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2 April 2017
Westinghouse: Origins and Effects of the Downfall of a Nuclear Giant
On 29 March 2017, Westinghouse Electric Company, a subsidiary of Japanese company Toshiba and the largest historic builder of nuclear power plants in the world, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the
U.S.
Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The insolvency has resulted from a number of factors, most importantly, the massive cost increases and time delays at the two projects in Georgia and South Carolina. As Westinghouse’s website puts it somewhat more discreetly, (...)
29 March 2017
Japan: Court Overturns Injunction Against Operation of Takahama‑3 and 4
Japan: Court Overturns Injunction Against Operation of Takahama-3 and 4 29 March 2017 On 28 March 2017, the Osaka High Court in western Japan overturned an injunction against operation of the Takahama-3 and -4 reactors, clearing the way for the restart of the two units owned by Kansai Electric Power Co. (
KEPCO
). Both reactors were ordered shutdown in a landmark ruling by the Otsu District Court in Shiga prefecture on 9 March 2016 filed by 29 citizens of the prefecture, which borders Fukui (...)
2 February 2017
Toshiba‑Westinghouse: The End of New‑build for the Largest Historic Nuclear Builder
Toshiba-Westinghouse: The End of New-build for the Largest Historic Nuclear Builder On 28 January 2017, Japanese media reported that Toshiba will not take any new nuclear reactor orders, “a move that would effectively mark its withdrawal from the nuclear plant construction business”. Toshiba, owner of Westinghouse—no other company built more nuclear plants in the world— “will focus on maintenance and decommissioning operations”. Three days later, on 31 January 2017, the Wall Street Journal (...)
14 January 2017
China: First Grid Connection Worldwide of Reactor With Post‑3/11 Construction Start
China: First Grid Connection Worldwide of Reactor With Post-3/11 Construction Start Grid connection of Yangjiang unit 4, located at Dongping Town, Yangjiang City in western Guangdong Province, took place on 8 January 2017, according to plant owner China General Nuclear Power Corp. (
CGN
). Construction start of the unit 4, which is a
CPR
-1000 design with a nominal capacity of 1086 MWe, began on 17 November 2012. Yanjiang-4 is the first reactor in the world to start up, which began construction (...)
9 January 2017
WNISR
+ Visionscarto: Interactive Nuclear Construction Visualization Launched!
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
) team is proud to announce the launch of a fully interactive visualization on nuclear power reactor construction. How many of the 55 reactors currently under construction in the world are behind schedule? Which 13 countries are building nuclear power plants? Who are the technology providers? How long did it take for a specific reactor to be connected to the grid? For how long were the 90 units actually under construction before they were (...)
Mycle Schneider,
9 January 2017
World Nuclear Industry Status as of 1 January 2017
The year 2016 was particularly rich in “nuclear news,” with a significant number of new reactors commissioned, the political go-ahead for the emblematic Hinkley Point C project in the U.K., French government rescue attempts for the technically bankrupt, quality-control-scandal-shaken global nuclear champion
AREVA
, the Toshiba-Westinghouse debacle, and many other events that will be scrutinized, as usual, in the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
) to be released in late summer (...)
1 January 2017
Permanent Closure of 45 Year Old Russian Reactor Novovoronezh‑3
Permanent Closure of 45 Year Old Russian Reactor Novovoronezh-3 The permanent closure of the forty-five year old unit 3 of the Novovoronezh was announced by plant operator Rosenergoatom on 25 December 2016. Work for a fifteen-year life-extension had been completed in 2002. The
VVER
V-179 reactor, more commonly known as
VVER440
with a capacity of 417
MW
, is located on the River Don, in the Voronezh Oblast in central Russia. Novovoronezh-3 was first connected to the grid on 27 December 1971. (...)
31 December 2016
Fangchenggang‑4 Construction Start in China
Fangchenggang-4 Construction Start in China The China General Nuclear Corporation (
CGN
) began construction of unit 4 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant on 23 December 2016, with the start of pouring of the basemat concrete. The Fangchenggang project will have three reactor designs at the site: Units 1&2 being
CPR
-1000; Units 3&4 being the
HPR
-1000 or Hualong One design; Units 5&6 are planned to be Westinghouse AP1000s. Unit 3 construction began in January 2016. Located (...)
23 December 2016
Japanese Government Pulls the Plug on Fast Breeder Reactor Monju
Japanese Government Pulls the Plug on Fast Breeder Reactor Monju The Japanese government formally announced on 21 December 2016 its decision to permanently shut down the 280 MWe Prototype Monju sodium cooled Fast Breeder Reactor (
FBR
). The reactor, located at Tsuruga in Fukui Prefecture, western Japan, and owned by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (
JAEA
), was a central element in the nations plutonium fuel system program, and was intended to form the basis for commercial deployment of fast (...)
11 November 2016
Chasnupp‑3 Connected to the Grid in Pakistan
Chasnupp-3 Connected to the Grid in Pakistan 11 November 2016, Updated 10 January 2017 On 15 October 2016, unit 3 of Pakistan’s Chasnupp (Chashma Nuclear Power Plant) was connected to the grid. The reactor had become critical on 1 August 2016. According to International Atomic Energy Agency (
IAEA
) data, the project represented the first construction start anywhere in the world after Fukushima was triggered in March 2011 and would have made it also the first reactor, whose construction had begun (...)
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