ML20066F311
| ML20066F311 | |
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| Site: | Palo Verde, 05000350 |
| Issue date: | 07/13/1982 |
| From: | ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE CO. (FORMERLY ARIZONA NUCLEAR |
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| FOIA-82-503 PR-820713, NUDOCS 8211180150 | |
| Download: ML20066F311 (2) | |
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APS AN!100NCES RESULTS D'
OF PALO VERDE COST AND SCHEDULE ANALYSIS PHOENIX -- Arizona Public Service Co. today (July 13) announced the results of an in-depth analysis it has conducted of the construction costs and sched'ule for the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station under construction about 55 miles west of downtown Phoenix.
Thomas G.
- Woods, Jr., APS executive vice president and chief operating o'fficer, reported that construction costs are expected to remain at the currently projected $4.3 billion for completion of all three Palo verde units.
j "As we announced previously," Woods said, "we anticipate that because of the impact of scheduling problems with key equipment, augmentation of the plant's emergency response i
i system as a result of lessons learned from the Three Mile Island accident, and because of the complexity of the 4
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transition from the construction phase to the start-up phase for Unit 1, there will be delays in complet' ion of both Units 1 and 2. We now anticipate that Unit I will load fuel in August 1983 and Unit 2's fuel loading will be in August 1984. Both units are expected to generate electricity in the same years that f uel is loaded."
" Start-up activi, ties for Unit 1 continue at an accelerated pace," he said.
"We have just completed pressure testing the primary and secondary cooling systems for the Unit I reactor.
These hydrostaticitests are milestones in the start-up of the units. In the test of the primary cooling system, pipes are 8
filled with water and pressurized to 125 percent of the system's normal operating pressure in a cold mode."
Uoods said that start-up procedures call for a series of tests to be conducted on each system and sub-system in the plant prior to fuel loading. "These tests insure that each piece of equipment is functioning properly before we put the power plant in operation," he said.
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