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8 February 2018
35 Years After Construction Start Rostov‑4 Reactor Connected to Russian Electricity Grid
35 Years After Construction Start Rostov-4 Reactor Connected to Russian Electricity Grid
WNISR
, 8 February 2018 On 1 February 2018, the 1000 MWe
VVER
, Rostov-4 was connected to the Russian electricity grid. The Rostov plant is located on the Tsimlyansk reservoir in the lower stream of the Don River near the city of Volgodonsk, in Russian Southern Federal District. Startup of the reactor brings to completion a four reactor project at the Rostov site where construction began 35 years ago, on (...)
Mycle Schneider,
9 January 2018
World Nuclear Industry Status as of 1 January 2018
The Year 2017 for Global Nuclear Power in a nutshell: 4 reactor startups (12 less than scheduled), 3 shutdowns, 4 construction starts, 2 abandoned constructions, bankruptcy of Westinghouse, bailout and breakup of
AREVA
, significant financial and economic pressure on nuclear operators. Five new reactors entered long-term outage, and 3 were restarted. Globally, 405 reactors operating (1 less than a year ago), 52 under construction (3 less). After ten reactor startups in both 2016 and 2015, only (...)
2 December 2017
Construction Start at First Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh
Construction Start at First Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh
WNISR
, 2 December 2017 Bangladesh has started construction of its first nuclear reactor at Rooppur in Pabna District on the river Ganges, 140 km west of the country’s capital Dhaka. The first base mat concreting of the Rosatom supplied
VVER
-1200 began on 30 November 2017. Two of these 1200
MW
reactors are planned for the site operated by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (
BAEC
).
JSC
AtomStroyExport (
ASE
), a subsidiary of (...)
2 August 2017
Utilities Abandon
V. C.
Summer
AP1000
Reactor Construction Following Westinghouse Bankruptcy
Utilities Abandon
V. C.
Summer
AP1000
Reactor Construction Following Westinghouse Bankruptcy
WNISR
, 1 August 2017 On 31 July 2017, Santee Cooper (formally, the South Carolina Public Service Authority) and
SCANA
Corporation announced that they were halting construction of the
V. C.
Summer project in Jenkinsville, South Carolina. The two entities hold 45 percent and 55 percent stakes of the project respectively. The following day, on 1 August 2017,
SCANA
executives briefed the state’s Public (...)
6 July 2017
Grid Connection of Chasnupp‑4 in Pakistan
Grid Connection of Chasnupp-4 in Pakistan World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
), 5 July 2017 On 29 June 2017, the 4
th
unit at the Chasnupp (Chashma Nuclear Power Plant) in Pakistan was connected to the grid. Construction started at the Chinese designed reactor in December 2011 and follows a similar project completion, unit 3, in 2016. This is the 5
th
nuclear reactor in Pakistan. In 2016, nuclear supplied just 4 percent of the country’s electricity. Chasnupp-4 is only the second (...)
30 June 2017
First Construction Start in the World in 2017: Kudankulam‑3 in India
First Construction Start Worldwide in 2017: Kudankulam-3 in India World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
), 30 June 2017 On 29 June 2017, the Russian consortium Rosatom announced the official construction start with the concreting of the base slab for the Kudankulam-3 reactor building in India. The construction of the
VVER1000
is scheduled to be completed in just over six years (73 months), according to media reports. An agreement on the extension of a Russian state loan for the (...)
21 June 2017
Sweden Retires First Commercial Nuclear Reactor (Oskarshamn‑1)
Sweden Retires First Commercial Nuclear Reactor (Oskarshamn-1) World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
), 20 June 2017 On 17 June 2017, the oldest Swedish nuclear reactor Oskarshamn-1 (O1) generated its last kilowatthour. After an “operational disturbance” that led to an automatic shutdown, operator-owner
OKG
decided on 19 June 2017 to keep the unit off-line. In 2015, the owner scheduled the reactor to close on 29 June 2017 and with only ten days left to go,
OKG
decided, it was not worthwhile (...)
19 June 2017
South Korea Marks Nuclear Policy Turn by Shutting Down Oldest Reactor
South Korea Marks Nuclear Policy Turn by Shutting Down Oldest Reactor World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
), 19 June 2017 The Kori-1 reactor in Gijang County north of the city of Busan was disconnected from the power grid on 18 June 2017, exactly forty years after it started generating electricity, on 19 June 1977. Operated by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (
KHNP
), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Corporation (
KEPCO
), it becomes the first commercial nuclear (...)
10 June 2017
Fifth Reactor Operating in Japan with Grid Connection of Takahama‑3
Fifth Reactor Operating in Japan with Grid Connection of Takahama-3 World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
), 10 June 1017 The Takahama-3 reactor was connected to the grid on 9 June 2017. The restart of the 33-year old 830
MW
Pressurized Water Reactor (
PWR
), owned by Kansai Electric Power Company (
KEPCO
) and located on Takahama Bay in Fukui Prefecture in western Japan, follows a ruling on 28 March 2017 by the Osaka High Court that overturned an injunction against operation of the (...)
22 May 2017
Takahama‑4 Restart in Japan After Court Injunction Was Overturned
Takahama-4 Restart in Japan After Court Injunction Was Overturned World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
), 22 May 2017 The Takahama-4 reactor was connected to the grid on 22 May 2017. The restart of the 33-year old 880
MW
Pressurized Water Reactor (
PWR
), owned by Kansai Electric Power Company (
KEPCO
) and located on Takahama Bay in Fukui Prefecture in western Japan, follows a ruling on 28 March 2017 by the Osaka High Court that overturned an injunction against operation of the Takahama-3 (...)
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