Construction of the Sanmen nuclear power plant has reached a milestone with the installation of the pressure vessel for the first reactor.
The reactor building dome of unit 2 at the Yangjiang nuclear power plant in China was recently installed, 16 days ahead of schedule. Meanwhile, the second ring of the containment vessel of unit 2 at the Haiyang plant has also been lifted into place.
The first of India's Russian-designed nuclear power reactors has taken a step closer to start-up with the loading of dummy fuel assemblies into the core of Kudankulam 1.
.jpg "Yangjiang 2 dome lifting (CNECC)")
.jpg "Sanmen1 RPV, September 2011 (SNPTC)")
Construction of the Sanmen nuclear power plant has reached a milestone with the installation of the pressure vessel for the first reactor..jpg "Watts Bar (TVA)")
Watts Bar unit 2 will not enter commercial operation until 2013, the Tennessee Valley Authority has announced. The reactor had been due to enter service during 2012..jpg "Vogtle 3, March 2011 (Southern)")
Southern Company is expecting to begin full construction of two reactors at the end of this year, having been given a licensing schedule by the nuclear safety regulators.
A round of applications, permissions and orders has launched the UK's first new nuclear build project into a practical phase..jpg "Sanmen 1 RPV (SNPTC)"){kind=small}
The reactor pressure vessel cylinder to be used in the world's first AP1000 has been delivered from South Korea to Sanmen in Zhejiang province, eastern China..jpg "CEFR control room (CNNC)")
Exactly one year after achieving first criticality, China's experimental fast neutron reactor has been connected to the electricity grid.
The schedule for Flamanville 3 has been revised with commercial operation now slated for 2016, said EDF yesterday when describing "a new approach to organisation" of the project..jpg "Kudankulam (ASE)")
The first of India's Russian-designed nuclear power reactors has taken a step closer to start-up with the loading of dummy fuel assemblies into the core of Kudankulam 1.