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Operating
49
Long-Term Outage
1
Number of Reactors
(as of January 2021)
8.3
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(as of January 2021)
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Essential News –
9 January 2021
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Fourth 2020 Reactor Construction-Start in China
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, 6 January 2021 Beginning of concrete pour for the base slab of the San’ao-1 reactor building - Photo
CGN
Construction began 31 December 2020 on unit 1 at the Zhejiang San’ao Nuclear Power Plant with the first basemat-concrete pour, according to China General Nuclear (
CGN
) and China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
). This was the fourth construction start of the year in China and the fifth in the world. Only one other reactor got underway in 2020 outside China, Akkuyu-2, in Turkey. (...)
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3 January 2021
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Construction Start of Second Fast Reactor in China
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, 3 January 2021 Construction site of the
CFR
-600 Unit 2 — Photo
CNNC
Construction began 27 December 2020 on the China Fast Reactor (
CFR
-600) unit 2 according to the China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
). The
CFR
is a sodium cooled reactor, also known as the Xiapu Fast Breeder Reactor (
FBR
) pilot project, and is being built in Xiapu County, Fujian province. There remains uncertainty about the status of
CFR
-600 unit 1. It has reportedly been under construction since December (...)
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29 November 2020
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First Chinese Hualong-One Reactor Connected to the Grid
Fuqing Units 5 and 6 - Photo
CNNC
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, 29 November 2020 The Fuqing-5 reactor, located in Fujian province in south east China, was connected to the grid on 27 November 2020, according to plant owner the China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
). Construction began on 7 May 2015. It is the first Hualong One (
HPR
-1000) reactor to begin operation, with the design derived mainly from the 900 MWe reactors that China imported from France in the 1980s (Daya Bay) and 1990s (Ling Ao). Fuqing-6, also (...)
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Essential News –
11 November 2020
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Another Nuclear Reactor Construction Start in China
Taipingling Nuclear Power Plant Site (Artist Illustration,
NNSA
)
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, 11 November 2020 Construction start of Taipingling-2 on 15 October 2020 has been reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (
IAEA
) Power Reactor Information System (
PRIS
). The reactor, also called Huizhou-2 and owned by
CGN
Power (part of China General Nuclear Power Corporation or
CGNPC
), is located in Guangdong province. This is the second construction start in China in 2020 and the third in the world, with (...)
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7 September 2020
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Second Nuclear Construction Start in 2020 in the World—in China
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, 7 September 2020 Construction has begun of the Zhangzhou-2, a Hualong One or
HPR
-1000 design reactor with the pouring of basemat concrete on 4 September 2020, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
). It is the second unit at the site following the construction start of Zhangzhou-1 on 16 October 2019. It is also the second construction start in the world after Akkuyu-2 in Turkey earlier in the year. The plant is owned by
CNNC
-Guodian Zhangzhou Energy Company, owned (...)
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Essential News –
13 August 2020
First Reactor Grid Connection in the World in 2020—in China
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, 13 August 2020 The Tianwan reactor unit 5 was connected to the grid on 8 August 2020. Built and operated by the China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
), commercial operation is scheduled for December this year. Tianwan is the first reactor to be connected to the grid in the world in 2020, and it is located in Jiangsu province on the Yellow Sea, eastern China. The one startup wordwide compares with three reactor closures (two in France, one in the U.S.) during the year so far. (...)
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19 October 2019
China: First Commercial Reactor Construction-Start in Three Years
China: First Commercial Reactor Construction-Start in Three Years
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, 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 (...)
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1 July 2019
Second European Pressurized Water Reactor Starts Up… in China
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, 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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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