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The US government has rejected Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power’s (KHNP’s) report on the tender for a nuclear power plant project in the Czech Republic. This has increased concerns that Korea’s plans to boost its nuclear reactor exports may continue to be stalled by ongoing litigation with Westinghouse Electric Company.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 12 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-stalls-south-koreas-npp-export-plans-10747925
ČEZ said Elektrárna Dukovany II, the wholly owned subsidiary set up to implement the new-build project, will now analyse the bids and negotiate with the three bidders. The bidders will then submit final bids by the end of September 2023.
Majority state-owned ČEZ, which launched the Dukovany expansion tender in March, said it expects the contracts to be finalised in 2024.
The initial bids are the basis for clarifying technical and commercial parameters, but not for the actual selection or exclusion of contractors, ČEZ said.
EDF’s reactor technology is the EPR, KHNP’s the APR-1400 and Westinghouse’s the AP1000. All three reactor types have seen commercial operation or are under construction in different countries.
Two EPRs and four AP1000s are commercially operational in China, while the APR-1400 is operated commercially in South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Additionally, EPR new build projects are near completion at Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in France, while construction is under way of two EPR units at Hinkley Point C in England. Two APR-1400s are in the commissioning stage and two are operating commercially at Barakah in the UAE.
ČEZ said there has been progress on preparation for the project. In 2019, the environment ministry approved an environmental impact assessment. Last year, Elektrárna Dukovany II received a siting permit from the State Office for Nuclear Safety and a generating facility authorisation from the ministry of industry and trade. The zoning procedure has begun, with the company applying to the building authority in June 2021.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 01 December 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/three-companies-submit-bids-to-build-new-nuclear-at-dukovany-11-3-2022
Under the contract state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation will procure “solutions” from Russia for the two units, the reports said.
In April Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said it expected construction of Xudabao-3 to begin in October 2021 and of Xudabao-4 in August 2022.
The Xudabao project, together with Tianwan nuclear station in Jiangsu province, eastern China, is part of a memorandum of understanding signed in June by CNNC and Rosatom that will involve the construction of four VVER-1200 reactors in China to be commissioned throughout the 2020s.
In April 2014, the Xudabao site was approved for the construction of two Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power units with the option of building four more units. According to International Atomic Energy Agency statistics, construction of the two AP1000s has not yet begun.
The site was initially planned to have six AP1000 units, but media reports have said only the first two AP1000s are still planned with the further two units to be Russian VVERs.
China has ambitious nuclear plans with an official target of 58 GW of installed nuclear capacity by 2020, up from almost 36 GW produced by 46 operational reactor units today.
According to Shanghai-based energy consultancy Nicobar, China’s goal is to have 110 nuclear units in commercial operation by 2030, but this target is likely to be adjusted in the next Five-Year Plan, the first draft of which will appear this year.
A forecast released last month by the China Electricity Council said the country will fall short of its nuclear power generation capacity target for 2020.
The country’s installed nuclear power generation capacity is expected to reach 53 GW next year, below the 58 GW target, council vice-chairman Wei Shaofeng told an industry conference in Beijing, according to local media reports.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 16 May 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/china-and-russia-ready-to-sign-1-7-billion-deal-for-new-xudabao-units
The Westinghouse-designed AP1000 reactor at unit 1 of China’s Sanmen NPP in Zhejiang province is expected to reach criticality at the end of June and go into commercial operation by November, the official Science Daily reported on 12 June, citing Chen Hua, chairman of the China National Nuclear Power Corp (CNNP) .
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 15 June 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-prepares-for-start-of-worlds-first-ap1000-6207502