Monday 18 February 2013

First Hongyanhe unit connected to the grid

First Hongyanhe unit connected to the grid: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-First_Hongyanhe_unit_connected_to_the_grid-1802134.html#.USJTkTUrvew.facebook "The 1080 MWe Chinese-designed pressurized water reactor was connected to the grid at 3.09pm on 17 February. It now enters a phase of commissioning tests, after which it will enter commercial operation.
Hongyanhe 1 is the first of four CPR-1000 reactors currently being built at the Hongyanhe Phase I project. Its construction started in August 2007. Cold testing of the nuclear island of the unit was successfully completed in October 2012; it achieved first criticality on 16 January."

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