First US Commercial Nuclear Reactor Segmentation Completed

World Nuclear News reported that EnergySolutions, through its wholly owned subsidiary, has completed the first large commercial reactors vessel segmentation in the US, using oxy-propane.
As quoted in the market news:

ZionSolutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of EnergySolutions, completed the segmentation of the reactor vessel of unit 2 of Zion nuclear power plant in late June.
The first successful completion of a large commercial reactor vessel segmentation in the country was Rancho Seco in 2008. That plant’s reactor pressure vessel was segmented into 21 pieces and shipped offsite to a low level radioactive waste facility. However, EnergySolutions said the Zion Station project was the first to use the large-scale application of thermal cutting (oxy-propane) technology, which resulted in a much quicker cutting time – one month versus seven months at Rancho Seco.
After more than 20 years of operation, Zion’s two reactors were permanently shut down on 15 January 1998. Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), owner of the plant at the time, concluded that the continued operation of Zion Station was not financially feasible and the plant was removed from service.

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