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Under Construction 22
Operating 57
Long-Term Outage 0

Number of Reactors

(as of March 2023)

9,4

Mean Age of Reactor Fleet

(as of March 2023)

5%

Stable

Nuclear Share in Electricity Production

(2021)

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WNISR Essential News – 15 July 2022 WNISR Nuclear Construction Starts 2022: China 4, Rest of the World 0 WNISR, 15 July 2022 China launches the fourth nuclear reactor construction in 2022, Unit 3 at the Haiyang site in the Shandong province. Reportedly, work on the CAP1000, the Chinese adaptation of Westinghouse’s AP1000, started with the concreting of the base slab of the reactor building already on 7 July 2022. The event at Haiyang follows the beginning of the Sanmen-3 building in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on 28 June 2022. Both sites already host two AP1000 reactors, and the addition of two (...)
WNISR Essential News – 29 June 2022 WNISR Third Nuclear Reactor Construction Start in China in 2022 As of mid-year, no new-build launched yet in any other country WNISR, 29 June 2022 The China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced the beginning of the concrete pour for the base of the reactor building at Sanmen-3 in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on 28 June 2022. The act marks the official construction start of the first reactor based on the CAP1000 design, the Chinese adaptation of the Westinghouse AP1000 design. The Sanmen site already hosts two AP1000 that started generating power in 2018. Sanmen-3, to be followed by Sanmen-4, is the beginning (...)
WNISR Essential News – 20 May 2022 WNISR Second Russian Nuclear Reactor Construction Start in China This Year—Anyways 2 Russian nuclear company Rosatom announced the construction start on 19 May 2022 of the Xudabu-4 reactor in China. This is the second official building launch of a Russian nuclear unit in China since the beginning of the war in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The following day, Rosatom had started construction of the Tianwan-8 reactor in Jiangsu province in eastern China. Pouring of basemat concrete for the reactor building at the Xudabu-4 unit — Photo Rosatom Representatives of Rosatom have been (...)
WNISR Essential News – 6 May 2022 WNISR Startup of Hongyanhe-6 Nuclear Reactor in China Hongyanhe-6 in Dalian, Liaoning province, China, was connected to the grid for the first time on 2 May 2022. The Hongyanhe plant is owned and operated by Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co, a joint venture between China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) and China Power Investment Corporation (CNPC), each holding a 45 percent stake, with the Dalian Municipal Construction Investment Co holding the remaining 10 Percent. The project comprises six 1,000-MW units in two phases. Photo: (...)
WNISR Essential News – 26 February 2022 WNISR Russian Nuclear Industry Starts Nuclear Reactor Construction in China—Anyways WNISR, 26 February 2022 Construction of the Tianwan-8 reactor, a Russian VVER-1200 design, began 25 February 2022 with the pouring of base mat concrete. Located in Lianyungang City on the Yellow Sea coast of Jiangsu province in eastern China, six reactors are currently operating at the site, and according to Russian state nuclear company, Rosatom, Tianwan units 7 and 8, now both under construction, are scheduled to “be commissioned in 2026-2027.” The Tianwan plant is owned and operated by (...)
WNISR Essential News – 15 February 2022 WNISR – Nuclear Power 2021 Highest Number of Reactor Closures in a Decade 2021 in nuclear numbers—Six reactor startups, ten less than planned at the beginning of the year. Eight closures plus two closure announcements. Ten construction starts. Three reactors in Long-Term Outage (LTO) restarted, two closed. As of 1 January 2022, 412 reactors in operation, 25 in LTO, and 55 under construction. The Year 2021 saw the largest number of nuclear reactor closures in a decade, since 2011, when the Fukushima disaster began. Three of the six remaining units were closed in (...)
WNISR in the Media – 27 January 2022 Forbes (U.S.) Current Climate: Solar Roofs’ Mainstream Route, Electric Batteries’ Recycling Imperative, And A Chat About Nuclear Energy Climate Talks: Sofia Lotto Persio interviews Mycle Schneider. Abstract of “Current Climate”, weekly sustainability news published by Forbes. by Sofia Lotto Persio Published 8 January 2022 Hello and welcome to the first Current Climate issue of 2022. [...] In Climate Talks, I spoke to Mycle Schneider, lead author of the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report, about whether nuclear power is truly a sustainable energy source. [...] Climate Talks The International Atomic Energy Agency (...)
WNISR Essential News – 10 January 2022 WNISR Fuqing-6 Hualong One Reactor Connected to the Grid in China WNISR, 10 January 2022 The Fuqing-6 reactor located in Fujian province in south east China was connected to the grid on 1 January 2022 according to plant owner China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). Construction began on the HPR1000 reactor, also known as Hualong One design, on 22 December 2015. The design is derived mainly from the 900 MWe reactors that China imported from France in the 1980s (Daya Bay) and 1990s (Ling Ao). The first HPR1000, Fuqing-5, was connected to the grid on 27 (...)
WNISR Essential News – 10 January 2022 WNISR Construction Start of Changjiang-4 and Sanaocun-2 Reactors in China WNISR, 10 January 2022 Two construction starts at year-end in China. Pouring of basemat concrete for the reactor building of Changjiang-4 began 28 December 2021. Two days later, on 30 December 2021, construction started on Sanaocun-2. The Changjiang site is located in Haiwei Township, Changjiang Li Autonomous County on the island province of Hainan, while the Sanaocun site is in the eastern Zhejiang province. Both projects use the HPR1000 reactor design, also known as the Hualong One. (...)
WNISR Essential News – 24 December 2021 WNISR Grid Connection for First High-Temperature Reactor Module in China WNISR, 24 December 2021 Grid connection for one of the two modules that make up Shidao Bay-1 nuclear plant took place on 20 December 2021. The plant consists of two High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor - Pebble-bed Modules (HTR-PM) located at the Shidaowan site, in the eastern China province of Shandong. Construction start was 9 December 2012 with grid connection originally planned for 2017. The 2 x 100 MW reactors are owned by the China Huaneng Group and operated by the Huaneng Shandong Shidao (...)

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