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26 March 2018 Japan: Genkai‑3 Restarted After 7‑Year Outage Japan: Genkai-3 Restarted After 8-Year Outage WNISR, 26 March 2018 Genkai-3 was reconnected to the grid 25 March 2018, more than seven years after it shut down in December 2010. The 1180 MWe Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), owned by the Kyushu Electric Power Company, is located in Genkai town, Saga Prefecture in southern Kyushu. Restart of the Genkai reactor had been delayed by two months due to the Kobe Steel scandal, where parts supplied to Kyushu Electric were required to be checked prior (...)
17 March 2018 Japan: Ohi‑3 Restarted After 4.5‑Year Outage Japan: Ohi-3 Restarted After 4.5-Year Outage WNISR, 17 March 2018 On 16 March 2018, Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) reconnected its reactor Ohi-3 to the grid, four and a half years after it was shut down on 2 September 2013. KEPCO plans to restart Ohi-4 in mid May 2018. The Ohi nuclear plant has been the subject of multiple lawsuits since its shutdown. KEPCO submitted its applications to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for safety examinations of Ohi-3 and -4 on (...)
12 March 2018 Five Years Late: Grid Connection of First Unit of Leningrad‑II Nuclear Plant in Russia Five Years Late: Grid Connection of First Unit of Leningrad-II Nuclear Plant in Russia WNISR, Monday, 12 March 2018 Russia connected the VVER 1200 series reactor, Leningrad-II unit 1 to the grid, 9 March 2018, ten years after construction start in 2008 and five years later than the original scheduled startup in 2013. It is the second Rosatom VVER 1200 to enter service, following the Novovoronezh-6 grid connection on 5 August 2016. The Leningrad plant, is located at Sosnovy Bor, in northwest (...)
14 February 2018 The Construction Saga of Rostov Reactors 3 and 4 WNISR, 14 February 2018 In the following timeline, the World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) rebuilds some of the 35-year long construction history of the Rostov reactors 3 and 4. Started in the Soviet Union in 1983 and completed in the Russian Federation in 2018, the site repeatedly changed names and “official” construction-start dates. The WNISR documents the somewhat confusing, eventful communication history of these nuclear construction projects. See also “35 Years After (...)
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 (...)

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