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I normally avoid nuclear power plants because it is so depressing that American could never get their act together for the CO2-free baseline power alternative. But I want to capture the control panel photos below.
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"Georgia Power began planning Plant Vogtle in 1971. Unit 1 began commercial operation in 1987, and Unit 2 began commercial operation in 1989."
This 2010 brochure claims the plant has a computerized control room. So it must have been upgraded from the original shown below.
"Pressurized water reactors, such as the two at Plant Vogtle, use three separate water systems. To begin, water is pumped under high pressure through the reactor core where the nuclear chain reaction heats the water to a temperature of about 620 degrees Fahrenheit. Because the water in the reactor is kept under high pressure, it does not boil into steam. This hot water travels from the reactor to the four steam generators – all located inside the protective containment structure – before it is pumped back into the reactor." |
Bob Ciminel
posted four photos with the comment: "In the early Eighties, I worked on the design of the Vogtle Unit 1 control room at the Bechtel facility in Los Angeles. All of the controls could be repositioned and we were pointing out where various controls were located versus where the indications for the system were located. I am on the right and had a lot more hair then."
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Bob's post
It was hard finding info on this plant because the Google search results are dominated by the cost overruns for Units 3 & 4 exceeding $30 billion. |
It doesn't sound like Westinghouse AP1000 Generation III+ reactors are the solution to nuclear power. The fact that it should create 800 permanent jobs is part of the problem. Why does it take hundreds of people to run a nuclear power plant? I have noticed that ComEd's nuclear plants are around 400 jobs whereas a coal fired plant can be run with 60. And just 30 if converted to gas.
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