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Shippingport: A relevant decommissioning project

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OSTI ID:5122995
Because of Shippingport's low electrical power rating (72 MWe), there has been some misunderstanding on the relevancy of the Shippingport Station Decommissioning Project (SSDP) to a modern 1175 MWe commercial pressurized water reactor (PWR) power station. This paper provides a comparison of the major components of the reactor plant of the 72 MWe Shippingport Atomic Power Station and an 1175 MWe nuclear plant and the relevancy of the Shippingport decommissioning as a demonstration project for the nuclear industry. For the purpose of this comparison, Portland General Electric Company's 1175 MWe Trojan Nuclear Plant at Rainier, Oregon, has been used as the reference nuclear power plant. 2 refs., 2 figs., 1 tab.
Research Organization:
USDOE Shippingport Station Decommissioning Project Office, PA
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-84RL10421; AC06-76RL01857
OSTI ID:
5122995
Report Number(s):
DOE/SSDP-0037; CONF-880601-25; ON: DE88007298
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English