17 Aug (NucNet): US-based Fluor Corporation has been awarded a contract by Toshiba for engineering, procurement and construction-related services for two new nuclear reactors planned for the South Texas Project (STP) nuclear power plant in Texas.
The new advanced boiling water reactor units (ABWRs), South Texas Project-3 and -4, will total approximately 2,700 megawatts and are scheduled to become operational in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
In June 2006 STP’s 44-percent owner, NRG Energy, filed its letter of intent to submit an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a combined construction and operating licence (COL) for units 3 and 4. Construction of unit 3 is expected to start at the end of 2010. The two new units will be built next to South Texas Project-1 and -2 in Bay City, Texas.
NRG recently announced it had contracted Toshiba to provide key reactor components as well as early engineering, procurement and construction-related services for the planned units.
Fluor will support Toshiba in the first developmental phase of the project by providing project planning, estimating, engineering, procurement and construction-related services. The second phase – design, procurement and construction planning – is expected to begin in late 2007 and will conclude when the NRC issues the COL, currently expected in late 2010. Construction is intended to begin as soon as the COL is issued.
>>Related reports in the NucNet database (available to subscribers)
Tepco To Help NRG With New South Texas Units (News No. 107, 30 April 2007)
Toshiba To Help With Two New South Texas Project Units (World Nuclear Review No. 32, 10 August 2007)
