Proposed Power Could Double Alabama's Nuclear Generation Capacity to Almost 10,000 Megawatts

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Alabama currently has two nuclear power plants that can produce a total of up to 5,008 megawatts (MW): the two-unit, 1,711-MW Farley Nuclear Power Station in Columbia, Alabama, owned by Alabama Power Company (Birmingham, Alabama), a subsidiary of the Southern Company (NYSE:SO) (Atlanta, Georgia); and the three-unit, 3,297-MW Browns Ferry Nuclear Station in Decatur, Alabama, owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (Knoxville, Tennessee).

The TVA is planning new nuclear generation capacity at the partially built Bellefonte Nuclear Power Station in Hollywood, Alabama. The TVA is looking at three options for the site:

• Complete the partially constructed units, Unit 1 (97% complete) and Unit 2 (50% complete), for 2,664 MW
• Construct two new units, Unit 3 and Unit 4, for 2,308 MW
• Construct all four units for 4,792 MW

The partially constructed units consist of pressurized water reactors from Babcock & Wilcox (Barberton, Ohio), a subsidiary of McDermott International Incorporated (NYSE:MDR) (Houston, Texas), that would provide steam to drive two Brown Boveri, now ABB Limited (NYSE:ABB) (Zurich, Switzerland), steam turbine/generator sets. The two new units would use AP1000 technology from Westinghouse Nuclear Services (Monroeville, Pennsylvania), a division of Toshiba Corporation (PINKSHEETS:TOSBF) (Minato, Tokyo), to drive two 1154-MW steam turbine sets.

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