NUCLEAR POWER

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The Senn Nuclear Power Plant Project for Italy finances 60 percent of the estimated cost of a nuclear power plant. The project consists of 1) a nuclear power plant located on the southern bank of the Garigliano River, about 7 kilometers inland from the point of its outflow into the Gulf of Gaeta; 2) a primary step-up substation; and 3) two single circuit 220 kv transmission lines--one 44 kilometers long, extending northward, connecting the plant with the Ceprano substation of the Societa Romana di Elettricita system, and the other 56 kilometers long, extending southward, connecting the plant with the Fratta Maggiore substation of the SME system. The site of the plant, between Rome and Naples, was selected because of its favorable characteristics for the safe release of waste gases and for disposal of solid radioactive wastes, good supply of cooling water, its satisfactory geological and meteorological conditions and the low population density. The generating station would incorporate a dual-cycle forced circulation boiling water nuclear reactor supplying steam to a dual admission, tandem compound turbine, directly connected to a single generator. The net guaranteed capacity of the station, at the main transformer terminal, would be 150 MW.