ML19319E278
| ML19319E278 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Rancho Seco |
| Issue date: | 03/06/1969 |
| From: | SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT |
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| References | |
| PR-690306, NUDOCS 8004010550 | |
| Download: ML19319E278 (3) | |
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. March 6, 1969 More fuel and more land for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District's Rancho Seco nuclear steam generating plant were the highlights of'today's SMUD Board meeting.
Purchase of-$11 million worth of uranium fuel from Utah Con-struction and Mining Company'of San Francisco was authorized.
According to William J.-Nolan, SMUD Assistant General Manager and Treasurer, who headed the team negotiating the contract, the uranium con-centrate kncun as yellowcake will be used for the first three-reloads at Rancho Seco in 1974, 1975, and 1975.
"ipproximately one-third of the planc'a rea(tor core is refueled each year," Nolan said. "The spent fuel is sent off for re-refining.
"The yellowcake purchased today, about 600 tons, is for deliveries in 1973,'.1974, and 1975.
It will be processed and enriched by other vendors before it is ready for Rancho Se'co."
SMUD, purchased uranium for.the original loading for its nuclear
- generating-plant in December 1967. That. contract also was with Utah Con--
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More land for.the Rancho Seco complex will be needed, according to SKUD Cencral Manager Paul E. Shaad, so that the necessary reservoir can be built in a natural basin.
i "The' land immediately. south of the present Rancho Seco property on a branch of the Hadsciville Creek forms a natural site for the economical building of a large reservoir," Shaad told the Board.
"The reservoir will have a 160-acre surface, a 4-mile shoreline, and contain about 2600 acre-feet.
It would always be full and would be used only as a standby cooling water source for.the plant. As such, it has recreational potential and SMUD is working with the County of Sacramento toward that end," Shaad said.
The Board of Directors' action today was to authorize condemna-tion proceedings on 360 acres of the Richard H. Ilamel ranch south of the Rancho Seco site.
In still another action relating to the nuclear generating plant, the Board authorized signing an agreement with Hercules Broadcasting Company for the relocation of radio station KRAK's transmitter. The present trans-
' mitter is located on a lease site' next'co the nuclear plant and'its broadcast signal would interfere with instrumentation at the power plant. KRAK's transmitter will be relocated a few miles. closer to Sacramento.
Three equipment contracts and two construction contracts were awarded as follows:
For two three-phase pad mounted transformers,
.R T E Corporation, Portland, Oregon, $4,688.
- For seven single-phase pad' mounted transformers,
., {Allis-Chalmers, San Francisco,.$5,645.
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- For 30 passenger automobiles and 27 trucks of various sizes. Capitol Chevrolet Co., Suburban Motors, Inc., John Geer Chevrolet, Swift Dodge, and Lew Williams Chevrolet Center, all of.'
. Sacramento, $109,241.16-The two construction contr: cts were for duct line construction at the Swanston overcrossing, Wismer & Becker Contracting Engineers,.
' Sacramento. $5,327; and for construction of one manhole and duct line, 21st Street at J-K Alley, Meryl V. Tufts,' Sacramento, $6.623.
Contact Doug Johnson 452-3211 Exr. 404 e
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