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The CA03 module - weighing about 230 tonnes - has been hoisted into place at unit 3 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province. Together with the CA02 module, the CA03 makes up the in-containment refuelling water storage tank.

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Wednesday, 07 June 2023; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Super-module-installed-at-Haiyang-3

An agreement has been signed by state-owned Polish utility Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) with a consortium of US Westinghouse and Bechtel, which is being set up to design and build a NPP in Pomerania. The agreement, which sets out the rules for cooperation between PEJ and the Westinghouse-Bechtel consortium, is the result of intensive negotiations in recent months. These rules will apply to subsequent commercial contracts for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Pomerania.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 01 June 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newspej-signs-agreement-with-us-consortium-to-design-and-build-npp-in-pomerania-10900704

The unit is now in the final stages of start-up testing ahead of starting commercial operation and is expected to be declared in service next month.

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: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Wednesday, 31 May 2023; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Vogtle-3-reaches-full-power

An agreement setting a plan for the delivery of Poland's first nuclear power plant has been signed by Westinghouse Electric Company, Bechtel and Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ).

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Saturday, 27 May 2023; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse,-Bechtel-and-PEJ-push-ahead-on-Poland

Agreement with project company PEJ the result of ‘intensive negotiations’

: Source: Nucnet

: Date: Friday, 26 May 2023; Original article: nucnet.org/news/westinghouse-and-bechtel-form-consortium-to-design-and-build-country-s-first-nuclear-station-5-4-2023

China’s Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research & Design Institute (SNERDI) says the largest and heaviest module has been installed at unit 4 of the Sanmen NPP in Zhejiang province. The CA20 module is 20.5 metres long, 14.1 metres wide and 20.9 metres high. It comprises plant and equipment for used fuel storage, transmission, the heat exchanger and waste collection, among other things. The total weight of the hoisting was 1024 tonnes, and installation was carried out using a 2600-tonne crawler crane. More than 1376 cubic metres of concrete will now be poured to fill the walls of the module.

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: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 11 May 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskey-module-installed-at-unit-4-of-chinas-sanmen-npp-10836076

US-based Westinghouse has launched its AP300 small modular reactor (SMR), a 300 MWe single-loop pressurised water reactor, which is a scaled-down version of its AP1000. Westinghouse claims it is the only SMR “truly based on an Nth-of-a-kind operating plant” and describes it as a “game-changer”.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 11 May 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswestinghouse-launches-ap300-small-modular-reactor-10836205

Reactor technology provider not yet confirmed

: Source: Nucnet

: Date: Thursday, 11 May 2023; Original article: nucnet.org/news/pej-could-announce-two-possible-sites-for-second-nuclear-station-this-year-5-3-2023

The largest and heaviest module has been installed at unit 4 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI) has announced. Two CAP1000 units - the Chinese version of the AP1000 - are being constructed as Phase II of the plant, in China's Zhejiang province.