• Reactor Vessel Placed Inside Vogtle Unit 3
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[QUOTE]Construction contractors Westinghouse and Fluor Corp. lifted the 306-ton reactor vessel into its permanent location inside the AP1000 unit’s nuclear island on November 23. The vessel, fabricated by Doosan Heavy Industries in South Korea was shipped to the construction site from the Port of Savannah on a specialized rail car, said Georgia Power on November 30.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;9Ljum3Ih23o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ljum3Ih23o[/video] [url]http://www.powermag.com/reactor-vessel-placed-inside-vogtle-unit-3/[/url]
What wizardry does one use to move 306 tons into the air and across a sizable distance like that?
[QUOTE=Revenge282;51463213]What wizardry does one use to move 306 tons into the air and across a sizable distance like that?[/QUOTE] lots of pulleys and counterweights id assume
[QUOTE=Revenge282;51463213]What wizardry does one use to move 306 tons into the air and across a sizable distance like that?[/QUOTE] The Biggie 125 AFRD which uses the earth as a counterweight.
really neat but god what is up with that title
Which guy in the video is the OP
[QUOTE=Del91;51463619]Which guy in the video is the OP[/QUOTE] None. I was on vacation when they did this pick.
And to think, just on the other side of that steel pill there will be an environment so unimaginably radioactive that no life can survive within, that enough energy to power an entire state will be generated from said radioactivity. [QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;51463673]None. I was on vacation when they did this pick.[/QUOTE] Maybe I'm a nut, but if there's one day I'd refuse to miss come hell or high water, it'd be the day I was on hand to help install the reactor vessel.
Man that's fascinating as hell, its still hard to believe that reactor vessels are just one giant nuclear-grade steel cast.
[QUOTE=TestECull;51463717]Maybe I'm a nut, but if there's one day I'd refuse to miss come hell or high water, it'd be the day I was on hand to help install the reactor vessel.[/QUOTE] I had to inspect the reactor cavity, so it's all good lol. Imagine standing in an area that nobody will be allowed to go for at least decades if not centuries.
[QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;51463313]The Biggie 125 AFRD which uses the earth as a counterweight.[/QUOTE] Huh?
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;51464822]Huh?[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.bigge.com/rigging-and-transport-services/"]Heavy industry truck and crane company.[/URL]
Just a guess but I think he was more concerned about the crane using the earth as the counterweight rather than the name of the company.
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;51464929][URL="http://www.bigge.com/rigging-and-transport-services/"]Heavy industry truck and crane company.[/URL][/QUOTE] No I mean, using the Earth as a counterweight?
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;51465905]No I mean, using the Earth as a counterweight?[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6979584111_9d73499a99_b.jpg[/IMG] That long pole on the back is attached to a concrete drilled shaft that goes down into the ground.
[QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;51464050]I had to inspect the reactor cavity, so it's all good lol. Imagine standing in an area that nobody will be allowed to go for at least decades if not centuries.[/QUOTE] I know, right? You standing in that cavity, or perhaps you have your hands on the vessel itself, and it just has to weigh on the mind of the sorts of inhospitable, hellish conditions these spaces, these things will be subjected to for longer than you will survive in the best case. Absolutely staggering that your eyes would be one of the last ones to ever gaze directly upon that space. I'm sure the guys that were installing the coolant tubes in the vessel had similar thoughts, 'specially the ones that had to weld the interior beads.
[QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;51467014][IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6979584111_9d73499a99_b.jpg[/IMG] That long pole on the back is attached to a concrete drilled shaft that goes down into the ground.[/QUOTE] thats really cool and clever
In case you wanted an infographic: [IMG]http://www.mmitank.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/worlds-largest-cranes.jpg[/IMG]
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