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Unit 4 at China’s Fangchenggang NPP in the Guangxi Autonomous Region has been connected to the grid, according to China General Nuclear (CGN). The unit is the second of two demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors (units 3&4) at the site. The Fangchenggang plant will eventually house six reactors. Phase one (units 1&2) are CPR-1000 units which began commercial operation in 2016. Units 5 and 6 are expected to be Hualong One reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgrid-connection-for-fangchenggang-4-11687150
Fangchenggang unit 4 - the second demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactor at the site in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region - has been connected to the grid, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-Chinese-reactor-begins-supplying-power
Unit 4 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region has attained a sustained chain reaction for the first time, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced. The unit is the second of two demonstration CGN-designed Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors at the site.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Second-CGN-Hualong-One-starts-up
The ITER Organisation is preparing a new timeline for construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built at Cadarache in France. As part of work underway to update the ITER Project Baseline, a group of experts met in February to evaluate the new blueprint for achieving ITER's research goals.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 23 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiter-prepares-new-timeline-11540250
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Council has postponed for a year any announcement on its updated timeline for the project but proposed a number of other changes to the programme.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 30 June 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiter-delays-update-on-projects-timeline-10974934
"A new clean energy economy is emerging - and emerging much faster than many realise," International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol said at the launch of the agency's eighth World Energy Investment report.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiea-report-on-clean-energy-investments-says-little-about-nuclear-10897991
The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for unit 3 at the Xudabao nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province has successfully completed hydrostatic testing in Russia. The two VVER-1200 reactors that form phase two of the plant - units 3 and 4 - are scheduled to be commissioned in 2027-2028.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 13 May 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Xudabao-3-vessel-passes-hydrostatic-tests
Jacobs has been awarded a contract to design and engineer maintenance systems for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 27 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Jacobs-to-design-remotely-operated-tools-for-ITER
“Uranium 2022: Resources, Production and Demand”, widely known as the Red Book, is the 29th edition of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and International Atomic Energy Agency's biennial report. The 568-page report presents the most recent review of world uranium market fundamentals and offers a statistical profile of the uranium industry. It includes 54 country reports on uranium exploration, resources, production and reactor-related requirements, 36 of which were prepared from officially reported government data and narratives, and 18 that were prepared by the NEA and IAEA secretariats.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 08 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsred-book-sees-modest-decrease-in-uranium-resources-but-expects-nuclear-capacity-to-increase-10741481
In the latest edition of Uranium Resources, Production and Demand, known as the Red Book, the NEA says uranium production cuts deepened suddenly with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020.
Overall, world uranium production decreased from 53,501 tonnes of uranium (tU) in 2018 to 47,342 tU in2020 as producers instituted production cuts, followed by a slight increase to 47,472 tU in 2021. These planned reductions were greatest in Canada and Kazakhstan.
As of 1 January 2021, the annual production capacity of idled mines amounted to over 29,400 tU. These operations, which have all the necessary licences, permits and agreements for operation and have produced commercially in the past, could potentially be brought back into production relatively rapidly given appropriate market conditions.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 07 April 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/global-production-down-12-with-kazakhstan-by-far-world-s-largest-producer-4-4-2023