[Vo]:China Details Next-Gen Nuclear Reactor Program

[Mats Lewan]

No big news but interesting perspectives on China's interest in and funding of 
advanced nuclear power production. 

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/542526/china-details-next-gen-nuclear-reactor-program/

Mats
www.animpossibleinvention.com

Re: [Vo]:China Details Next-Gen Nuclear Reactor Program

[a.ashfield]

Mats,
Although the LFTR has fundamental advantages, the moving pebble bed 
reactor is much further along and will be cheaper to build.  That you 
can have lots of small units scattered around much eases the power 
distribution problem too.


"A proposal to construct two 600 MWe high-temperature gas-cooled 
reactors (HTRs) 
 
at Ruijin city in China's Jiangxi province has passed a preliminary 
feasibility review, China Nuclear Engineering Corporation (CNEC) 
recently announced.


The Jiangxi provincial development and reform commission has already 
given the go-ahead to begin preliminary work at Ruijin and construction 
of the reactors is expected to start in 2017, with grid connection in 2021


The design of the Ruijin HTRs is based on the smaller demonstration 
HTR-PM under construction at Shidaowan near Weihai city in Shandong 
province. That plant will initially comprise twin HTR-PM reactor modules 
driving a single 210 MWe steam turbine. Construction started in late 
2012. CNEC said civil construction work on the HTR-PM is nearing 
completion and equipment installation would soon begin. The 
demonstration unit is scheduled to start commercial operation in late 2017."


http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/04/china-moving-towards-approving-dozen.html