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have been installed. China Huaneng is
the lead organization in the consortium to
build the demonstration units with CNEC
and Tsinghua University’s Institute of
Nuclear and New Energy Technology
(INET), which is the research and
development leader. Chinergy, a joint
venture of Tsinghua and CNEC, is the
main contractor for the nuclear island.
Two demonstration CAP1400 units
- scaled up versions of Westinghouse’s
AP1000 - are also planned for the
Shidaowan site. About 80% of
components for these will be made in
China. The Shidaowan site is part of
the larger Rongcheng Nuclear Power
Industrial Park.
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Turkey Point
Approval for two new reactors
at Turkey Point and the required
transmission lines has been granted by
Florida state authorities.
State governor Rick Scott and a
majority of cabinet members voted
in favour of the new nuclear project
yesterday, approving at the same time a
route for new transmission lines that had
been contested by some city officials.
This brought to a conclusion the
state’s ‘one-stop-shop’ approval process
for new power plants that included an
eight-week hearing last year after five
years of liaison with community leaders.
Florida Power and Light’s (FPL)
plan is to add twoAP1000 units to Turkey
Point nuclear power plant, which already
features two reactors built in the 1970s
and is part of complex including two gas-
fired units and an oil-fired unit.
FPL has been officially planning
to expand nuclear generation at Turkey
Point since 2006, when it informed the US
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
that it intended to file for a construction
and operating license for new units. It
made the application in 2009, and in 2011
the Florida Public Service Commission
allowed FPL to add a small charge to
its customers’ bills to fund the nuclear
investment.
The license application for the new
reactors remains with the NRC, which
could complete its work by early 2016.
FPL hopes to secure these permissions
and build the plant in time to generate
electricity from the first new reactor in
mid-2022.
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World Nuclear News
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Xudabao
The Xudabao site in China’s
Liaoning province has been approved
for the construction of the first two of six
AP1000 units planned there.
The National Nuclear Safety
Administration (NNSA) announced that
it has approved the site selection for
Xudabao units 1 and 2. It said that the
site would meet site-related aspects of
nuclear safety regulations.
The site of the proposed Xudabao
nuclear power plant is in Xingcheng City
on the island of Hulu, in the northeast
of the coastal province of Liaoning.
While the initial phase of the project will
comprise two AP1000s, a further four
such units are planned for the site.
Site preparation at Xudabao began
in November 2010. The National
Development and Reform Commission
gave its approval for the project in January
2011. However, following the Fukushima
accident two months later, Chinese
authorities suspended the approval
process for new plants. The Xudabao
plant still requires a construction license
from the State Council.
In October 2012 China announced
that approvals for inland plants would be
delayed until after 2015. Parts that had
been intended for the Taohuajiang plant
in Hunan province - where four AP1000
units are planned - were subsequently
earmarked for Xudabao. Manufacture of
the steel containments for the first two
Xudabao units was launched in July 2013
by Shandong Nuclear Power Equipment
Manufacturing Co Ltd.
In September 2007, Westinghouse
and its partners the Shaw Group received
authorization to construct four AP1000
units in China: two at Sanmen in Zhejiang
province and two more at Haiyang in
Shandong province.
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World Nuclear News
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