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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: (...)
25 March 2022 WNISR Europe’s First EPR: 13 Years Behind Schedule, Olkiluoto‑3 in Finland Starts Up WNISR, 25 March 2022 On 12 March 2022, the first European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) on the European continent was connected to the grid at the Finnish Olkiluoto power plant. The 1600 MW Olkiluoto-3 (OL3) is the third unit at Olkiluoto located on the shore of the Gulf of Bothnia in western Finland. Nearly 17 years since construction start, plant operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) described the grid connection as Finland’s greatest climate act “commissioning of the most powerful nuclear (...)
25 March 2022 WNISR Chinese Built Karachi‑3 Connected to the Grid in Pakistan WNISR, 24 March 2022 The 1100-MW Karachi-3 reactor, located on the Arabian Sea, Sindh province in southern Pakistan, was connected to the grid on 4 March 2022. The reactor, also called KANUPP-3, is a Hualong One or ACP-1000, supplied by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) on a turnkey basis. Constructon of Karachi-3 began on 31 May 2016. It will be operated by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Corporation (PAEC). The Hualong One reactor design is derived mainly from the 900 MW reactors (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
23 January 2022 WNISR — National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies / Renewable Energy Institute Virtual Event (PPT & Video): WNISR2021—New Findings and Implications for Japan Video recording (1h and 45min), program, and slides of the Japan Launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021 (WNISR2021) co-hosted by the Renewable Energy Institute and the Global Health Innovation Policy Program of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, both in Tokyo, Japan, on 19 January 2022. The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021 (WNISR2021) has been elaborated by an international team of 13 interdisciplinary experts from seven countries. WNISR2021 has (...)
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 (...)
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. (...)
7 January 2022 WNISR EDF Energy Closes Hunterston B‑2 Reactor in the UK WNISR, 7 January 2022 Hunterston B-2, a 495 MWe Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) was shut down for the last time around noon on 7 January 2022. The reactor, located on the Ayrshire coast in the west of Scotland and owned by Électricité de France (EDF) subsidiary EDF Energy, was connected to the grid on 31 March 1977, four years later than planned. Following the closure of Hunterston B-1 on 26 November 2021, it brings to an end nearly 58 years of commercial nuclear operations at the site, and (...)
6 January 2022 WNISR Closure of Kursk‑1 in Russia The Kursk-1 reactor was closed on 19 December 2021, to the day 45 years after its first grid connection on 19 December 1976, plant operator Joint Stock Company Concern Rosenergoatom announced. The Chernobyl type, RBMK-925MW reactor was originally scheduled for permanent closure in late 2023 when construction of the new Kursk-II unit 1 was planned to be completed. The Kursk-II project consists of two VVER1200 MW which are the TOI or VVER-V-510 design, construction of which began 29 April 2018 (...)

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