UK Horizon Nuclear Power Names Joint Venture for Wylfa

UK Horizon Nuclear Power Names Joint Venture for Wylfa

source world-nuclear-news.org

Posted on May 28, 2016 by djysrv

Japan’s Hitachi and the U.S. construction giant Bechtel, will build 5,400 MW of new nuclear power generating capacity at two sites. The first unit at Wylfa is expected to be in revenue service by the mid-2020s.

In a burst of optimism surpassing the current troubles afflicting the UK’s Hinkley Point nuclear project, the UK’s Horizon Nuclear Power has announced its team that will build 1350 MW ABWRs at Wylfa Newydd, on the Isle of Anglesey and at Oldbury-on-Severn in South Gloucestershire.

The agreement brings together the capabilities of three industry leaders. Bechtel has delivered megaprojects in the UK including the Channel Tunnel, High Speed 1, and Crossrail and has performed services on more than 150 nuclear power plants worldwide.

Hitachi-GE will provide the Generation III+ Advanced Boiling Water Reactors to be used at the plant. Japan Gas Corp., the third partner, has engineered and built refineries and power plants since 1928.

Bechtel added in its press statement that it took TVA’s Watts Bar II to completion. That reactor achieved its first criticality this week.

Craig Albert, president of Bechtel’s nuclear business unit said. “The technology is proven and reliable, the UK has a supply chain that’s ready to grow, and the plant will help the UK meet its energy demand and carbon reduction targets.”

Horizon Nuclear Power’s Wylfa Newydd plant will provide low-carbon nuclear energy to up to 5 million homes. Construction will create 8,000 to 10,000 jobs at peak periods and the plant will support 850 permanent jobs on the Isle of Anglesey, adjacent to the site of two older UK reactors scheduled for decommissioning.

Duncan Hawthorne, Horizon CEO, said that the UK ABWR is on schedule to complete the Generic Design Assessment by the end of 2017.

The joint venture will be called Menter Newydd, which means “new venture” in Welsh. It will initially provide front-end engineering and construction planning prior to full construction, expected to begin by 2020.

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