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29 April 2010
| Construction start on new reactor in China First concrete has been poured for the first of two new reactors for the Changjiang nuclear power plant on Hainan Island, south China. These are largely indigenous 650 MWe units which are due on line in 2014 and 2015. Total cost of the first pair is put at about CNY 19 billion ($2.8 billion). Units 3 & 4 will be built as phase II. China National Nuclear Corporation is 51% shareholder, with China Huaneng group holding 49% in Hainan Nuclear Power Co Ltd. WNN 26/4/10. Nuclear Power in China. Enel opts in to Russian power plant project An agreement between Italy's Enel and Russia's Inter RAO has positioned Enel to take up to a 49% share in Rosenergoatom's Baltic nuclear power project in Kaliningrad. The 2340 MWe Baltic plant is to comprise two modern 1200 MWe VVER reactors at Neman on the Lithuanian border, the first planned to be on line in 2016. Rosenergoatom has said that the plant is deliberately placed "essentially within the EU" and is designed to be integrated with the EU grid. Inter RAO intends to export some two thirds of the power to Germany, Poland and Baltic states. It will be the first Russian nuclear plant with private or international equity. The Enel agreement is wide-ranging in relation to nuclear power and electricity. Inter RAO UES is essentially an electricity utility and trader, 57.3% owned by Rosatom and Rosenergoatom. WNN 27/4/10. Nuclear Power in Russia UAE selects nuclear power plant site The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has lodged licence applications and an environmental assessment for its preferred nuclear power site at Braka, on the coast 53 km west of Ruwais, well west of Abu Dhabi city. The site evaluation process for the four reactors considered ten potential sites and was based on guidance from the UAE nuclear regulator as well as the US Electric Power Research Institute, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the IAEA. ENEC expects to lodge a full construction licence application for units 1 & 2 building the South Korean APR1400 reactors later in 2010, and start construction late in 2012. Commercial operation is envisaged in 2017 and 2018, followed by 2019-20 for units 3 & 4. WNN 23/4/10. Nuclear Power in United Arab Emirates |
