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Offshore Power Systems : ウィキペディア英語版 | Offshore Power Systems Offshore Power Systems (OPS) was a 1970 joint venture between Westinghouse Electric Company, which constructed nuclear generating plants, and Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock, which had recently merged with Tenneco, to create floating nuclear power plants at Jacksonville, Florida.〔Adams, Rod: ("Offshore Power Systems: Big Plants for a Big Customer" ) Atomic Insights, August 1996〕〔Putnam, Walter: ("Floating nuclear plants may become reality" ) Boca Raton News, November 15, 1981〕 ==History== The MH-1A was actually the first floating nuclear power station, built by Martin Marietta for the US Army in the early 1960s. The reactor was installed in a converted liberty ship hull and used by the Army from 1968 to 1975 in the Panama Canal Zone. It produced relatively low power output of 10 megawatts compared to the projected 2,300 megawatt capacity of the OPS plants.〔Adams, Rod: ("Army Nuclear Power Plants" ) Atomic Insights, November 1995〕 The much larger concept was envisioned in 1969 by Richard Eckert, the engineer at Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) tasked with identifying power plant sites. He discovered that there were very few suitable locations, but most were close to the Atlantic Ocean. Westinghouse began the project in 1970 based on two premises: all nuclear power plants were custom built and designed, and local residents close to the proposed location of a nuclear facility typically took a NIMBY attitude. Therefore, identical reactors mass-produced from a "factory" location could be built quicker and at less expense, and if the power plant was located miles from populated areas (in the ocean), there would be less opposition. The idea was promoted by PSE&G as the Atlantic Nuclear Power Plant.〔 PSE&G ordered two 1,150 megawatt reactors for the project in 1972, and two more the following year for operation in the mid-1980s.〔("Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report 1997" ) page 61〕 OPS decided to locate their production facility at the Port of Jacksonville.
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