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| wlrun3@aol.com:
The Hope Creek (1986 1100 MW BWR 4 Mark 1 Ctmt) reactor containment building looks like a PWR containment. Why? Is it unique? |
| tr:
Depends on how you mean "unique". The BWR 6 Mark III containments also look like PWR containments. |
| RDTroja:
Big Rock Point (don't know the model but it was AEC license #3, I think) had a spherical containment and it was a BWR (well, sort of... the boiling took place in a steam drum.) Clinton has a containment dome and is a boiler. So unique? No. Different, yes. When Hope Creek was being built it, like many other single unit plants, was going to be two units. When they cancelled unit 2, they upgraded unit 1 to the next larger model reactor BUT THE DRYWELL WAS ALREADY BUILT! So they crammed a reactor and supporting systems into a drywell that was not designed to hold it. That is why there is no space inside. There are literally places a normal sized human being cannot get to in there. Very strange. I did their first refueling outage and never went back. But I don't remembr it looking like a PWR from the outside. |
| Already Gone:
The Rx Bldgs at Hope Creek have two parts - actually only unit 1 has both parts. The square Rx bldg is outside a round building which extends above the roof of the square one. It does resemble a PWR from outside. The refuel floor even has a polar crane. |
| RDTroja:
The memory is the second thing to go and I can't remember what was first. Then again, the vast majority of the time I was at Salem, Hope Creek was just a drawing, not even a hole in the ground yet. I spent most of the outage at Hope Creek issuing instruments, keys, and respirators and covering waste solidification... long funny story. |
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