Boilers to be brought down on 20 April.
The Mohave Generating Station boiler structures are scheduled to be imploded around 9 a.m. on April 20, according to Paul Phelan, manager of engineering and technical services for Southern California Edison. Phelan also serves as the plant’s decommissioning project manager. The concrete turbine deck will be brought down during the week of May 11, Phelan said.
The 1,580-megawatt coal-fired facility has been undergoing a 3-year decommissioning process after closing at the end of 2005. The deadline to drop the boilers has been something of a movable feast ever since with at least three dates having come and gone in 2011 alone.
Unlike the stack implosion last March, there will be no public viewing on MGS property, Phelan said. As to whether Laughlin will be shrouded in a cloud of haze, as was the case after the stack implosion, he said, “There will likely be some short-term dust. I don’t think it will be quite as extensive as maybe the stack was.” Much of the insulation has been removed, but “inside the boiler itself, there’s going to be trapped ash. We’ll try to control that to the greatest extent that we can. We’ll have water trucks on standby to immediately come into the area and do what we can to prevent any dust from leaving the property,” Phelan said.
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