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Under Construction
11
Operating
47
Long-Term Outage
1
Number of Reactors
(as of December 2019)
7.7
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of December 2019)
4.2%
Stable
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WNISR
Essential News –
19 October 2019
China: First Commercial Reactor Construction-Start in Three Years
China: First Commercial Reactor Construction-Start in Three Years
WNISR
, 18 October 2019 China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
), on 16 October 2019, announced the construction start of Zhangzhou-1, a Hualong or
HPR
-1000 design. Phase 1 of the project at Zhangzhou, located in south east China’s Fuijan province, was originally planned to be based on two Westinghouse
AP1000
reactors. However, as reported by Reuters, citing a Chinese energy academic, “the problem with
AP1000
—the delays, the (...)
WNISR
Essential News –
1 July 2019
Second European Pressurized Water Reactor Starts Up… in China
WNISR
, 30 June 2019 On 28 June 2019, China connected the second European Pressurized Water Reactor (
EPR
) at Taishan to the grid. The first unit, Taishan-1, had generated its first power on 29 June 2018. Despite its name, Europe is still waiting for an
EPR
to come online. One reactor has been under construction at Olkiluoto in Finland since 2005, and another one since 2007 at the Flamanville site in France. Both projects experienced multiple design problems, management failures and quality (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
6 January 2019 [fr]
Le Temps (Switzerland)
L’idylle de la Chine avec le nucléaire
Alors que le reste du monde se détourne de cette forme d’énergie, Pékin ne cesse de construire de nouvelles centrales. Une façon de lutter contre le smog et de soutenir la croissance. Le Temps Publié dimanche 6 janvier 2019 à 15:31, modifié dimanche 6 janvier 2019 à 15:32. Julie Zaugg, Hong-Kong Fin décembre, le prix de l’uranium atteignait 29 dollars la livre, une hausse de 41% depuis avril. Cet étrange sursaut du prix d’une commodité largement délaissée depuis la catastrophe de Fukushima, qui a mis (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
13 December 2018
MIT
Technology Review (
US
)
China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.
Once nuclear’s strongest booster, China is growing wary about its cost and safety.
MIT
Technology Review, 12 December 2018 by Peter Fairley "Most beautiful wedding photos taken at a nuclear power plant” might just be the strangest competition ever. But by inviting couples to celebrate their nuptials at the Daya Bay plant in Shenzhen and post the pictures online, China General Nuclear Power (
CGN
), the country’s largest nuclear power operator, got lots of favorable publicity. For years, as (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
1 November 2018 [de]
Der Spiegel (Germany)
Warum Chinas Liebe zur Atomkraft erkaltet
Spiegel Online, Donnerstag, 27.09.2018 14:27 Uhr Von Georg Blume Kein anderes Land hat seit dem Atomunfall im japanischen Fukushima im Jahr 2011 mehr in die Atomkraft investiert als China. Noch im vergangenen Jahr stieg die weltweite Produktion von Atomstrom nur deshalb um ein Prozent, weil China seine um 18 Prozent erhöhte. Doch nun gibt es Signale für eine energiepolitische Wende in Peking. Die hochrangige und regierungsnahe Branchenvertreterin Jade Huang spricht von einer „Entscheidung (...)
WNISR
Essential News –
30 October 2018
Seventh Reactor Startup in China in 2018 [Corrected]
Seventh Reactor Startup in China in 2018
WNISR
, 30 October 2018, Corrected. The Tianwan unit 4 reactor was connected to the Chinese power grid on 27 October 2018. This is the seventh reactor to start up in China in 2018, a remarkable performance. Only two other units started up in the world throughout the year so far, both in Russia. Tianwan-4 is a Russian-origin
VVER
-1000 reactor, designed by Gidropress and supplied by Rosatom, and it is located in Jiangsu province on the Yellow Sea, (...)
WNISR
Essential News –
16 October 2018
Fourth—and Last?—Westinghouse
AP1000
Connected to Chinese Grid
Fourth—and Last?—Westinghouse
AP1000
Connected to Chinese Grid
WNISR
, 16 October 2018 The Haiyang-2
AP1000
in Shandong Province, owned by the China Power Investment Corporation (
CPI
) and operated by the Shandong Nuclear Power Company, Ltd (
SDNCP
) was connected to the grid on 13 October 2018. This brings to four the number of Westinghouse
AP1000
reactors operating in China. Haiyang-1 was connected to the grid on 17 August 2018, and Sanmen-1 and -2 were connected on 30 June 2018 and 24 August (...)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).
WNISR
Essential News –
26 August 2018
Two More AP1000s Connected to the Chinese Grid
Two More AP1000s Connected to the Chinese Grid
WNISR
, 26 August 2018 Two more
AP1000
reactors have been connected to the grid in China during the past ten days. Haiyang-1, located in Shandong Province, owned by the China Power Investment Corporation (
CPI
) and operated by the Shandong Nuclear Power Company, Ltd (
SDNCP
) was connected to the grid on 17 August 2018. Sanmen-2, located in Zhejiang Province, was connected to the grid on 24 August 2018, according to plant owner the China National (...)
WNISR
Essential News –
2 July 2018
A Double First for China as Taishan
EPR
and Sanmen
AP1000
Connect to the Grid
A Double First for China as Taishan
EPR
and Sanmen
AP1000
Connect to the Grid
WNISR
, 1 July 2018 The Chinese nuclear program scored a double world first in the space of 24 hours, when on 29 June 2018 Taishan-1, the first European/Evolutionary Pressurized Water Reactor (
EPR
), was connected to the grid, followed on 30 June 2018 by Sanmen-1, the first
AP1000
. The startup of these reactors marks an important milestone in the Chinese nuclear program, but they also highlight the overall failure of (...)
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