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24 July 2022 WNISR Akkuyu‑4 in Turkey: Second Construction Start in a Week for the Russian Nuclear Industry—Anyways 4 WNISR, 24 July 2022 On 21 July 2022, Akkuyu Nuclear announced that first concrete was poured for the base slab of the reactor building of Unit 4 of the Turkish Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, marking the official construction start. The Akkuyu project is based on a series of agreements signed between the Russian and Turkish Governments in May 2010 which provide for the construction of four Russian-designed VVER1200 reactors (Generation III+) for a total capacity of 4.8 GW at the Akkuyu site (...)
21 July 2022 WNISR Russia’s Rosatom Starts Building Egypt’s First Nuclear Reactor—Anyways 3 WNISR, 20 July 2022 Construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant has officially started on 20 July 2022 at El-Dabaa city, governorate of Matrouh. The VVER-1200 reactor of Russian design is the first of four such units to be built by Rosatom at the El-Dabaa site, located on the north-west coast of Egypt, by the Mediterranean Sea. Egypt’s nuclear ambitions stem back to the mid-1950s, and the Dabaa site was first selected to host a nuclear facility in the early 1980s. The latest attempts to (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
15 June 2022 WNISR South Korea Starts Up a Long‑Delayed Nuclear Reactor WNISR, 14 June 2022 On 9 June 2022, the South Korean nuclear utility Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced the first grid connection of Shin-Hanul-1. The nuclear plant is located in Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province, and this is the second reactor to start up in South Korea in five years. Construction of the 1340-MW Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) of the APR-1400 design started ten years ago on 10 July 2012 and first electricity generation was originally scheduled for 2017. Thus (...)
21 May 2022 WNISR Palisades Reactor in the US Closes Nine Years Early On 20 May 2022, US utility Entergy permanently closed its Palisades nuclear reactor, almost nine years before its operating license runs out. The 50-year-old Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) located in Southwest Michigan was connected to the grid on 31 December 1971. In 2007, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) granted a 20-year lifetime extension to 60 years and the unit had a license to operate until 24 March 2031. The 805-MW Combustian Engineering unit was closed 10 days earlier than (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)

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