Germans Build New Press For AP1000 Nuclear Reactor Components.

[NNadir]

A major new facility has been commissioned in Germany for the production of large reactor components.

The 12,000 tonne press installed at Völklingen by Saarschmiede GmbH Freiformschmiede can handle ingots of up to 370 tonnes - enough to make all but the largest reactor pressure vessels. The time for construction was only two years.

"Due to its geometrical dimensions," the company said, the press is "able to deal with all parts of the AP1000." It estimated that some four to six sets of heavy forgings for AP1000s could be made annually at the facility, given certain other expansions...

...Westinghouse has sourced forgings from South Korea's Doosan Heavy Industries for the four AP1000s under construction in China as well as the four forthcoming units at Vogtle and Summer in the USA.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN_New_press_for_nuclear_market_1410102.html">New press for nuclear market

One brazillion percent of German Energy is supplied by wind and solar energy, even on calm nights.

The nuclear press is for, um, other countries that don't, like the Germans, have a brazillion wind and solar powered electric/hydrogen cars.