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2 March 2016
Takahama‑4 Reactor Fails Grid Connection in Japan
Takahama-4 Fails Grid Connection in Japan 2 March 2016 After a nearly five-year-long outage, Takahama-4 reactor failed to connect to the grid as planned on 29 February 2016. Only three other units have been restarted in Japan after all nuclear plants had progressively been shut down following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Located in Fukui prefecture in the Chubu region of Japan, the 32-year-old Takahama-4 reactor, owned by Kansai Electric Power Company, was restarted on 26 February 2016, (...)
30 January 2016
Third Reactor Restarted in Japan—Takahama‑3 Restarted/Connected to the Grid
Third Reactor Restarted in Japan—Takahama-3 Restarted/Connected to the Grid 30 January 2016, updated/corrected on 1 February 2016 After nearly four years of outage, the Takahama-3 reactor, located in Fukui Prefecture in the Chubu region of Japan, was restarted on 29 January and connected to the grid on 1 February 2016. The same day operation restarted at unit 3, owner Kansai Electric Power Company (
KEPCO
) began loading fuel into the Takahama-4 reactor, with plans to restart not before late (...)
20 January 2016
Shin Kori‑3 Connected to the South Korean Grid
Shin Kori-3 Connected to the South Korean Grid 20 January 2016 The Shin Kori-3, located at Gori in the city district of Busan in the south east of the Republic of Korea, was connected to the grid on 15 January 2016, two years later than planned. The Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (
KHNP
) owned reactor is the first
APR1400
(Advanced Pressurized Reactor) design to begin operation and the nations 25
th
commercial reactor.
KHNP
applied for an operational license for Shin Kori-3 in 2011, with (...)
4 January 2016
UPDATE1
: World Nuclear Industry Status as of 1 January 2016: Mind the China Effect
Paris. 4 January 2016—
UPDATE
5 January 2016 In 2015, a total of ten new nuclear reactors were connected to the world’s grids, more than in any year since 1990. Two reactors were closed, Grafenrheinfeld in Germany and Wylfa in the United Kingdom. As of 1 January 2016, a total of 398 reactors—eight more than a year ago, but 40 less than in 2002—were operating in 31 countries. Two reactors, Sendai-1 and -2, were restarted in Japan, the first since the country was shaken by the triple disaster (...)
2 January 2016
Two More Construction Starts in China: Fangchenggang‑3 and Tianwan‑5
Two More Construction Starts in China: Fangchenggang-3 and Tianwan-5 2 January 2016 The Chinese nuclear industry squeezed three construction starts into the last month of 2015. After Fuquing-6, Fangchenggang-3 and Tianwan-5 got underway. This brings the number of new Chinese projects to six in the year 2015 and the total number of reactors under construction to 24. Thirty-one units are already in operation. Construction began on the Fangchenggang unit 3 reactor with the start of pouring (...)
24 December 2015
Construction Start at Fuqing Unit 6 in China
Construction Start at Fuqing Unit Six 24 December 2015 Construction began 22 December 2015 with the laying of basemat concrete on the second Hualong One reactor at the Fuqing site, in Fujian province in south east China. Construction of the first Hualong One reactor began in May 2015, also at the Fuqing site. The Fuqing nuclear power plant project is owned by China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
) subsidiary China Nuclear Power Company (51%), Huadian Fuxin Energy Company (39%) and Fujian (...)
11 November 2015
Changjiang Unit 1 on Chinese Hainan Island Connected to the Grid
Changjiang Unit 1 on Chinese Hainan Island Connected to Grid 10 November 2015 Grid connection took place on 7 November 2015 of the Generation
II
Changjiang Pressurized Water Reactor on the southern island of Hainan. The reactor project at Changjiang is a joint venture between the China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
) and China Huaneng Group, with shares split 51% and 49%, respectively. The
CNP
-600 reactor is a successor to the
CNP
300, China’s first indigenously designed and built reactor. (...)
27 October 2015
Fangchenggang‑1: 30
th
Unit Connected to the Chinese Grid
Fangchenggang-1: 30
th
Unit Connected to the Chinese Grid The Fangchenggang Unit 1 reactor was connected to the grid on 25 October 2015, plant operator China General Nuclear (
CGN
) announced. The Fangchenggang site is located on the Qisha peninsula in Guangxi province, 45 km from the Vietnam border. Criticality of Unit 1 was achieved on 13 October 2015. A total of six reactors are planned for the site, with units 1 and 2 of the
CPR
-1000 design, units 3 and 4 of the
ACP
-1000 design (also called (...)
22 October 2015
Early Reactor Closures in the
U.S.
and Sweden vs. Startups in China and Japan
Early Reactor Closures in the
U.S.
and Sweden vs. Startups in China and Japan 22 October 2015 This past week has seen a series of announcements of early reactor closures in the United States and in Sweden, while China started a new unit at Yanjiang (see “Yangjiang-3 Grid Connection in China”) and Japan connected a second reactor at the Sendai site to the grid. The remaining 38 Japanese reactors remain in Long-Term Outage (
LTO
). Entergy stated in a press release that it will close its Pilgrim (...)
22 October 2015
Second Reactor Restarts in Japan
Second Reactor Restarts in Japan Thursday, 22 October 2015 The second Japanese nuclear reactor to generate power in nearly two years was connected to the grid on 21 October 2015. The thirty-year old Sendai-2 reactor, owned by Kyushu Electric Power Company and located in Kagoshima prefecture in southern Japan, was shut down in September 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi accident. Control rods were removed to begin operation on 15 October 2015. Kyushu Electric plans to progressively raise (...)
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