Westinghouse chosen to dismantle Chooz A nuclear PWR in France

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Westinghouse chosen to dismantle Chooz A nuclear PWR in France

27 April 2010 - A Westinghouse-led consortium has been awarded a contract to dismantle the reactor vessel of Chooz A, the first pressurized water reactor (PWR) to be decommissioned in France.

The contract, awarded by Electricité de France (EDF) decommissioning arm EDF-CIDEN to a consortium led by Westinghouse, is expected to take six and a half years to complete. Westinghouse is partnered in the consortium by Nuvia France, and will also provide resources from its Swedish, Belgian and French locations.

Westinghouse will undertake overall project management, segmentation of the reactor vessel itself and of reactor vessel internals, reactor nozzle cutting, dismantling of the reactor vessel's thermal insulation, while using ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principles to ensure acceptable radiation doses to personnel and providing a complementary water filtration system to maintain water clarity during the segmentation work.

Chooz A was a prototype PWR and supplied electricity to the French grid from 1967 to 1991.

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1. I hope they do a good job. It can be done properly.

For those who are interested

http://www.connyankee.com/

Website showing the process to dismantle Conneticut Yankee reactor.

Before and After:


Some after shots:



Spent Fuel Storage Yard
waiting for DOE to do something with the $20 billion they have been given and open at least open some interim-length (50-100 years) storage facilities.


I wish I could collect $20 billion over 2 decades and do absolutely nothing with the money and somehow avoid going to jail on fraud charges.