CB&I has been awarded a contract by Westinghouse Electric Company for two nuclear containment vessels for Georgia Power in Waynesboro, Georgia.  CB&I’s contract includes project planning, design, engineering, procurement, fabrication, assembly, installation, testing, and painting.  Details on the containment vessels follow:

• Each containment vessel will weigh approximately 4,000 tons.
• Each 1.75 inch thick containment vessel is approximately 130 feet in diameter by 215 feet tall
• The vessels have approximately 70 penetrations ranging from ½ inch to 16 feet in diameter.
• CB&I will be using special preheat and automated welding equipment.
• The unit will produce 1,100 megawatts.
• CB&I supported Westinghouse for over 10 years in the design of the containment.
• The containment vessels will be enclosed inside the shield building with a 4.5 feet annulus between them.
• Each containment vessel is sub-assembled into five major sections and transported to the nuclear island for placement and welding in-place.

Other items in CB&I’s scope of work include:

• Air baffle supports
• Water distribution weir supports
• Polar crane girder
• Internal and external stiffeners
• PXS gutter supports

CB&I has renewed its nuclear certifications, including the N, NA, NPT and NS Certificates of Accreditation and the N, NA, and NPT Certificates of Authorization from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

CB&I has built 75% of the nuclear containment vessels currently operating in the U.S. Our first nuclear containment vessel was completed in 1952.  CB&I’s nuclear  experience includes:

• 130 containment vessels built worldwide
• 41 reactor vessels
• Personnel locks
• Pool liners
• Biological shield walls
• Pipe whip restraints
• Plant start up
• Storage tanks

CB&I engineers have made extensive contributions to the ASME Section III code.