China ready to fire up world’s first AP1000 nuclear reactor

No 1 reactor at Sanmen power plant expected to be ready for commercial operations on Friday after completing 168-hour test run. China will soon be ready to start commercial operations of the world’s first next-generation AP1000 nuclear reactor, possibly setting off a renewed push by the country into atomic power after years of delays and …

Rosatom plans to commission two units at Xudabao NPP in China in 2027-2028

Russia’s state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom plans to commission the third and fourth power units of Xudabao nuclear power plant (NPP) in China in 2027-2028, Chief Executive Officer Aleksei Likhachev said at the Eastern Economic Forum. “The plan is to shift to the generation stage already in 2027-2028,” he said, adding that the Russian company is …

French Orano opens uranium conversion plant despite glut

French nuclear group Orano on Monday inaugurated a 1.15 billion euro (1.02 billion pounds) uranium conversion plant despite huge global overcapacity for nuclear reactor fuel. State-owned Orano’s new plant in Tricastin, southern France, will account for a quarter of the world’s 60,000-tonne annual uranium hexafluoride (UF6) production capacity when it fully ramps up in 2021 …

KHNP Accelerates Bid to Export Nuclear Power Abroad On Its Own

Under stewardship of President Chung Jae-hoon, who took office in April, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) is accelerating efforts to export nuclear power plants abroad on its own. KHNP, the nation’s sole nuclear power operator, met with President Cosmin Ghita of the state-owned energy producer Nuclearelectrica of Romania in Gyeongju in early July to …

New nuclear reactor being built in western Japan applies for safety checks

Chugoku Electric Power Co. on Friday applied to the government for safety screening of a nuclear reactor it is constructing, opening up the possibility of it becoming Japan’s first newly built reactor to go into operation since the 2011 Fukushima crisis. Work on the No. 3 unit at the Shimane plant in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, …