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6 November 2020 WNISR Grid Connection of Belarus’s Controversial First Nuclear Power Reactor WNISR, 6 November 2020 Ostrovets-1, the first nuclear power reactor in Belarus, was connected to the grid on 3 November 2020. Announcing the operation, Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev said, “The first kilowatt-hours of electric energy delivered by the Belarus NPP [Nuclear Power Plant] to the unified power grid system is a landmark to manifest the beginning of the nuclear age for the Republic of Belarus.” This is the fourth startup of a nuclear power plant in the world in 2020, (…)
27 October 2020 WNISR Nuclear Reactor Startup in Russia Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant - Photo Rosatom WNISR, 27 October 2020 Grid connection of Leningrad-2 unit 2 took place on 23 October 2020. This is the third reactor startup in the world this year following grid connections in China and the United Arab Emirates in August 2020, while four units were closed so far (two each in France and in the U.S.). The reactor, also known as Leningrad-6, is located at Sosnovy Bor in Western Russia and follows grid connection of Leningrad-2 unit 1 on 7 (…)
7 September 2020 WNISR Second Nuclear Construction Start in 2020 in the World—in China WNISR, 7 September 2020 Construction has begun of the Zhangzhou-2, a Hualong One or HPR-1000 design reactor with the pouring of basemat concrete on 4 September 2020, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). It is the second unit at the site following the construction start of Zhangzhou-1 on 16 October 2019. It is also the second construction start in the world after Akkuyu-2 in Turkey earlier in the year. The plant is owned by CNNC-Guodian Zhangzhou Energy Company, (…)
26 August 2020 WNISR Storm Damage Prompts Early Closure of Duane Arnold Nuclear Reactor in the U.S. WNISR, 26 August 2020 As a result of storm damage incurred on 10 August 2020, the 622 MW Duane Arnold-1 reactor will not return to service and will instead be permanently closed, the plant’s majority owner, NextEra Energy Resources announced 25 August 2020. It was previously scheduled for closure on 30 October 2020. This is the second reactor closure in the U.S. and the fourth in the world since the beginning of 2020, with Indian Point-2 shuttered in the U.S. and Fessenheim-1 and -2 in (…)
21 August 2020 Barakah, UAE: Grid Connection of First Commercial Reactor in the Arab World WNISR 21 August 2020 Barakah-1, the first commercial nuclear reactor in the Arab world In a significant milestone for the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first commercial nuclear reactor, Barakah-1, was connected to the grid on 19 August 2020. It is the first commercial nuclear reactor to begin operations in the Arab world and the first in the Middle East since Iran’s Busheer-1 started up on 3 September 2011. Completion of construction of Barakah-2 was announced on 14 July (…)
13 August 2020 First Reactor Grid Connection in the World in 2020—in China WNISR, 13 August 2020 The Tianwan reactor unit 5 was connected to the grid on 8 August 2020. Built and operated by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), commercial operation is scheduled for December this year. Tianwan is the first reactor to be connected to the grid in the world in 2020, and it is located in Jiangsu province on the Yellow Sea, eastern China. The one startup wordwide compares with three reactor closures (two in France, one in the U.S.) during the year so far. (…)
30 April 2020 Closure of 47‑Year‑Old Indian Point Reactor Near New York City Closure of 47-Year-Old Indian Point Reactor Near New York City WNISR, 30 April 2020 Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant - New York - Photo Entergy Just short of 47 years after commencing operations, the Indian Point Unit 2 reactor is closing today, 30 April 2020. Located on the Hudson River, 48 km from Manhattan, New York, the PWR was taken off the grid under the terms of an unusual 9 January 2017 agreement between the nuclear plant owner Entergy, non-governmental organization Riverkeeper (…)
18 March 2020 WNISR Strangely Belated Announcement of Hinkley Point C‑2 Construction Start Strangely Belated Announcement of Hinkley Point C-2 Construction Start EDF Energy continues to distort definitions of construction time WNISR, 18 March 2020 On 10 December 2019, formal construction began on the second European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) at Hinkley Point C (HPC-2) in the U.K., according to an email by EDF Energy spokesperson Gordon Bell, dated 16 March 2020. According to an internationally accepted definition by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and (…)
Mycle Schneider, 29 February 2020 WNISR (Updated 18 March 2020) World Nuclear Reactor Status as of 1 January 2020 (with dataviz) Operating fleet and construction apparently stable 2019 for Global Nuclear Power in a Nutshell Six reactor startups (7 less than scheduled), 5 closures, 5 construction starts (+ one construction restart). Three new reactors entered Long-Term Outage, 2 were restarted, 2 were closed. Globally, 415 reactors are operating (as one year ago), 49 are under construction. Three countries started up new reactors in 2019, Russia added three, China two and South Korea one. The total of six new startups compares with 13 units scheduled for grid (…)
27 December 2019 WNISR Russia Connects World’s First Floating Mini Nuclear Power Plant to Grid WNISR, 27 December 2019 The world’s first floating nuclear power plant was connected to the grid on 19 December 2019. The Akademik Lomonosov, with two reactors of the KLT-40S design, began generating electricity for the Chaun-Bilibino network in Pevek, on the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia’s east Arctic. It remains unclear, however, whether both reactors were connected to the grid and when. Rosatom’s Director General Alexey Likhachev stated on the day of “grid connection” that, “Akademik (…)

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