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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 WNISR, 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 (...)
24 September 2019 Three Mile Island‑1 Closed at Age 45 WNISR, 22 September 2019 The Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 1 was closed on 20 September 2019, the plant owner Exelon Corp. announced. The 45-year old 819 MW Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), located near Middletown in Pennsylvania was connected to the grid on 19 June 1974. The closure brought to an end nuclear generation at the site where Unit 2 in 1979 suffered a partial core-melt accident. “Today we celebrate the proud legacy of TMI Unit 1 and the thousands of employees who shared our commitment (...)
24 September 2019 Closure of Chin Shan‑2 Ends Operations at Taiwan’s First Nuclear Power Plant WNISR, 22 September 2019 The Chin Shan-2 reactor (also known as Jinshan and First Nuclear Power Plant) was officially closed on 15 July 2019 when its 40-year operating license expired. The reactor, located in Shimen, New Taipei, in northern Taiwan, had remained shut down since June 2017—and thus had been considered by WNISR as in Long-Term Outage (LTO) up until 15 July. The closure of Unit 2 brings to an end electricity generation at Taiwan’s first nuclear power plant, following the closure of (...)
1 July 2019 Second European Pressurized Water Reactor Starts Up… in China WNISR, 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 (...)
4 June 2019 U.S. Pilgrim Nuclear Reactor Closes... 13 Years Before License Expires WNISR, 4 June 2019 On 31 May 2019, Entergy permanently shut down its 668 MW Pilgrim reactor, which was connected to the grid the first time on 19 July 1972. The 47-year old General Electric MK1 Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), located on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, was described by the NRC in 1986 as ’’one of the worst-run’’ nuclear plants in the country. Nearly twenty years later little had apparently changed, with Senator Ed Markey describing the plant has having “one of the worst safety records (...)
4 May 2019 Grid Connection of Russian Reactor Novovoronezh‑II‑2 WNISR, 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, (...)
25 April 2019 First New Reactor Connected to the Grid in the World in 2019, in South Korea WNISR, Thursday, 25 April 2019 Shin Kori-4, located at Gori in the city district of Busan in the south east of the Republic of Korea, was connected to the grid on 22 April 2019, five years later than planned. The Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) owned reactor is the second APR1400 (Advanced Pressurized Reactor) design to begin operation and the nation’s 26^th commercial nuclear reactor. It is the first nuclear reactor to be commissioned in the world after Tianwan-4 started up six months (...)
16 April 2019 First Reactor Construction Start in the World in 2019, in Russia WNISR, 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 (...)
Mycle Schneider, 30 January 2019 [Updated] World Nuclear Industry Status as of 1 January 2019 Operating fleet increases by ten—Construction drops to decadal low [Updated on 30 January 2019] 2018 for global nuclear power in a nutshell 9 reactor startups (8 less than scheduled), 7 closure decisions, 5 construction starts. Two new reactors entered Long-Term Outage, and 7 were restarted. Globally, 415 reactors are operating (10 more than a year ago), 49 are under construction (lowest in a decade). China dominates world nuclear statistics, as in previous years. Only two countries have started up new reactors in 2018, China connected seven and Russia (...)
29 December 2018 The Oddly Discreet Construction Start of Hinkley Point C WNISR, 29 December 2018 EDF Energy announced on 11 December 2018 the completion of the first part of the concrete pouring for the base slab for unit 1 of the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant. Four more pours of concrete will be required before the so-called “raft” that supports the reactor building will be complete, work is expected to be concluded in 2019. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) definition, the official “construction start”, is “the date when first (...)

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