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6 January 2022 WNISR Closure of Kursk‑1 in Russia The Kursk-1 reactor was closed on 19 December 2021, to the day 45 years after its first grid connection on 19 December 1976, plant operator Joint Stock Company Concern Rosenergoatom announced. The Chernobyl type, RBMK-925MW reactor was originally scheduled for permanent closure in late 2023 when construction of the new Kursk-II unit 1 was planned to be completed. The Kursk-II project consists of two VVER1200 MW which are the TOI or VVER-V-510 design, construction of which began 29 April 2018 (...)
1 January 2022 WNISR Construction Start at Kudankulam‑6 in India There are now 21 operating nuclear reactors in India and eight under construction. Only three new units were connected to the grid over the past decade, and with an average of 11.5 years, construction times were excessively long. Contributing 40 TWh (billion kWh) in 2020 or 3.3 percent of the national electricity generation, nuclear power’s role remains modest in India, and solar and wind individually produced about 50 percent more electricity than the nuclear plants. WNISR, 31 December 2021 (...)
24 December 2021 WNISR Grid Connection for First High‑Temperature Reactor Module in China WNISR, 24 December 2021 Grid connection for one of the two modules that make up Shidao Bay-1 nuclear plant took place on 20 December 2021. The plant consists of two High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor - Pebble-bed Modules (HTR-PM) located at the Shidaowan site, in the eastern China province of Shandong. Construction start was 9 December 2012 with grid connection originally planned for 2017. The 2 x 100 MW reactors are owned by the China Huaneng Group and operated by the Huaneng Shandong Shidao (...)
19 December 2021 WNISR EDF’s Hunterston B‑1 Reactor in the UK Permanently Closed WNISR, 19 December 2021 Hunterston B-1, a 490 MWe Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR), located on the Ayrshire coast in the west of Scotland, shut down for the last time on 26 November 2021. The 490 MWe reactor, owned by EDF Energy, was connected to the grid on 6 February 1976. The remaining reactor at the site, the 44-year-old Hunterston B-2, is scheduled to be closed in early January 2022, ending nearly 58 years of commercial nuclear operations at the site. The closures will reduce (...)
4 November 2021 WNISR2021 Video & PPT of the WNISR2021 Global Launch The Global Launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021 (WNISR2021) hosted by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington D.C. took place on 28 September 2021 (see video and slides hereunder). The virtual event was co-hosted by the Rural Action and Voices for the Environment (RAVEN) Project, University of New Brunswick, and the Environment & Society Program, St. Thomas University, New Brunswick. Further online events around the WNISR2021 findings were hosted by (...)
22 October 2021 WNISR Pakistan’s Oldest Nuclear Reactor KANUPP‑1... Pakistan’s Oldest Nuclear Reactor KANUPP-1 Closed WNISR, 21 October 2021 Thirty years after first warnings that the reactor was unsafe to continue operating, Pakistan’s first power reactor, KANUPP-1, was closed on 1 August 2021. The 125 MW CANDU heavy water reactor, located in Sind Province and less than 30 km from the city of Karachi on the Arabian Sea, was first connected to the grid on 18 October 1971 and was one of the oldest operating reactors in the world. At an event in Islamabad to (...)
4 October 2021 UBC-Hosted Webinar: 6 October 2021 Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Can Small Modular Reactors Deliver? Join this discussion on nuclear energy and small modular reactors (SMRs), with a focus on their status in Canada, and the climate vulnerability of nuclear plants. The presentations will draw upon the 2021 World Nuclear Industry Status Report. DATE: Wednestday 6 October 2021 TIME: 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM Please RSVP. The Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants in advance of the event. Welcome Remarks: Prajna Singh, Student, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Moderator: Allison (...)
29 June 2021 Second Reactor Grid‑Connection in China in 2021 WNISR, 29 June 2021 Hongyanhe-5 in Dalian, Liaoning province, was connected to the grid for the first time on 25 June 2021. The startup comes with a delay of about one year. It is the second reactor to start up in China and the fourth in the world in 2021 with one unit each generating first power in India and Pakistan. The Hongyanhe site, hosting the first nuclear power plant representing the largest energy investment project in Northeast China, is owned and operated by Liaoning Hongyanhe (...)
10 June 2021 WNISR EDF Energy Closes Two Reactors in the United Kingdom—More to Come WNISR, 10 June 2021 On 7 June 2021, EDF Energy, to the surprise of many, announced that it would not seek to restart the two reactors at its Dungeness B nuclear power plant in Kent, United Kingdom. The Dungeness B nuclear power plant will remain closed. — Photo EDF The station had not operated since September 2018—and was thus considered by WNISR in Long-Term Outage (LTO)—while EDF was “managing a range of unique, significant and ongoing technical challenges”. As recently as October 2020, EDF (...)
10 June 2021 WNISR China Overtook France in Nuclear Power Generation WNISR, 10 June 2021 In 2020, China generated more electricity from nuclear power plants than France and accedes to the second rank, behind the United States, of the largest nuclear energy producers in the world, according to concordant data from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the OECD’s International Energy Agency (IEA) and the respective energy administrations in China and France. However, wind and solar together injected twice as much power into the Chinese grid than (...)

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