The 1000 MWe CGN-designed ACPR1000 pressurized water reactor achieved a sustained chain reaction for the first time (first criticality) on 22 June. Yangjiang 6 was connected to the electrical grid on 29 June.
Yangjiang 6 becomes CGN’s 23rd power reactor in commercial operation, with a combined capacity of 25.39 GWe. It also has five units under construction with an installed capacity of 6.35 GWe.
The six units at Yangjiang will generate some 48 terawatt-hours of electricity annually. Compared with the equivalent generation using fossil fuels, the plant will reduce the consumption of standard coal by 14.83 million tonnes and carbon dioxide emissions by 38.78 million tonnes.
Each one-gigawatt reactor generates about 8 terawatt-hours per year and reduces China’s coal usage by nearly 2 million tons per year and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by almost 5 million tons per year.
China Starting to Make Small Modular 125 MW Reactor in December 2019
China will start construction of a new small modular 125-megawatt reactor called the ACP100 by the end of this year. It is a demonstration unit called the Linglong One design.
The first concrete for the Hainan project is to be poured on 31 December. Construction is expected to take 65 months, with the 125 MWe unit to start-up by 31 May 2025, subject to relevant governmental approvals.
The ACP100 integrated pressurized water reactor (PWR) design has been under development since 2010.
It is a multi-purpose reactor designed for electricity production, heating, steam production or seawater desalination. In 2016, the design became the first SMR to pass a safety review by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The ACP100 was identified as a ‘key project’ in China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, and is developed from the larger ACP1000 PWR. The design, which has 57 fuel assemblies and integral steam generators, incorporates passive safety features and will be installed underground. In 2016, China announced plans to build a demonstration floating nuclear power plant based on the ACP100S variant of the CNNC design.
SOURCES- World Nuclear News
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we like American products years before. but Mr trump changes our ways. I dont blame him who makes china great again.
He thinks solar is the superior option to develop, but has nothing against nuclear as long as it isn’t built in an area prone to natural disasters. I basically agree with him 100%.
https://elonsays.com/2018/12/09/elon-musk-on-nuclear-power/
China in 2019 is far less committed to nuclear power than France was in the ’70s and ’80s.
It worked for Sputnik
Elon Musk will invent so small atomic reactor that it will be pocket size like Iphone.
I am hopping that at some time, China will become so dominant in nuclear power that they embarrass us into catching up with them.
Mass produced small nuclear reactors from China might be the solution to global warming and future baseload energy needs. 2025 is far away…
Four starts in China this year, five planned next year, one start planned for 2021. That is a very underwhelming pace.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx
OK SSP people, we need 100GW-e plans! Or nobody will notice.