1150 (Severe Accident Risks: An Assessment for Five U.S. Nuclear Power Plants, 1991, by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC]) is an improvement on WASH-1400 and CRAC-II using the results of plant-specific Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs). ...
The AP1000 will be manufactured in modules designed for rail or barge shipment. This will allow constructing many modules in parallel, and the plant is designed to have fuel load 36 months after concrete is first poured.
Two AP1000s are slated for Cherokee County, South Carolina, and one or two for the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station in Alabama. Cherokee County is a county located in the state of South Carolina. ...
The Tennessee Valley Authoritys unfinished Bellefonte nuclear power plant is located in Hollywood, Alabama, abandoned in 1988 after a $6 billion investment. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area Ranked 30th - Total 52,423 sq mi (135,775 km²) - Width 190 miles (306 km) - Length 330 miles (531 km) - % water 3. ...
See also A nuclear power station. ...
The Nuclear Power 2010 Program was unveiled by the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Energy on February 14, 2002 as one means towards addressing the expected need for new power plants. ...
The Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) is a generation III+ reactor which builds on the success of the ABWR. Both are designs by General Electric, and are based on their BWR design. ...
European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) is a new fission nuclear reactor design, based on the pressurized water reactor or PWR. It has been designed and developed mainly by the Commissariat à lÉnergie Atomique in France and the Karlsruhe Research Center in Germany. ...
External links - AP1000 Home Page
- Nuclear Energy Institute's summary of the AP1000 - see the cutaway diagram
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