China's demonstration HTR-PM enters commercial operation
Sep 12, 2024 · It follows a successful 168-hour demonstration run for the High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor - Pebble-bed Module (HTR-PM) in Shidao Bay (also known as Shidaowan), in Shandong Province, which is currently operating at 2×200 MWt power. The HTR-PM features two small reactors (each of 250 MWt) that drive a single 210 MWe steam turbine.
Chinese molten-salt reactor cleared for start up
A cutaway of the TMSR-LF1 reactor (Image: SINAP) In January 2011, CAS launched a CNY3 billion (USD444 million) R&D programme on liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs), known there as the thorium-breeding molten-salt reactor (Th-MSR or TMSR), and claimed to have the world's largest national effort on it, hoping to obtain full intellectual property rights on the technology.
First CGN Hualong One reactor enters commercial operation
Sep 10, 2024 · Monday, 27 March 2023. Unit 3 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region has entered commercial operation, China General Nuclear announced. The unit is the first of two CGN-designed Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors at the site. CGN representatives celebrate the entry of Fangchenggang 3 into commercial operation ...
Europe's first EPR reaches criticality - World Nuclear News
Sep 10, 2024 · Inside OL3, Finland's newest nuclear plant (Image: TVO) "First criticality of the OL3 EPR plant unit was reached on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 3.22 a.m.", utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) announced. Electricity production will begin when the unit is connected to the national grid, which is expected to happen at the end of January 2022.
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Sep 24, 2024 · Homepage - World Nuclear News. The decommissioning process for the Fukushima Daiichi site and surroundings is scheduled to be completed by 2051. It will require many innovations, and careful planning. Here are some of the details outlined at an event at the International Atomic Energy Agency's General Conference in Vienna.
Holtec applies to restart shuttered Palisades plant
Sep 9, 2024 · Friday, 6 October 2023. The Palisades plant in Michigan could become the first successfully restarted nuclear power plant in the USA following Holtec International's submission of a filing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to formally begin the process of seeking reauthorisation of power operations at the plant, which was shut down in May ...
Westinghouse to study UK production of advanced nuclear fuel
May 1, 2024 · Westinghouse's Springfields site (Image: ONR) The grant, through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), will consider a secure and reliable supply of advanced TRISO - tristructural isotropic - fuels to support a range of potential high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) technologies under development.
China launches CAP1400 reactor design - World Nuclear News
China launches CAP1400 reactor design. Tuesday, 29 September 2020. China's State Power Investment Corp has officially launched the CAP1400 reactor design following 12 years of research and development work. Also referred to as Guohe One, the 1400 MWe design is intended to be deployed in large numbers across the country, as well as for export.
Operating permit issued for Chinese molten salt reactor
Sep 10, 2024 · A cutaway of the TMSR-LF1 reactor (Image: SINAP) "The thorium-fueled molten salt experimental reactor operation application and related technical documents were reviewed, and it was considered that the application met the relevant safety requirements, and it was decided to issue the 2 MWt liquid fuel thorium-based molten salt experimental reactor an operating licence," the National Nuclear ...
Viewpoint: The climate and economic benefits of nuclear power
Sep 2, 2019 · A high nuclear power capacity of 150 GW would entail widespread economic benefits throughout the EU, sustaining more than 1.3 million jobs and hundreds of billions of euros in additional GDP growth, tax revenues and household income. This would benefit all EU Member States, including those without nuclear power plants, and help the EU become ...