这Tennessee Valley Authority announced on Oct. 4 that it hired France’s AREVA to begin preliminary steps to complete the 1,200-megawatt Unit 1 at the mothballed Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station in Hollywood, Ala. Photo: Courtesy Of Tennessee Valley Authority French contractor will restart TVA’s idle powerplant project. Jarret Adams, a spokesman in the design firm’s Bethesda, Md., office, says AREVA’s contract includes the plant’s nuclear island, digital instrumentation, control system and control room. “This contract is for the preliminary engineering only,” Adams says. “It’s … preliminary and only covers fiscal year 2011. Our contract is a portion of the $248
A meeting between unions and construction owners in the Chicago area inched forward but failed to produce a resolution as talks were rescheduled for July 19. Meanwhile, an estimated 15,000 Chicago-area construction workers aren’t working and 300 Illinois Department of Transportation projects have been delayed as unions and construction owners work to resolve the strike that began July 1. Workers with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 and Laborers’ District Council of Chicago and Vicinity are petitioning for a total wage increase of 15 percent over three years to offset the rising cost of health care, says Ed
杜克能源公司(Duke Energy)在印第安纳州爱德华兹波特(Edwardsport)的100英亩土地上建造了28.8亿美元的煤炭退化发电厂,是一项巨大的努力,最初是无数的。在细节设计阶段进行的许多变化导致材料量显着增加。在设计高峰期间,涉及多达460名Bechtel工程师。Powerduke的高级燃煤电厂的聚光灯达到28.8亿美元。相关链接:FutureGen等待OK Perfect Power System证明,该项目的前所未有的性质迫使Duke在618兆瓦的集成气化合并周期(IGCC)工厂将其原始成本估算提高了48%。这