American Electric Power Corporation

The reactor to be discussed is the large FWR manufactured by the Westinghouse Electric Company, which has been built for the Diablo Canyon station of the Pacific Gas Electric Company, the Donald C. Cook station of American Electric Power Corporation, and the Zion station of Commonwealth Edison Company. Rated capacities of 3250 MW (thermal) and 1060 MW (electric) have been used. The following brief description of this reactor was abstracted from the Safety Analysis Report of the Doiudd C. Cook station [Al]. 

In 2007 at the Detroit Auto Show, General Motors Corporation introduced a PHEV that utilizes a lithium ion battery [9], The Volt is a plug-in series hybrid that is expected to be produced in 2010 [10], The average distance the American commuter travels today is approximately 64 km, or 40 miles, according to US News and World Report [11], The Volt design is set to run purely on electrical power for the first 40 miles, which will cover the range of the average commute... 

Headed by James W. Parker, president of the Detroit Edison Company, the committee included senior officials of the electric-power industry and industrial-research corporations. After a year s work the group s final report recommended that more technical information be declassified and published and that more contact be allowed between AEC staff, contractors, and industry representatives. The report, however, did not indicate what was perhaps the committee s most positive contribution to atomic-power development. Its work provided knowledge of Commission activities to its members, who were influential leaders of American industry. ... 

Among those who thought hard on the subject—indeed, they were the first into the field in a big way—were researchers at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Named for the American inventor and engineer, George Westing-house, a pioneer in the introduction of alternating-current power in the United States (and whose first invention of... 

Prior to the nuclear requirement, small-scale production was carried out by Messrs. Phillips of Holland. Manufacture by the American Foote Mineral Company followed after 1940, on a scale up to 6 lb per batch per unit, using 19 in. long filaments. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation s Atomic Power Division have manufactured zirconium in larger plant since about 1950. Their units are about 5 ft 6 in. long and 2 ft diameter, as seen in Fig. 8.13. 50 ft long filaments are used, bent into a multiple hairpin as shown in Fig. 8.14. About 100 lb can be deposited in each run and the Westinghouse Electric total production capacity is over 30 tons per annum. 

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