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25 October 2016
Nebraska Reactor Fort Calhoun Closes Permanently
Nebraska Reactor Fort Calhoun Closes Permanently 25 October 2016 The 482
MW
Fort Calhoun pressurized water reactor in Nebraska, was permanently shut down on 24 October 2016, due to poor economics. Located 19 miles north of Omaha, the reactor was operated by Omaha Public Power District (
OPPD
) through an agreement with Exelon Generation. The reactor began operation in 1973, and received a license extension in 2002 from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (
NRC
) to operate until 2033. The
OPPD
(...)
9 September 2016
China: Grid Connection for Fuqing‑3 and Construction Start on Tianwan‑6
China: Grid Connection for Fuqing-3 and Construction Start on Tianwan-6 8 September 2016 Grid connection for the
CPR
-1000 Fuqing Unit 3 reactor, located on the coast of Fujian Province, China, took place on 7 September 2016. A total of six reactors are planned for the site, with unit 4 also a
CPR
-1000 design, and Units 5&6, also called Hualong One, being
ACP
-1000 design. Fuqing-2 was connected to the grid in August 2015. Unit 3 startup is seven months late, as it was originally planned (...)
30 August 2016
Kudankulam‑2 Connected to the Indian Grid
Kudankulam-2 Connected to the Indian Grid
WNISR
, 29 August 2016 On 29 August 2016, the second unit of Kudankulam was connected to the grid in India. The reactor had attained criticality on 10 July 2016, eight years later than planned when construction started. Kudankulam is a twin
VVER
-1000 nuclear power plant imported from Russia. The first unit started operating in October 2013 (see
WNISR
, “Controversial Reactor Starts Operation at Kudankulam in India”). Kudankulam is one of those nuclear (...)
17 August 2016
Ikata‑3 Restarted—Only Three Reactors Operate in Japan
Ikata-3 Restarted—Only Three Reactors Operate in Japan 17 August 2016 On 15 August 2016, unit 3 of the Ikata nuclear power plant in the Ehime Prefecture, Japan, was reconnected to the grid. The 846
MW
Pressurized Water Reactor (
PWR
) had been offline for over five years—it was shut down on 29 April 2011, following the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe. Operator Shikoku Electric Power Company had received the operating approval by the Nuclear Regulation Authority (
NRA
), according to new, post-311 (...)
7 August 2016
Novovoronezh‑6, First Russian Generation
III
Reactor Connected to the Grid
Novovoronezh-6, First Russian Generation
III
Reactor Connected to the Grid Paris, 7 August 2016 Russian nuclear builder-operator Rosatom announced the grid connection of what it declares to be the first operating Generation
III
+ reactor in the world (see What is a Generation
III
+?). The
VVER
-1200 Novovoronezh-6 generated its first electricity on 5 August 2016, with a delay of four years. Construction started on 24 June 2008 and commercial operation was planned for the end of 2012. Nothing is (...)
21 July 2016
35
th
Reactor Connected to Chinese Grid – Fangchenggang‑2
35
th
Reactor Connected to Chinese Grid—Fangchenggang-2 Unit 2 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China’s Guangxi province started supplying electricity to the grid on 15 July 2016, according to plant owner China General Nuclear (
CGN
). The
CPR
-1000 designed reactor was under construction since December 2010. Fangchenggang Unit 1 was connected to the grid on 25 October 2015. Located on the Qisha peninsula in Guangxi province, 45 km from the Vietnamese border, a total of six reactors are (...)
21 June 2016
Changjiang‑2 on China’s Hainan Island Connected to the Grid
Changjiang-2 on China’s Hainan Island Connected to the Grid Monday, 21 June 2016 Grid connection took place on 20 June 2016 of the Changjiang-2 Generation
II
Changjiang Pressurized Water Reactor (
PWR
) on the Chinese southern island of Hainan. The reactor started up with a delay of about four months compared to the target date one year ago. When construction started in November 2010, the objective was a startup in 2015 (no month indicated at the time). While the overall delay is limited (...)
8 June 2016
Watts Bar‑2 (
US
): Grid Connection 43 Years After Construction Start—Shutdown 2 Days Later
Watts Bar-2 (
US
): Grid Connection 43 Years After Construction Start—Shutdown 2 Days Later 8 June 2016 More than four decades after construction began, the Watts Bar-2 reactor was finally connected to the grid on 3 June 2016. However, two days later, while operating at 12.5 percent power, the reactor automatically shut down. According to the
U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (
NRC
), the reactor tripped when a high pressure turbine valve failed to open. As of 8 June 2016, the reactor has not (...)
2 April 2016
Ningde‑4 and Hongyanhe‑4 Connected to China’s Power Grid
Ningde-4 and Hongyanhe-4 Connected to China’s Power Grid Within three days, China connected its first two nuclear units in 2016 to the grid. More are scheduled to follow. The fourth
CPR
-1000 reactor at the Ningde nuclear power plant started generating power on 29 March 2016. Hongyanhe-4, also a
CPR
-1000, followed on 1 April. As reported by
WNISR
, there are significant safety concerns over the aged design of the
CPR
-1000. China General Nuclear (
CGN
) is involved in both projects. The Ningde (...)
26 March 2016
Permanent Closure of Japanese Reactor Ikata‑1
Permanent Closure of Japanese Reactor Ikata-1 On 25 March 2016, the Shikoku Electric Power Company took the decision to permanently shut down the Ikata-1 nuclear reactor. Since April 2015, six reactors in Japan have now been announced for retirement. The 566
MW
unit, which began operation in 1977, had been shut down since September 2011. The utility has been assessing the financial implications of upgrading the reactor including the installation of fireproofing power cabling, with total (...)
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