China reaches criticality for the second advanced European EPR reactor, Taishan 2.
Taishan 1 and 2 are the first two reactors based on the EPR design to be built in China. The two 1660 MWe reactors cost a total of US$9 million.
Construction of unit 1 of the Taishan plant started in 2009, followed by that of unit 2 in 2010. They took nine years to complete. China usually completes nuclear reactors in 4 to 5 years.
These two units are the third and fourth EPR units under construction globally, after the Olkiluoto 3 project in Finland and the Flamanville 3 project in France. The first two european EPR reactors should start next year.
Funding and Approval for China to Build a Nuclear Reactor for Argentina
China will build the fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Argentina. It will cost $7.9 billion dollars and construction will start 2021. Argentina got the price reduced by $1.1 billion and China provided a loan of US$2.5 billion.
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“chicoms”????? WOW! I haven’t heard that term in about 2 decades.
HEY “kehvan” TRY GETTING OUT FROM UNDER THAT ROCK YOU’RE PINNED UNDER: it’s 2019.
Exactly. Also, due to the nuclear renaissance that was expected around 15 years ago that never arrived, there’s actually a massive oversupply of equipment and factories that can make pieces for nuclear power reactors. So none will be built in the USA.
See table in this link
http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-power-reactors/heavy-manufacturing-of-power-plants.aspx
Quantum electron wave turn + arc aspect + toroidal + podcast
Strings are all quasi-composite infinite configurations for existence of matter by positive/negative to negative/positive a most
rudimentary percept for two but one, the most apt separation for consciousness/unconscious…all composites exhibit the duality
of separation/emergence, a seed changing through by an iterative process…strings are these infinite iterative changes into processing
matter from energy, vice versa, energy into matter…
How else would string theory be the most simple and the most complex simultaneously in configuration arrays. Einstein said time is asymmetric; Murray Gell-Mann
was an advocate of String Theory.
Math/geometry are infinite iterative interactions for action/reaction duplicity with string forces by
changing iteration from positive/negative to negative/positive the infinite transition for E = mc2 Proof.
How are the nature of all composites reconciled by strings (quantum fractal configurations) theory? Axial/axiom di-symmetry, positive/negative for conformity/composite from/into dissipative radiation, black holes infinite density…
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-expand-the-frontier-of-verifiable-knowledge-20190523/
Shocking Subatomic Source of Mass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kUFs6_DBrM
Interplay of Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Chromodynamics in the Nontrivial Vacuum
Quantum Gravity Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XFjYKXqzV
Argentina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes
I understand it is still conceptual. If they can man it with significantly reduced staff, then it will be great. 300MWe is a nice number. I looked and saw BWR4 with electrical output as low as 357MWe (Tsuruga 1)… That RX of same design as 1240MWe station run by 500+ heads in USA.
Are you saying that if a Chinese reactor melts down it will end up in Pennsylvania ?
What do you think of the mini-ESBWR that GE-Hitachi are touting ?
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-GEH-receives-federal-funds-for-BWRX-300-developm
I doubt that. There isn’t much of a supply chain to build nuclear power plants.
$9 million or $9 billion, Mr. Wang? If $9 million then where can I sign up for one like that for me?
International competition may finally pull the stick out of the NRC’s butt. There will be a lot of American companies wanting to sell nuclear plants overseas.
ESBWR has approximately the same colossal output, appears to require significantly less equipment, and is passively cooled by isolation condensers and later, gravity driven re-flood, upon station blackout. This EPR employs quadruple redundant active safety systems. Shoot, the modern VVER apparently employ passive safety systems. I imagine that China won’t build more of this design.
Go Argentina!