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30 August 2016
Kudankulam‑2 Connected to the Indian Grid
Kudankulam-2 Connected to the Indian Grid
WNISR
, 29 August 2016 On 29 August 2016, the second unit of Kudankulam was connected to the grid in India. The reactor had attained criticality on 10 July 2016, eight years later than planned when construction started. Kudankulam is a twin
VVER
-1000 nuclear power plant imported from Russia. The first unit started operating in October 2013 (see
WNISR
, “Controversial Reactor Starts Operation at Kudankulam in India”). Kudankulam is one of those (...)
17 August 2016
Ikata‑3 Restarted—Only Three Reactors Operate in Japan
Ikata-3 Restarted—Only Three Reactors Operate in Japan 17 August 2016 On 15 August 2016, unit 3 of the Ikata nuclear power plant in the Ehime Prefecture, Japan, was reconnected to the grid. The 846
MW
Pressurized Water Reactor (
PWR
) had been offline for over five years—it was shut down on 29 April 2011, following the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe. Operator Shikoku Electric Power Company had received the operating approval by the Nuclear Regulation Authority (
NRA
), according to new, (...)
7 August 2016
Novovoronezh‑6, First Russian Generation
III
Reactor Connected to the Grid
Novovoronezh-6, First Russian Generation
III
Reactor Connected to the Grid Paris, 7 August 2016 Russian nuclear builder-operator Rosatom announced the grid connection of what it declares to be the first operating Generation
III
+ reactor in the world (see What is a Generation
III
+?). The
VVER
-1200 Novovoronezh-6 generated its first electricity on 5 August 2016, with a delay of four years. Construction started on 24 June 2008 and commercial operation was planned for the end of 2012. (...)
21 July 2016
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Reactor Connected to Chinese Grid – Fangchenggang‑2
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Reactor Connected to Chinese Grid—Fangchenggang-2 Unit 2 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China’s Guangxi province started supplying electricity to the grid on 15 July 2016, according to plant owner China General Nuclear (
CGN
). The
CPR
-1000 designed reactor was under construction since December 2010. Fangchenggang Unit 1 was connected to the grid on 25 October 2015. Located on the Qisha peninsula in Guangxi province, 45 km from the Vietnamese border, a total of six (...)
21 June 2016
Changjiang‑2 on China’s Hainan Island Connected to the Grid
Changjiang-2 on China’s Hainan Island Connected to the Grid Monday, 21 June 2016 Grid connection took place on 20 June 2016 of the Changjiang-2 Generation
II
Changjiang Pressurized Water Reactor (
PWR
) on the Chinese southern island of Hainan. The reactor started up with a delay of about four months compared to the target date one year ago. When construction started in November 2010, the objective was a startup in 2015 (no month indicated at the time). While the overall delay is limited (...)
8 June 2016
Watts Bar‑2 (
US
): Grid Connection 43 Years After Construction Start—Shutdown 2 Days Later
Watts Bar-2 (
US
): Grid Connection 43 Years After Construction Start—Shutdown 2 Days Later 8 June 2016 More than four decades after construction began, the Watts Bar-2 reactor was finally connected to the grid on 3 June 2016. However, two days later, while operating at 12.5 percent power, the reactor automatically shut down. According to the
U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (
NRC
), the reactor tripped when a high pressure turbine valve failed to open. As of 8 June 2016, the reactor (...)
2 April 2016
Ningde‑4 and Hongyanhe‑4 Connected to China’s Power Grid
Ningde-4 and Hongyanhe-4 Connected to China’s Power Grid Within three days, China connected its first two nuclear units in 2016 to the grid. More are scheduled to follow. The fourth
CPR
-1000 reactor at the Ningde nuclear power plant started generating power on 29 March 2016. Hongyanhe-4, also a
CPR
-1000, followed on 1 April. As reported by
WNISR
, there are significant safety concerns over the aged design of the
CPR
-1000. China General Nuclear (
CGN
) is involved in both projects. The (...)
26 March 2016
Permanent Closure of Japanese Reactor Ikata‑1
Permanent Closure of Japanese Reactor Ikata-1 On 25 March 2016, the Shikoku Electric Power Company took the decision to permanently shut down the Ikata-1 nuclear reactor. Since April 2015, six reactors in Japan have now been announced for retirement. The 566
MW
unit, which began operation in 1977, had been shut down since September 2011. The utility has been assessing the financial implications of upgrading the reactor including the installation of fireproofing power cabling, with total (...)
2 March 2016
Takahama‑4 Reactor Fails Grid Connection in Japan
Takahama-4 Fails Grid Connection in Japan 2 March 2016 After a nearly five-year-long outage, Takahama-4 reactor failed to connect to the grid as planned on 29 February 2016. Only three other units have been restarted in Japan after all nuclear plants had progressively been shut down following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Located in Fukui prefecture in the Chubu region of Japan, the 32-year-old Takahama-4 reactor, owned by Kansai Electric Power Company, was restarted on 26 February (...)
30 January 2016
Third Reactor Restarted in Japan—Takahama‑3 Restarted/Connected to the Grid
Third Reactor Restarted in Japan—Takahama-3 Restarted/Connected to the Grid 30 January 2016, updated/corrected on 1 February 2016 After nearly four years of outage, the Takahama-3 reactor, located in Fukui Prefecture in the Chubu region of Japan, was restarted on 29 January and connected to the grid on 1 February 2016. The same day operation restarted at unit 3, owner Kansai Electric Power Company (
KEPCO
) began loading fuel into the Takahama-4 reactor, with plans to restart not before (...)
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