Beznau is a 730MW two-unit nuclear plant equipped with Westinghouse pressurized water reactors.

The contract includes engineering, procurement and construction of two buildings, four diesel generator sets with sub-systems, switch gears and transformers, HVAC systems, fire-protection systems, as well as all related digital safety and non-safety instrumentation and control systems.

Westinghouse will provide full project management oversight and coordination of the interfaces to Axpo’s plant integration sub-project from its regional offices in Switzerland and Germany.

Each diesel generator will provide emergency power in the range of 3MW to one of the emergency power trains of Beznau Units 1 and 2.

Emergency power connections for Beznau Units 1 and 2 currently are provided by a hydroelectric plant located on the Beznau nuclear island and existing emergency diesel power units; however, the hydroelectric plant is scheduled to be dismantled in 2015.

Preliminary contract work is under way and is scheduled to be completed during the Beznau Unit 1 spring 2014 and Beznau unit 2 fall 2014 outages.

 

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