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The International Energy Agency (IEA) says the nuclear force is gaining momentum in many countries amid a dizzying increase in fuel and the development of concerns about the safety of the force.

“In the current context of the global force crisis, rising fossil fuel prices, demanding force security situations and ambitious climate commitments, I believe the nuclear force has an exclusive opportunity to return,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said on June 30. . in relation to the agency’s report entitled “Nuclear and Safe Force Transitions: From Today’s Demanding Situations to Tomorrow’s Blank Force Systems”.

“However, a new era for nuclear force is not guaranteed in any way,” Birol said. investments, adding new technologies. And the nuclear industry will have to temporarily cope with the cost overruns and allocation delays that have hampered the structure of new power plants in complex economies.

The IEA predicts that the nuclear force will double between 2020 and 2050. However, the company expects it to account for more than 8% of the combined nuclear force by mid-century.

Advanced nuclear technologies, which add small modular reactors (SMRs), are attracting development and interest in many countries around the world. However, Birol noted that “advanced economies” have lost their market leadership in the nuclear industry. He said 27 of the 31 reactors whose structure has begun since 2017 are of Russian or Chinese design. Some of those projects have reached vital milestones in recent days.

ROSATOM reported on June 28 that the steel structures of the Internal Containment Dome (IC) had been installed in the reactor structure of Unit 2 at the site of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) structure in Bangladesh. The installation activities of the IC dome took position in two stages. Last week, the descent component of the dome with a weight of 195 metric tons and a diameter of 42. 8 meters (m) placed in its design position. This week, the upper component of the dome (Figure 1) weighing 194 tons and with a diameter of 35. 7 m placed in its design position at an altitude of 51. 7 m. The height of the structure now reaches 60. 5 m.

“The installation of the IC dome is one of the steps of 2022. Last year we made paintings to Power Unit 1. Thanks to this, this time, the pre-assembly activities of the dome lasted 56 days less, having a total of 151 days. Once the two parts of the IC have been welded, the concreting of the dome will continue,” Alexey Deriy, vice president of ASE JSC and director of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Construction Project, said in a statement.

The general designer and general contractor of the Rooppur nuclear power plant is the Engineering department of ROSATOM. The activities of meeting and installation of the IC dome were carried out through specialists from TrestRosSEM LLC (a subdepartment of the engineering department of ROSATOM). A Liebherr LR11350 crane with a lifting capacity of 1,350 metric tons was used to carry out the lift, which lasted 4 hours. There would have been some difficulties in the procedure as both parts of the dome had to be placed in the design position with a tolerance not exceeding 1 centimeter.

China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) reported that on June 28, the first concrete was poured for Unit 3 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant in Zhejiang Province in eastern China, marking the beginning of the plant’s moment phase (Figure 2). ordered 11 nuclear arrays at the Qinshan and Sanmen power plants. The first two sets of the Sanmen power plant were connected to the grid and put into operation in 2018. Since then, they have generated more than 60 TWh of electricity, according to CNNC.

Once the two sets of the current Sanmen phase are fully compatible with the national ones, the plant will have a total installed capacity of five GW and will produce around 40 TWh per year. is of great importance for the province’s transition to green and low-carbon energy, as well as for its high-quality economic and social development,” CNNC said.

Kazakhstan Nuclear Power Plants LLP and nuclear generation supplier Korea Hydro

Kazakhstan’s government officials have said in the past that they are actively reading nuclear technologies provided through six global manufacturers: NuScale Power, U. S. and Kazakhstan. USA, NuScale reactor; GE-Hitachi, USA U. S. -Japan, BWRX-300 reactor; KHNP, South Korea, APR-1000 and APR-1400 reactors; CNNC, China, HPR-1000 and CNP-600 reactors; ROSATOM, Russia, VVER-1200 and VVER-1000 reactors; and Electricity of France, ATMEA1 reactor. According to the latest reports, however, only 4 models are being studied: Chinese, French, Korean and Russian.

A long-term nuclear power plant is expected to be built near Lake Balkhash in southern Kazakhstan. According to one report, the allocation of the nuclear power plant is not universally popular with the public, but the government “is the right thing to do. “Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Energy expects the structure to take up to 10 years, with the estimated load of an electric unit reaching $5 billion.

Vattenfall announced on June 28 that it would publish the feasibility of the structural situations of at least two small modular reactors (SMRs) adjacent to the Ringhals nuclear power plant.

“We want all the non-fossil energy resources to meet the developing demand for electric power in Sweden. SMR is a fossil-free generation that has come a long way lately, so we want the situations for the construction of small modular reactors near the Ringhals nuclear power plant,” Vattenfall EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Anna Borg said in a statement.

Although no investment resolution has been taken, Vattenfall’s control team has been actively reading the new features of nuclear power for several months. Provided that a feasibility examination concludes on its profitability and all other situations are met for a long-term investment resolution, adding new nuclear regulations. , deserves to be imaginable to have the first SMR reactor in operation in the early 2030s,” Borg said.

The Ringhals site is a suitable location for new nuclear power plants for several reasons. there is already a grid infrastructure in position that simplifies the connection of new electricity generation. There is also a lot of acceptance for the existing and new nuclear force at Ringhals and Forsmark. One of the main benefits is also the point of integral capacity that will be had in Ringhals. ” said Torbjörn Wahlborg, Director of Business Area Generation at Vattenfall.

Work on the feasibility study will begin and is expected to be completed in late 2023 or early 2024.

On June 29, Egypt’s Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority issued a permit for the structure of Unit 1 of the El-Dabaa nuclear power plant. The permit, as well as excavation paintings on site, are a prerequisite for the start of the main structure phase.

The El-Dabaa nuclear power plant will be Egypt’s first nuclear force plant. It will be built in the city of El Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast, about three hundred kilometers northwest of Cairo. The nuclear power plant will consist of 4 power sets of 1,200 MW each, with VVER-1200 reactors, a Generation III design. ROSATOM claims that this is the next-generation generation that is already working successfully. Four plants equipped with reactors of this generation operate in Russia, two each at the sites of the Novovoronezh and Leningrad Nuclear Power Plants. A VVER-1200 reactor also operates outside Russia at the Belarus nuclear power plant. It was connected to the grid in November 2020.

The El-Dabaa nuclear power plant (Figure 3) is under construction under a set of contracts that came into effect in December 2017. According to contractual obligations, the Russian side will not only build the plant, but also supply nuclear power plants. It will fuel for the entire life cycle of the nuclear power plant and assist Egyptian partners in personnel training, operational assistance and service during the first 10 years of its operation. Under a separate agreement, the Russian side will build a special garage facility and supply boxes for the spent nuclear fuel garage.

“Obtaining the structure permit for Unit 1 is a momentous opportunity that paves the way for the launch of the large-scale structure of the first nuclear power plant in Egypt,” Alexey Likhachev, executive leader of rosatom, said in a statement. “Rosatom will build a reliable, nuclear power plant with reactors based on the innovative Russian VVER-1200 Generation III design. It meets the highest protection criteria in the world and works effectively in Russia. The El-Dabaa nuclear power plant will be the first nuclear power plant of this generation on the African continent. This will further strengthen the country’s regional technological leadership.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) announced on June 27 that its SMR BWRX-300 (Figure 4) had been decided through SaskPower for a possible deployment in the mid-2030s.

“We are very pleased that SaskPower has decided on the BWRX-300 for carbon-free power generation,” Jay Wileman, president and CEO of GEH, said in a statement. “The BWRX-300 is the ideal SMR generation solution for SaskPower and consumers who need to have an impact on climate replacement and force safety over a significant period of time. There is the potential for great synergy between the work we plan to do with SaskPower and the ongoing work with Ontario Power Generation (OPG).

In December 2021, GEH decided through OPG as the generation partner for Darlington’s new nuclear project. OPG is expected to apply for a building permit this year, a vital step towards deploying the first BWRX-300. GEH aims to complete a BWRX-300 at the Darlington site from 2028.

If SaskPower finally goes ahead with the deployment of BWRX-300 technology, it will gain advantages from the classes learned from the OPG project. “This is a vital step as Saskatchewan works towards a cleaner and more sustainable future,” said Don Morgan, SaskPower’s guilty minister. “Conducting an independent and comprehensive assessment while engaging with other provinces in the strategic direction of the SMR has been incredibly valuable in achieving this vital milestone that could bring the nuclear force to Saskatchewan. “

GEH says there is significant and developing global interest in the BWRX-300. In addition to Canada, GEH has memoranda or other agreements in position to explore the deployment of generation with corporations in the United States, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, and the Czech Republic, among others.

—Aaron Larson is the editor-in-chief of POWER (@AaronL_Power, @POWERmagazine).

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