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27 December 2019 48‑Year‑Old Swiss Reactor Mühleberg Closed WNISR, 27 December 2019 After 48 years in operation, the Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant (KKM) in Switzerland was closed on 20 December 2019. This leaves the country with four operating reactors. As reported in WNISR2019, in October 2013, Mühleberg operator BKW announced that it would close the 373 MW Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) in 2019, due to “indefinable and unquantifiable… technical, economic and political uncertainties [that] could increase the economic risks of long-term operation.” (…)
8 December 2019 US Reactors Threatened by Sea‑Level Rise Granted 80‑Year Operating License WNISR, 8 December 2019 For the first time in the history of nuclear power, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on 4 December 2019 granted two commercial nuclear reactors, Turkey Point units 3&4, a second 20-year license extension permitting them to operate until they are 80 years old. The Turkey Point reactors, located 30 km south of Miami, Florida, and operated by Florida Power & Light (FPL), were connected to the grid on 2 November 1972 and 21 June 1973 respectively (…)
14 November 2019 Iran: Construction Restart of Busheer‑2 Iran: Construction Restart of Bushehr-2 WNISR, 14 November 2019 Basemat concrete for the reactor building has been poured, usually representing the official construction start, at the Bushehr unit 2 reactor as of 10 November 2019, according to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). Excavation for that foundation of the unit started on 31 October 2017. However, originally, construction had started in 1976. The site also hosts the Bushehr-1 reactor, where construction had (…)
19 October 2019 China: First Commercial Reactor Construction‑Start in Three Years China: First Commercial Reactor Construction-Start in Three Years WNISR, 18 October 2019 China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), on 16 October 2019, announced the construction start of Zhangzhou-1, a Hualong or HPR-1000 design. Phase 1 of the project at Zhangzhou, located in south east China’s Fuijan province, was originally planned to be based on two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors. However, as reported by Reuters, citing a Chinese energy academic, “the problem with AP1000—the delays, (…)
24 September 2019 Three Mile Island‑1 Closed at Age 45 WNISR, 22 September 2019 The Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 1 was closed on 20 September 2019, the plant owner Exelon Corp. announced. The 45-year old 819 MW Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), located near Middletown in Pennsylvania was connected to the grid on 19 June 1974. The closure brought to an end nuclear generation at the site where Unit 2 in 1979 suffered a partial core-melt accident. “Today we celebrate the proud legacy of TMI Unit 1 and the thousands of employees who shared our (…)
24 September 2019 Closure of Chin Shan‑2 Ends Operations at Taiwan’s First Nuclear Power Plant WNISR, 22 September 2019 The Chin Shan-2 reactor (also known as Jinshan and First Nuclear Power Plant) was officially closed on 15 July 2019 when its 40-year operating license expired. The reactor, located in Shimen, New Taipei, in northern Taiwan, had remained shut down since June 2017—and thus had been considered by WNISR as in Long-Term Outage (LTO) up until 15 July. The closure of Unit 2 brings to an end electricity generation at Taiwan’s first nuclear power plant, following the (…)
1 July 2019 Second European Pressurized Water Reactor Starts Up… in China WNISR, 30 June 2019 On 28 June 2019, China connected the second European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) at Taishan to the grid. The first unit, Taishan-1, had generated its first power on 29 June 2018. Despite its name, Europe is still waiting for an EPR to come online. One reactor has been under construction at Olkiluoto in Finland since 2005, and another one since 2007 at the Flamanville site in France. Both projects experienced multiple design problems, management failures and quality (…)
4 June 2019 U.S. Pilgrim Nuclear Reactor Closes... 13 Years Before License Expires WNISR, 4 June 2019 On 31 May 2019, Entergy permanently shut down its 668 MW Pilgrim reactor, which was connected to the grid the first time on 19 July 1972. The 47-year old General Electric MK1 Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), located on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, was described by the NRC in 1986 as ’’one of the worst-run’’ nuclear plants in the country. Nearly twenty years later little had apparently changed, with Senator Ed Markey describing the plant has having “one of the worst safety (…)
4 May 2019 Grid Connection of Russian Reactor Novovoronezh‑II‑2 WNISR, 4 May 2019 Russian nuclear builder-operator Rosatom announced the grid connection of the VVER-1200 Novovoronezh-II-2 on 1 May 2019. This is the second nuclear unit to start up in the world after the commissioning of a reactor in South Korea in April 2019. It is the also the second VVER 1200 to begin operation at the site, and the third in Russia following the startup of Novovoronezh-II-1 on 7 August 2016 and the Leningrad-II-1 on 7 March 2018. Construction started on (…)
25 April 2019 First New Reactor Connected to the Grid in the World in 2019, in South Korea WNISR, Thursday, 25 April 2019 Shin Kori-4, located at Gori in the city district of Busan in the south east of the Republic of Korea, was connected to the grid on 22 April 2019, five years later than planned. The Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) owned reactor is the second APR1400 (Advanced Pressurized Reactor) design to begin operation and the nation’s 26^th commercial nuclear reactor. It is the first nuclear reactor to be commissioned in the world after Tianwan-4 started up six (…)

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