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Essential News –
13 May 2021
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Grid Connection for China’s Tianwan-6
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, 13 May 2021 The Tianwan-6 reactor was connected to the grid on 11 May 2021. Photo: Tianwan Units 5 and 6. Located on the Yellow Sea coast of Jiangsu province, in eastern China, the reactor was built by the China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
). Tianwan-6 has been under construction since 7 September 2016. Unit-5 was connected to the grid on 8 August 2020. Both units are of the
ACPR
-1000 design, a more advanced version of China General Nuclear Corporation’s (
CGN
) Generation
II
(...)
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27 October 2020
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Nuclear Reactor Startup in Russia
Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant - Photo Rosatom
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, 27 October 2020 Grid connection of Leningrad-2 unit 2 took place on 23 October 2020. This is the third reactor startup in the world this year following grid connections in China and the United Arab Emirates in August 2020, while four units were closed so far (two each in France and in the U.S.). The reactor, also known as Leningrad-6, is located at Sosnovy Bor in Western Russia and follows grid connection of Leningrad-2 unit 1 on 7 March (...)
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27 December 2019
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Russia Connects World’s First Floating Mini Nuclear Power Plant to Grid
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, 27 December 2019 The world’s first floating nuclear power plant was connected to the grid on 19 December 2019. The Akademik Lomonosov, with two reactors of the
KLT
-40S design, began generating electricity for the Chaun-Bilibino network in Pevek, on the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia’s east Arctic. It remains unclear, however, whether both reactors were connected to the grid and when. Rosatom’s Director General Alexey Likhachev stated on the day of “grid connection” that, “Akademik (...)
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4 May 2019
Grid Connection of Russian Reactor Novovoronezh-
II
-2
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, 4 May 2019 Russian nuclear builder-operator Rosatom announced the grid connection of the
VVER
-1200 Novovoronezh-
II
-2 on 1 May 2019. This is the second nuclear unit to start up in the world after the commissioning of a reactor in South Korea in April 2019. It is the also the second
VVER
1200 to begin operation at the site, and the third in Russia following the startup of Novovoronezh-
II
-1 on 7 August 2016 and the Leningrad-
II
-1 on 7 March 2018. Construction started on Novovoronezh-
II
-2, (...)
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16 April 2019
First Reactor Construction Start in the World in 2019, in Russia
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, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 The first construction start in 2019 of a new nuclear reactor worldwide took place in Russia. There are now 50 units under construction in the world including six in Russia. The official construction start with the pouring of basemat concrete at the Kursk-
II
unit 2 reactor was begun 15 April 2019, according to the plant owner Joint Stock Company Concern Rosenergoatom. The 1255
MW
VVER
pressurized water reactor, located 40 km from the city of Kursk in western (...)
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
).
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Essential News –
11 May 2018
Construction Start at the First Unit of Kursk-
II
in Russia
Construction Start at the First Unit of Kursk-
II
in Russia
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, 11 May 2018 The pouring of basemat concrete at the Kursk
II
unit 1 reactor was begun 29 April 2018, according to plant owner Joint Stock Company Concern Rosenergoatom. The 1255
MW
VVER
pressurized water reactor located 40 km from the city of Kursk in western Russia, is the first of the
VVER
V-510 design to be built, and is based on the
AES
-2006/V-392M design. The 1200
MW
Novovoronezh unit 6, which began operations on 5 August (...)
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12 March 2018
Five Years Late: Grid Connection of First Unit of Leningrad-
II
Nuclear Plant in Russia
Five Years Late: Grid Connection of First Unit of Leningrad-
II
Nuclear Plant in Russia
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, Monday, 12 March 2018 Russia connected the
VVER
1200 series reactor, Leningrad-
II
unit 1 to the grid, 9 March 2018, ten years after construction start in 2008 and five years later than the original scheduled startup in 2013. It is the second Rosatom
VVER
1200 to enter service, following the Novovoronezh-6 grid connection on 5 August 2016. The Leningrad plant, is located at Sosnovy Bor, in northwest (...)
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14 February 2018
The Construction Saga of Rostov Reactors 3 and 4
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, 14 February 2018 In the following timeline, the World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
) rebuilds some of the 35-year long construction history of the Rostov reactors 3 and 4. Started in the Soviet Union in 1983 and completed in the Russian Federation in 2018, the site repeatedly changed names and “official” construction-start dates. The
WNISR
documents the somewhat confusing, eventful communication history of these nuclear construction projects. See also “35 Years After (...)
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Essential News –
27 December 2014
Russian Reactor Rostov-3 Finally Generating Power
Russian Reactor Rostov-3 Connected to the Grid Russian news agency
TASS
reported that the Rostov-3, located near the city of Volgodonsk, was connected to the national electricity grid for the first time on 27 December 2014. Construction, which originally started in 1983 and had been interrupted several times, took over 31 years. Startup of the
VVER
-1000 pressurized water reactor was delayed numerous times. It is all the more surprising that builder/operator Rosatom told
TASS
that the unit (...)