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Aalo breaks ground in Idaho
Eight days after Aalo Atomics released the details of its securing of $100 million in Series B funding, the company announced that it has broken ground on the 50-MWe Aalo-X. Sited in the desert beside Idaho National Laboratory, it will be the company’s first nuclear power plant, and it remains on track to go on line by July 4, 2026.
Glen R. Hayes, Joseph F. Marsden
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 4 | December 1989 | Pages 721-728
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Decontamination and Waste Management / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27664
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EG&G Idaho, acting on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy, is cooperating with the owner of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) plant, GPU Nuclear Corporation, in the removal and transport of the damaged TMI-2 core to the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. Quality assurance (QA) played an important role in the removal and transport of the damaged TMI-2 core. Discussed are some of the important QA techniques utilized in the design, fabrication, acceptance, and use of the three different types of equipment: (a) the core boring machine, (b) the core debris canisters, and (c) the transport casks. Rather than a thorough discussion of the QA aspects of each task, the key applications of QA principles and methodology unique to each piece of equipment are presented. This approach is designed to effectively communicate the importance of “task teamwork” in QA.