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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 (…)
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 (…)
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. (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)

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