Consolidated Edison of New York

CM 1093 (28 June 1955), AEC/DOE AEC 785/6 (8 Aug. 1955), AEC/NRC. Letters were sent to the following probable operators Detroit Edison, Yankee Electric Company, Consumers Public Power District, Consolidated Edison of New York, Commonwealth Edison and to the following vendors North American Aviation, AMF Atomics, Babcock and Wilcox, General Electric, and Westinghouse. 

Numbers in boxes are locations in the report where addressed. (From their PSA, reproduced with permission of Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc. and Power Authority of New York.)... 

Hot water can be transported over longer distances with little heat loss while steam heat distribution systems can only serve high-density regions. The largest steam system in the United States is a part of New York s Consolidated Edison Company and serves a small part of Manhattan Island. The larger pipes or mains carry 200 to 250°F water under pressure. Re-... 

Consolidated Edison Company of New York installed a simitar -I K MW unir in New York. City, but after a lew years, the project was closed down. The demonstration did mu see the production of power as planned because the acid electrolyte of the fuel celts became depleted due to emended program delays. An attempt to replenish the aid was unsuccessful However, must was teamed daring the engineering, licensing, construction ami start-up phases of ihe program. 

The first large-scale privately-financed nuclear power plant is being built by Consolidated Edison Company of New York. It is also the first thorium power plant in the world. The site of this 55,000,000 station, with a capacity of 200,000 kilowatts, is Indian Point, New York, on the Hudson River about 40 mil s north of New York City. This water-moderated breeder type of nuclear system will supply electricity to about one million New Yorkers starting in 1960. 

Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation, Consolidated Edison Company of New York Incorporated, Long Island Lighting Company, New York State Electric and Gas Corporation, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Orange and Rockland Utilities Incorporate, Chester Gas and Electric Corporation. 

In addition to the round-one proposals, the AEC granted in May 1956 a construction permit to Consolidated Edison Company of New York to build a pressurized-water reactor on the Hudson River at Indian Point, New York, approximately twenty-four miles north of the center of New York City. Top management in the company disliked government intrusion and believed that private enterprise should underwrite the development of commercial atomic power. On that basis Consolidated Edison proceeded with the Indian Point plant without participating in the Power Demonstration Reactor Program. The facOity began operation in 1962. ... 

Dresden 1 BWR about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Chicago, Illinois Consolidated Edison proposed the Indian Point 1 PWR 24 miles (39 km) north of New York City and Detroit Edison proposed the Enrico Fermi fast reactor 25 miles (40 km) south of Detroit. Containment buildings were proposed for all three reactors. 

The review of the data portion of the Indian Point 2 (IP2) and 3 (IPS) PRA (a 1982 internal document prepared by Consolidated Edison and the New York Power Authority) is confined to the plant-specific and generic component failure and service hour data sections because these were the only segments available to the reviewers. The LERs produced during a ten-year span of IP2 s operation were evaluated to determine their applicability to the PRA data needs. It was eventually decided to use only the LERs generated after IP2 became critical (from May 23, 1973 to December 31, 1979) for the component data base development, based on the availability of failure event information and more uniform operability, testing, and reporting criteria. 

In the fall of 1978 a full-scale test program was pursued in a commercial power plant of the Consolidated Edison Company in New York City (4). The test was conducted in three phases in Con Edison s 74th street station utilizing a 450,000 lb/hr steam electric Combustion Engineering tangentially-fired boiler, as shown in Table V. 

Due to a thunderstorm upstate, four separate power lines were struck by lightning earlier this evening. Within half an hour the utility suffered a massive loss of some 2,000 megawatts. At precisely 9 34 p.m., New York City experienced a total electrical blackout. As the Consolidated Edison Company struggles to restore power to the city, reports of widespread violence and looting have been flooding in. 

In February 1977, as PC-19 began churning out electricity, the US Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Electric Power Research Institute, issued a request for proposals to build a big (4.5 megawatts) phosphoric acid demonstrator fuel cell power plant in New York City. Consolidated Edison was picked as the host utility. 

To simulate recovery of uranium and thorium from irradiated 6 percent uranium, 94 percent thorium fuel from the first loading of Consolidated Edison Company s Indian Point 1 nuclear power plant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [R3] made small-scale experiments on application of the acid Thorex process to fuel containing the appropriate amounts of uranium and thorium, with tracer quantities of the principal fission products. Spent uranium-thorium fuel from the Indian Point 1 plant was subsequently processed by Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., at West Valley, New York, for recovery of uranium, but without separation of thorium from fission products. No account of this separation has been published. 

A second PWR was designed and built at Buchanan, New York, for the Consolidated Edison Company. The reactor was designed by the Babcock Wilcox Company and had the unique feature of an oil- or coal-fired superheater. The plant was a 275-MWe and 585-MWt plant. The plant used fuel that was a mixture of uranium and thorium oxide. 

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