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1 April 2015
Construction Start on Hongyanhe‑5 in China
Construction Start on Hongyanhe-5 in China 31 March 2015 Construction began 29 March 2015 with the pouring of base mat concrete for the Hongyanhe-5
ACPR
-1000 reactor located near the city of Dalian, Liaoning province, north-east China. Approval for start of construction of new reactor projects was granted by the National Development and Reform Commission (
NDRC
) on 10 March 2015. The approval was the first to be made since the State Council following the Fukushima Daiichi accident decided to (...)
28 March 2015
Fourth New Reactor Connected To Chinese Grid in 2015
Fourth New Reactor Connected To Chinese Grid in 2015 28 March 2015 China started up the fourth new reactor since the beginning of the year and operates now 27 units. Over the past year, the country advanced to rank four in the world for the number of nuclear reactors in operation. Only the United States, France and Russia still operate a larger nuclear fleet. With 22 more units under construction, China will likely soon also catch up with Russia’s 33-reactor fleet. The Hongyanhe-3 reactor, (...)
25 March 2015
Ningde‑3 Reactor Connected to the Chinese Grid
Ningde-3 Connected to the Chinese Grid
WNISR
, 25 March 2015 The third
CPR
-1000 reactor at Ningde, was connected to the grid on 21 March 2015. The Ningde power plant, owned by China General Nuclear (
CGN
), is located on three islands in Fuding city in the northeast of Fujian province on the coast of the Taiwan Straits. As reported by
WNISR
, there are significant safety concerns over the aged design of the
CPR
-1000. There have been delays in start up of Ningde-3, originally scheduled to begin (...)
21 March 2015
Japanese Utilities Confirm Closure of Five Reactors
Japanese Utilities Confirm Closure of Five Reactors March 21, 2015 On 19 March 2015, four of Japan’s nuclear power companies submitted to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (
METI
) their plans for the permanent closure of five nuclear reactors. Officially, this reduces to 43 the number of remaining commercial nuclear reactors in Japan. In the years prior to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in 2011 (3/11), utilities and
METI
were proposing operation of nuclear reactors beyond (...)
17 March 2015
Grid Connection of Yangjiang‑2 in Guangdong, China
The first half of March 2015 was an important time for the Chinese nuclear industry with first grid connection achieved at the Yangjiang-2 unit in Guangdong and criticality achieved at the Ningde-3 unit in Fujian province. This comes on the back of the grid connection of the Finagjiahan-2 unit in January and news emerging of the regulatory approval for the Hongyanhe 5-6 units – the first since December 2013. Construction started at the
CPR
-1000 reactor at Yangjiang in June 2009 when (...)
1 March 2015
South Korea: Shin‑Wolsong‑2 Grid Connected / Wolsong‑1 Lifetime Extension
Shin-Wolsong-2 Grid Connected / Wolsong-1 Lifetime Extension 28 February 2015 The Shin-Wolsong reactor unit 2 was connected to the grid 26 February 2015 plant, owner Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (
KHNP
) announced. The 1,050 MWe
OPR
-1000 reactor is located near Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea. Construction began on Shin-Wolsong-2 in 2008 and was completed in 2013, but was suspended following disclosure of falsified quality-control certificates. In January 2013, the Nuclear (...)
18 February 2015
Doel‑1 in Belgium Closed
Doel-1 in Belgium Closed The Belgian reactor Doel-1 was closed on 15 February 2015. Belgian legislation requires the permanent shutdown of nuclear reactors after 40 years of operation. Doel-1, a 433 MWe Pressurized Water Reactor (
PWR
), had been first connected to the grid on 28 August 1974, but reached commercial operation—determining the operational lifetime—only on 15 February 1975. Electrabel is attempting to receive a permission to restart Doel-1 and extend operation of Doel-2, scheduled for (...)
17 January 2015
Fangjiashan‑2 Connected to Chinese Grid
Fangjiashan-2 Connected to the Chinese Grid Saturday 17 January 2015 The Fangjiashan unit 2 reactor was connected to the Chinese grid on 12 January 2015, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (
IAEA
) Power Reactor Information System (
PRIS
). The
CPR
-1000 reactor in China’s eastern coastal province of Zhejiang achieved first criticality on 25 December 2014, as reported by the China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
). The project is an expansion of the nearby Qinshan nuclear plant, (...)
1 January 2015
World Nuclear Reactor Status as of 1 January 2015
World Nuclear Reactor Status as of 1 January 2015 The Year 2014 is the first one in half a century that no nuclear electricity was generated in Japan. As of 1 January 2015, there were 390 nuclear reactors considered “in operation” in the world, preliminary analysis indicates. Five new reactors started up over the year—three in China (Fangjiashan-1, Fuqing-1, Ningde-2) as in 2013, one each in Argentina (Atucha-2), after 33 years of construction, and Russia (Rostov-3), after 31 years of (...)
30 December 2014
Vermont Yankee Reactor Closed
On 29 December 2014, the 42-year old
U.S.
Vermont Yankee reactor generated its last kilowatt-hour and was disconnected from the grid. Owner/operator Energy had decided the closure of the plant in August 2013, when it became apparent that “this asset is not financially viable” (see Another
US
Reactor Scheduled for Closure). Entergy blames low power prices, a high cost structure and “an atmosphere of unpredictability” for the lack of competitiveness. The shutdown decision is all the more (...)
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