Quarterly Nuclear Deployment Summary

Moving Toward Deployment

April 2011
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New Nuclear Plant Orders

Summary: Four plant construction contracts have been initiated; nine power companies have ordered large component forgings from three reactor vendors for potential nuclear plants; one vendor ordered other large equipment; two vendors are building large fabrication facilities.

Long-Lead Equipment Orders: Toshiba and Westinghouse have placed large forging orders; Westinghouse has also ordered reactor coolant pumps and containment liner plates.

• Progress, SCE&G, and Southern have contracted with Westinghouse for long-lead component forgings.
• NRG Energy signed an agreement with Toshiba for long-lead component forgings.
• Japan Steel Works is expanding capacity; AREVA, Doosan, BWXT, and Russia’s Uralmash-Izhora Group (OMZ) are among those reportedly developing large forging capabilities.
• Areva and Northrop Grumman have begun to build a facility in Newport News, Virginia, to manufacture heavy components for the EPR, scheduled to begin production in 2013
• Shaw and Westinghouse built a 410,000-square-foot facility at the Port of Lake Charles, Louisiana, to produce structural, piping, equipment, and other modules for the AP1000 technology.

Plant Construction Contracts:Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contracts signed for four plants; a term sheet for a future EPC contract has been signed for one plant.

• Southern Nuclear with Westinghouse and Shaw Group for two AP1000s at Vogtle.
• SCE&G and Santee Cooper with Westinghouse for two AP1000s at V.C. Summer.
• Progress Energy with Westinghouse and Shaw Group for two AP1000s at Levy County.
• STPNOC with Toshiba for two ABWRs at South Texas Project.
• TVA has signed a conditional contract with AREVA for Engineering and Development to complete construction of Bellefonte Unit 1.

New Plant Construction, Operation, Deferral

Summary: Site preparatory work is in progress for Vogtle, V.C. Summer, Calvert Cliffs, and South Texas nuclear projects. TVA proceeding towards completion of legacy plants at Watts Bar and Bellefonte.

New Nuclear Plants under Construction: The NRC issued a Limited Work Authorization to Southern Nuclear Operating Company for the Vogtle nuclear plant site near Augusta, Georgia. TVA resumed construction-related activities at two mothballed sites.

• Safety-related construction for Vogtle began March 2010 with placement of engineered backfill in accordance with the Limited Work Authorization.
• Watts Bar 2, near Spring City, Tennessee, resumed at a total cost of $2.5 billion with an estimated completion date of 2013.
• Construction permits have been reinstated for Bellefonte Units 1 and 2 near Scottsboro, Alabama; the TVA Board approved $248 million for Unit 1 construction and awarded engineering contract to Areva.
• Construction of some reactor designs to be built in the US is underway in other countries: four AP1000s in China, two APWRs in Japan, one EPR in Finland and another in France; four ABWRs are in operation in Japan and two are nearing completion in Japan and Taiwan.

New Nuclear Plant Begin Operation: None.

Deferred: None.