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Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) - operator of the Cooper nuclear power plant - has begun the process to identify sites that have the potential to host small modular reactors (SMR) after receiving state-allocated funding for the study.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nebraska-begins-SMR-siting-study
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction at Saint-Paul-les-Durance in southern France is facing more delays, ITER director general Pietro Barabaschi said in an interview with AFP.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-delays-for-iter-10511382
Unit 3 of China's Fangchenggang NPP in Guangxi Autonomous Region has been connected to the grid for the first time, according to China General Nuclear (CGN). The 1,180 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR) is the first of two Hualong One (HPR1000) demonstration reactors under construction at the site and is scheduled to begin commercial operation in the second half of 2023. The unit was synchronised to the grid, "indicating that the unit is capable of generating electricity and moving towards the goal of commercial operation”, CGN said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinas-fangchenggang-3-connected-to-the-grid-10511440
Unit 3 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region has been connected to the grid for the first time, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced. The unit - the first of two demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors at the site - is scheduled to enter commercial operation in the second half of 2023.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 12 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/CGN-s-first-Hualong-One-reactor-starts-supplying-e
China General Nuclear (CGN) has said that unit 3 at its Fangchenggang NPP in Guangxi Autonomous Region will begin operation in first half of 2023, postponed from the second half of 2022. Fangchenggang 3 is the first of two demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors under construction at the site. In an announcement published on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange website, CGN Power said: "The company has recently made an overall evaluation of the construction of the Fangchenggang unit 3 in order to realise the high-quality operation of the first reactor of the demonstration projects of HPR1000 technology of the company and to ensure the long-term safe and stable operation of the unit when put into operation."
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 23 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscgn-postpones-start-up-of-unit-3-at-its-fangchenggang-npp-10456755
Unit 3 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region will now not begin operation until the first half of 2023, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The unit - the first of two demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors under construction at the site - had been due to start up in the second half of 2022.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 22 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Delay-to-start-up-of-CGN-s-first-Hualong-One-unit
The manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel for the first of two EPR units at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, UK, has been completed in France and the large component is ready for delivery to the construction site.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 17 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-reactor-vessel-for-Hinkley-Point-C-completed
The world’s largest crane, called 'Big Carl', lifted the 304-tonne steel liner ring on to the first reactor building at Hinkley Point in the early hours of Monday.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 13 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/In-Pictures-World-s-largest-crane-lifts-304-tonne
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) executive vice-president and chief regulatory operations officer Ramzi Jammal said in a 28 November 2022 letter to OPG that the company had met the conditions for the removal of the hold-point and “fuel may now be loaded into the Unit 3 core”.
Hold points are mandatory checkpoints where CNSC approval is required before the licensee – in this case OPG – is allowed to move on to the next stage of the process to return the unit to operation.
OPG said it will now load 6,240 fuel bundles into the Candu 850 reactor core.
In February 2022, OPG said work had begun on the refurbishment of Unit 1 – the third of four nuclear reactors at the site to undergo mid-life refurbishment.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 07 December 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/opg-to-begin-fuel-loading-after-completion-of-darlington-3-refurbishment-12-2-2022
EDF, China General Nuclear (CGN) and the UK government have agreed a three-year extension to the contract for difference (CfD) for the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, England. While the 'long-stop date' has now been moved to November 2036, EDF maintains the plant's start-up schedule remains unchanged.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 03 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Three-year-extension-agreed-to-Hinkley-Point-C-con