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26 February 2022
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Russian Nuclear Industry Starts Nuclear Reactor Construction in China—Anyways
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, 26 February 2022 Construction of the Tianwan-8 reactor, a Russian
VVER
-1200 design, began 25 February 2022 with the pouring of base mat concrete. Located in Lianyungang City on the Yellow Sea coast of Jiangsu province in eastern China, six reactors are currently operating at the site, and according to Russian state nuclear company, Rosatom, Tianwan units 7 and 8, now both under construction, are scheduled to “be commissioned in 2026-2027.” The Tianwan plant is owned and operated (...)
15 February 2022
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– Nuclear Power 2021
Highest Number of Reactor Closures in a Decade
2021 in nuclear numbers—Six reactor startups, ten less than planned at the beginning of the year. Eight closures plus two closure announcements. Ten construction starts. Three reactors in Long-Term Outage (
LTO
) restarted, two closed. As of 1 January 2022, 412 reactors in operation, 25 in
LTO
, and 55 under construction. The Year 2021 saw the largest number of nuclear reactor closures in a decade, since 2011, when the Fukushima disaster began. Three of the six remaining units were (...)
23 January 2022
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— National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies / Renewable Energy Institute
Virtual Event (
PPT
& Video):
WNISR2021
—New Findings and Implications for Japan
Video recording (1h and 45min), program, and slides of the Japan Launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021 (
WNISR2021
) co-hosted by the Renewable Energy Institute and the Global Health Innovation Policy Program of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, both in Tokyo, Japan, on 19 January 2022. The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021 (
WNISR2021
) has been elaborated by an international team of 13 interdisciplinary experts from seven countries.
WNISR2021
has (...)
10 January 2022
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Fuqing‑6 Hualong One Reactor Connected to the Grid in China
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, 10 January 2022 The Fuqing-6 reactor located in Fujian province in south east China was connected to the grid on 1 January 2022 according to plant owner China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
). Construction began on the
HPR1000
reactor, also known as Hualong One design, on 22 December 2015. The design is derived mainly from the 900 MWe reactors that China imported from France in the 1980s (Daya Bay) and 1990s (Ling Ao). The first
HPR1000
, Fuqing-5, was connected to the grid on (...)
10 January 2022
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Construction Start of Changjiang‑4 and Sanaocun‑2 Reactors in China
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, 10 January 2022 Two construction starts at year-end in China. Pouring of basemat concrete for the reactor building of Changjiang-4 began 28 December 2021. Two days later, on 30 December 2021, construction started on Sanaocun-2. The Changjiang site is located in Haiwei Township, Changjiang Li Autonomous County on the island province of Hainan, while the Sanaocun site is in the eastern Zhejiang province. Both projects use the
HPR1000
reactor design, also known as the Hualong (...)
7 January 2022
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EDF
Energy Closes Hunterston B‑2 Reactor in the
UK
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, 7 January 2022 Hunterston B-2, a 495 MWe Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (
AGR
) was shut down for the last time around noon on 7 January 2022. The reactor, located on the Ayrshire coast in the west of Scotland and owned by Électricité de France (
EDF
) subsidiary
EDF
Energy, was connected to the grid on 31 March 1977, four years later than planned. Following the closure of Hunterston B-1 on 26 November 2021, it brings to an end nearly 58 years of commercial nuclear operations at the (...)
6 January 2022
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Closure of Kursk‑1 in Russia
The Kursk-1 reactor was closed on 19 December 2021, to the day 45 years after its first grid connection on 19 December 1976, plant operator Joint Stock Company Concern Rosenergoatom announced. The Chernobyl type,
RBMK
-
925MW
reactor was originally scheduled for permanent closure in late 2023 when construction of the new Kursk-
II
unit 1 was planned to be completed. The Kursk-
II
project consists of two
VVER1200
MW
which are the
TOI
or
VVER
-V-510 design, construction of which began 29 April (...)
1 January 2022
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Construction Start at Kudankulam‑6 in India
There are now 21 operating nuclear reactors in India and eight under construction. Only three new units were connected to the grid over the past decade, and with an average of 11.5 years, construction times were excessively long. Contributing 40 TWh (billion kWh) in 2020 or 3.3 percent of the national electricity generation, nuclear power’s role remains modest in India, and solar and wind individually produced about 50 percent more electricity than the nuclear plants.
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, 31 December (...)
24 December 2021
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Grid Connection for First High‑Temperature Reactor Module in China
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, 24 December 2021 Grid connection for one of the two modules that make up Shidao Bay-1 nuclear plant took place on 20 December 2021. The plant consists of two High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor - Pebble-bed Modules (
HTR
-
PM
) located at the Shidaowan site, in the eastern China province of Shandong. Construction start was 9 December 2012 with grid connection originally planned for 2017. The 2 x 100
MW
reactors are owned by the China Huaneng Group and operated by the Huaneng Shandong (...)
19 December 2021
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EDF
’s Hunterston B‑1 Reactor in the
UK
Permanently Closed
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, 19 December 2021 Hunterston B-1, a 490 MWe Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (
AGR
), located on the Ayrshire coast in the west of Scotland, shut down for the last time on 26 November 2021. The 490 MWe reactor, owned by
EDF
Energy, was connected to the grid on 6 February 1976. The remaining reactor at the site, the 44-year-old Hunterston B-2, is scheduled to be closed in early January 2022, ending nearly 58 years of commercial nuclear operations at the site. The closures will reduce (...)
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