Meeting the future demand for electricity will require a diverse mix of generation assets, including new nuclear power plants. Several designs are being actively considered for deployment, including the AP1000, the ESBWR, and the ABWR. This paper provides an overview of the recent progress made ...
JINAN, April 4 (Xinhua) -- The world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, China's Shidaowan high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) nuclear power plant, has begun to provide heat supply to residents of Rongcheng City, east China's Shandong Province. It is the first time the ...
Used fuel contains radioactive material, which is extremely hazardous to human health, and can leak out of its containment areas if some type of damage occurs to the nuclear plant. One example is the Fukushima Daiichi Accident (2011), which happe...
"The final approval of the Hinkley project, Britain's first new nuclear plant for two decades, shows resumption of operation of nuclear plants in the country, " he said, hailing the 18 billion-pound(23.38 billion U.S. dollars) project as the "flagship" for the "golden era" of the China...
Early research shows that 41 operating and retired nuclear power plant sites have room to host one or more large light-water reactors, such as the AP1000 reactors recently built at Vogtle in Georgia. This would create an additional 60 GW of new capacity!
The safety and security concerns over nuclear power in general have been addressed head-on in the design of Advanced Modular Reactors. In short, radioactive material cannot be released should an AMR plant fail or be subjected to an external event (such as an earthquake). And, as uranium and...
Electricity giant EDF on Wednesday announced a further delay and cost overruns for France's flagship new-generation nuclear plant, in a blow to President Emmanuel Macron's strategy of making atomic power a cornerstone of ...
New York state officials and the Long Island Lighting Co. agreed in principle Thursday to tear down the Shoreham nuclear power plant, which has never sold its electricity--the first time in U.S. history that a completed nuclear generating station will be
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"The Chinese-developed nuclear technology's installation in the Western developed countries such as Britain is a symbol of China transforming 'from big to strong' in its nuclear power development," Zheng said. CGN is China's largest nuclear power plant operator and world's largest nuclear power...