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NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, September-October 2013
New Energy
Hanhikivi
Finnish nuclear power company
Fennovoima
and Rusatom Overseas,
subsidiary of Russian Rosatom, have
agreed on a proposal aiming at making an
investment decision and signing a power
plant supply contract by the end of 2013.
As a result of negotiations Fennovoima
proposes to its owners a nuclear power
plant that, according to the schedule
agreed with Rosatom, will produce
electricity in 2024.
Fennovoima and Rosatom’s target
is to sign the contract for supplying
Fennovoima’s Hanhikivi 1 power plant
unit at the end of the year. Simultaneously
the companies will agree upon the detailed
project schedule, financing arrangements,
and Rosatom’s 34 per cent ownership.
The reactor Rosatom proposes
for Pyhäjoki is the pressurized water
reactor AES-2006, the latest evolution
in a long line of VVER plant designs.
It corresponds with IAEA and EUR
requirements, and it will be adapted to
be in accordance with Finnish national
safety standards. In Finland, two VVER-
440 plant units have been used safely in
Loviisa for decades.
Contact:
Pekka
Ottavainen,
telephone: 358 20 757 9247.
Novovoronezh
Reactor vessel manufactured by
Izhorskiye Zavody, part of
OMZ Group
,
for the second Novovoronezh NPP-2
unit has successfully passed hydrostatic
testing.
Results of the test were evaluated
by expert commission consisting of
representatives of OKB GIDROPRESS,
FSUEVOSafety, JSCAtomenergoproekt,
JSC Energoatom and Izhorskiye Zavody
experts. Reactor vessel testing has been
conducted on test stand in accordance
with the “Programme and methods
for hydrostatic testing”. Following the
guidelines, a maximum pressure of 24.5
mPa was created in the reactor vessel in
the course of hydro-testing.
Hydro-testing proved durability of
the base metal and welded joints of the
product.
At present experts of the enterprise
prepare for check assembly of the reactor
vessel internals and the cover of the upper
unit which is one of the final stages in
the manufacturing process of the reactor
vessel before delivery to the customer.
This year the equipment will be delivered
to the construction site of the customer.
These components are for an
advanced generation III+, VVER-1200
plant.
Contact: Alexander Karlashov,
telephone: 7 495 6621040, email:
Changjiang
The reactor pressure vessel has been
installed at unit 1 of the Changjiang
nuclear power plant in China. The CNP-
600 unit is set to start operating by the
end of 2014.
Plant constructor China Nuclear En-
gineering and Construction Corporation
reported that the vessel was placed within
the unit’s reactor building on August 10,
2013.
The component - weighing some 250
tonnes and measuring about ten metres
long - was manufactured by Shanghai
Electric Nuclear Power Equipment Co
Ltd. under a contract signed in December
2008. It arrived on the construction site
on August 5, 2013 after being transported
by ship from Shanghai.
Source:
World Nuclear Association
.
Jordan
Permission has been granted to
begin construction of Jordan’s first
nuclear reactor. Operating from 2016, the
research reactor should become a focal
point for the country’s nuclear education
and training.
The Jordan Research and Training
Reactor (JRTR) it is to be built at the
Jordan University for Science and
Technology, 67 kilometres (41.6 miles)
north of Amman. It will be a 5 MWt
version of the Korea Atomic Energy
Institute’s 30 MWt Hanaro design (High-
flux Advanced Neutron Application
Reactor). Its fuel will be supplied by
Areva, France.
The cost of the reactor is about $130
million, with $70 million of this financed
by a soft loan from South Korea to the
Jordanian government.
With the issuance of a construction
permit, the South Korean engineers
can get to work. Daewoo Engineering
Construction is leading the project, with
involvement from the Korea Nuclear
Energy Promotion Agency. Building
work is expected to be completed in 2016.
As well as producing radioisotopes,
the reactor will provide training facilities
for future generations of Jordanian
nuclear scientists and engineers, and help
the country to develop the infrastructure
necessary to support its plans for nuclear
power.
Jordan is aiming to build a 750-1200
MWe nuclear power unit for operation by
2020 and a second one for operation by
2025.
Source:
World Nuclear Association
.
Pakistan
Contracts were recently signed
for the Karachi Coastal Nuclear Power
Project in Pakistan comprising two
ACP1000 units. The order marks the first
foreign purchase of the Chinese reactor
design.
China National Nuclear Corporation
(CNNC) has been contracted to build
the plant on a turnkey basis. At a signing
ceremony in Shanghai at the end ofAugust
2013, CNNC signed contracts with sub-
contractors for the project. The main
contractor is CNNC subsidiary China
Zhongyuan Engineering Company. Other
Chinese companies which have been
involved in the construction of reactors
at the Pakistan’s Chashma plant will also
participate in the project. These include
China Nuclear Power Engineering, the
Nuclear Power Institute of China and
the East China Electric Power Designing
Institute.
Pakistan currently has a 40-year-
old 125 MWe pressurized heavy water
reactor at Karachi and another nuclear
power plant at Chashma in northern
Punjab province. This has two 300
MWe Chinese-built pressurized water
reactors operating with two more under
construction.
Pakistan is outside the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty and largely excluded
from world trade in nuclear materials
and technology due to an absence of full
scope safeguards. China, however, has
longstanding bilateral arrangements to
support Pakistan’s development and the
country’s nuclear power reactors.
Source:
World Nuclear Association
.
