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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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
21 October 2015
Yangjiang‑3 Grid Connection in China
Yangjiang 3 grid connection 21 October 2015 Grid connection of Yangjiang Unit 3, located at Dongping Town, Yangjiang City in western Guangdong Province, took place on 18 October 2015, according to plant owner China General Nuclear Power Corp. (
CGN
). Construction start of Unit 3 began on 15 November 2010, and commercial operation is scheduled for later this year. Yangjiang Unit 2 was connected to the grid in March 2015. In total, six units are slated to be built at the site, Yangjiang (…)
6 September 2015
Construction Start on
UAE
Barakah Unit 4
Construction Start on
UAE
Barakah Unit 4 Construction began on the fourth reactor at Barakah in the United Arab Emirates (
UAE
) on 2 September 2015, with the start of the pouring of the basemat concrete. The four
APR1400
reactors planned at Barakah, located in the western region of Abu Dhabi, about 50 kilometers west of Ruwais, are to be supplied by the Korea Electric Power Company (
KEPCO
). Unit 1 is scheduled to start operations in 2017 and the remaining three reactors planned for (…)
14 August 2015
32‑Year‑Old Reactor First to Generate Power in Japan in Nearly Two Years
32-Year-Old Reactor First to Generate Power in Japan in Nearly Two Years 14 August 2015 The first Japanese nuclear reactor to generate power in nearly two years was connected to the grid on 14 August 2015. The Sendai-1 reactor, owned by Kyushu Electric Power Company and located in Kagoshima prefecture in southern Japan, was shutdown in May 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi accident. Kyushu Electric connected the reactor to the grid and is expected progressively raising the power (…)
7 August 2015
Grid Connection for Fuqing‑2 in China
Grid Connection for Fuqing-2 in China 7 August 2015 Grid connection for the Fuqing unit 2, located on the coast of Fujian Province, China, took place on 6 August 2015, according to plant owner the China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
). Construction and operation of the plant is a joint effort between
CNNC
(51 percent), China Huadian Corp (39 percent) and the Fujian Investment and Development Co. Ltd (10 percent).
CNNC
is the large state-owned enterprise under the direct management of (…)
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