{"id":11672,"date":"2012-04-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/chinese-reactor-enters-commercial-operation\/"},"modified":"2012-04-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T09:00:00","slug":"chinese-reactor-enters-commercial-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/chinese-reactor-enters-commercial-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese reactor enters commercial operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unit 4\u00a0at China\u2019s Qinshan Phase II has begun commercial operation. The announcement marks the successful conclusion of the project to add two more indigenously-designed units at the plant in Zhejiang province.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

At 9.05am on 8\u00a0April, the head of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), Sun Qin, declared to workers and officials gathered in the unit\u2019s control room that the reactor had successfully begun commercial operation, 60\u00a0days ahead of schedule. He said that the Qinshan Phase II expansion project\u00a0\u2014 the construction of units 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0\u2014 is \u2019now fully complete and commissioned\u2019.<\/p>\n

The reactor, a CNP-600, is a locally-designed and constructed two-loop pressurized water reactor (PWR) design rated at 650\u00a0MWe. It has taken about five years to build, with first concrete for the unit poured in January 2007. The unit was connected to the grid on 25\u00a0November 2011, becoming China\u2019s 15th operating nuclear power reactor.<\/p>\n

CNNC also held a thematic briefing at the Zhejiang Grand Theatre to mark the completion of the Qinshan Phase II expansion project. The event was attended by senior company representatives, as well as local and national government figures. Mr Zubin, president of CNNC\u2019s plant construction subsidiary China Nuclear Engineering and Construction Corporation (CNECC), told those gathered that the project was of \u2019special significance\u2019 to CNNC as it had been carefully managed to help develop China\u2019s nuclear industry and had \u2019laid a good foundation\u2019 for the country\u2019s rapid development of nuclear power.<\/p>\n

Qinshan Phase II is already home to three operating CNP-600s, built with a high degree of localisation. Units 1\u00a0and 2, comprising the first stage of Phase II, began operating in 2002\u00a0and 2004, respectively. Construction of the second stage was formally inaugurated at the end of April 2006, although first concrete had been poured for unit 3\u00a0the previous month. First concrete for unit 4\u00a0was poured in February 2007. Unit 3\u00a0entered commercial operation in October 2010.<\/p>\n

Phase I of the plant saw the construction of a 300\u00a0MWe PWR start in 1985\u00a0\u2014 the first indigenously-designed Chinese nuclear power station to be built. Phase III consists of two 750\u00a0MWe pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs) supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd and commissioned in 2002\u00a0and 2003.<\/p>\n

The Qinshan plant now consists of seven reactors with a combined capacity of 4320\u00a0MWe. The plant is expected to generate some 34\u00a0billion kWh of electricity annually.<\/p>\n

While current Chinese new build projects continue, approval of new plants remains suspended as officials respond to last year\u2019s Fukushima accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unit 4\u00a0at China\u2019s Qinshan Phase II has begun commercial operation. The announcement marks the successful conclusion of the project to add two more indigenously-designed units at the plant in Zhejiang province. At 9.05am on 8\u00a0April, the head of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), Sun Qin, declared to workers and officials gathered in the unit\u2019s control…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ru","en"],"languages":{"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}