Nuclear power continues in the world

[Janic]

Boommmmm!

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Tianwan 6 enters commercial operation

03 June 2021

Unit 6 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China's Jiangsu province has entered commercial operation, having successfully completed a 100-hour continuous operation test run at full power. Tianwan 6 becomes China National Nuclear Corporation's (CNNC) 24th reactor in commercial operation, increasing the company's installed generating capacity from 21.391 GWe to 22.509 GWe (gross).


Workers in the control room of Tianwan 6 (Image: CNNC)

The 1080 MWe (net) domestically-designed ACPR1000 pressurized water reactor was connected to the electricity grid on 11 May. Since then, the unit has undergone tests at 30%, 50% and 100% of its generating capacity before entering a full-power demonstration operating assessment. Tianwan 6 completed the full-power test run at 10.06pm yesterday, CNNC announced today.

Units 5 and 6 at Tianwan - Tianwan Phase III - both feature ACPR1000 reactors. First safety-related concrete was poured for unit 5 on 27 December 2015, with that for unit 6 poured on 7 September 2016. Tianwan 5 entered commercial operation in September last year.

According to CNNC, the output from the two units of Tianwan Phase III will avoid the burning of 5.17 million tonnes of standard coal per year, cutting CO2 emissions by 13.6 million tonnes and sulfur dioxide emissions by 44,100 tonnes. This, it says, is equivalent to planting 34,000 hectares of trees.
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https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Arti ... -operation

the rest of the site is Tianwan 7 and 8 to enter service in 2026 and 2027.

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In Belarus, the Ostrovets reactor unit 1 officially enters commercial service.

Ostrovets unit 1 enters commercial operation

10 June 2021

Unit 1 of the first nuclear power plant to be built in Belarus was put into commercial operation today, Russia's Rosatom has announced. The milestone took place following the transfer of the 'acceptance certificate', signed by the general designer and general contractor of the project - Rosatom subsidiary AtomStroyExport (ASE) - to the customer, Belarusian NPP. ASE. is responsible for the "operability" of the power unit equipment during the unit's warranty period, Rosatom said.

"Handing over to our Belarusian colleagues the symbolic key for the country's first nuclear power unit, I can say with full confidence that Belarus has become the owner of the most modern and safest facility," ASE President Alexander Lokshin said. Addressing the general director of Belarusian NPP, Mikhail Filimonov, he added: "Now you will need this key no earlier than 80 years from now, to close the plant."

The unit is the first VVER-1200 to enter operations outside Russia.

The physical start-up of Ostrovets 1 began on 7 August last year and it was connected to the national grid on 3 November. On 22 December, the pilot operation phase commenced. It reached 100% of its nominal capacity for the first time on 12 January. It was issued with an operating license on 2 June.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Arti ... -operation

[izentrop]

The devil's advocate who becomes devil. It is true that he represents the vast majority of public opinion. The expert has mastered the situation superbly and has not been muzzled in any way.
I also think that it will have made think the listener of the morning, alone in his car, going to work.

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

The expert mastered the situation superbly and was in no way muzzled ...

Valérie Faudon, an expert yes, but not in nuclear power, but in nuclear marketing. And Izy, swallows whole, plus he seems to be jubilant.

Valerie Faudon:
General Delegate of the French Nuclear Energy Society (SFEN). An engineer by training, a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Valérie Faudon developed her skills at Sciences Po and obtained a Master of Science from Stanford University in California. At the professional level, she first started working in IT at Hewlett Packard and Alcatel-Lucent, before joining nuclear in 2009, first at AREVA as marketing director, then at SFEN as General Delegate.

https://lenergeek.com/author/valerie-faudon/
A top-flight nuclear scientist! Do you still have it under the elbow of impostors of the genre?

[izentrop]

Always pulling the lice out of people who don't think like you.

The main thing is that she knows the subject well my good guy.

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

Always pulling the lice out of people who don't think like you.

The main thing is that she knows the subject well my good guy.

She knows nothing, it's a crusader who says what she's told to say, what she throws is worked in a small committee, it's pure communication, she was trained for, my good boy. You will notice that his speech is not scientific, but generalist, popularizer, tendentious and that it boils down to "it is without danger". In short, more shit given that the company it represents is unfazed to operate an EPR ... All this is just one more masquerade, relayed by our good house puppet, prostrate as he is before the god of the atom.

[izentrop]

Your anthroposophical training blinds you my pov Guy. and you are very heavy

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

(poor Izy .... all he has left is provocation and double-barreled slander when he knows very well that I have no anthroposophical training ...) Go and update yourself, you're out on all subjects.

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Japan: a nuclear reactor over 40 years old restarts, a first since Fukushima

AFP • 23 / 06 / 2021

A nuclear reactor over 40 years old was put back into service in Japan on Wednesday, a first for a reactor of this age group since the introduction of new safety standards after the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

Reactor n ° 3 at the Mihama plant (central Japan), which had been completely shut down shortly after the Fukushima nuclear accident like all the other atomic plants in the country, has thus restarted for the first time in ten years, has operator Kansai Electric Power said in a statement.

Mihama thus becomes "the first nuclear power station to operate in Japan beyond 40 years, since the establishment of new standards" of safety, underlined the president of Kansai Electric Power, Takashi Morimoto, quoted in the press release.

It is also the first restart of a nuclear reactor in Japan since 2018.

At the end of April, Tatsuji Sugimoto, the governor of the Fukui department, where the Mihama plant is located, had lifted the last regulatory obstacle to restarting its reactor n ° 3.

Two reactors at the Takahama plant, also over 40 years old and located in the same department of Fukui, have also obtained the green light from the local authorities, but have not yet restarted due to modernization work still in progress. Classes.

With that of Mihama, ten reactors are now active in Japan, against 54 before the Fukushima disaster ten years ago. The dismantling of about twenty reactors has been recorded, including that of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The atom's share in the country's electricity production was only 6,2% in 2019, compared to 30% before 2011.

The Japanese government is in favor of relaunching nuclear power, to reduce the archipelago's current significant energy dependence, and also to achieve its new and ambitious objectives of reducing CO2 emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by by 2050.

But the will of Tokyo often comes up against strong local opposition with legal disputes to the key. In addition, the maintenance and modernization of nuclear power plants entail huge costs.

https://www.boursorama.com/actualite-ec ... 0c3d40ddab