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January-February, 2018
Volume 36 No. 1

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installed and concrete pouring for the dome was completed on Unit 3, and the Reactor Containment Liner Plate Rings,

Flamanville

On January 6, 2018, EDF completed Reactor Vessel, Steam Generators and the cold functional test phase for the Condenser were installed on Unit 4. Flamanville EPR. This stage is part of Meanwhile, testing and commissioning the system performance testing, which activities are progressing on Units 1 and started in the first quarter of 2017, to 2.

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Contact: ENEC, email: media@

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This cold functional test phase, which started on December 18, 2017, Paks

saw the successful completion of the Rolls-Royce

  • has
  • signed
  • a

leak performance test on the primary Memorandum of Understanding with system at a pressure greater than 240 bar Hungarian state-owned MVM OVIT (higher than the pressure of this system National Power Line Company Ltd, part in operation). More than 500 welds of the MVM Group, to explore how they were inspected during this hydrostatic can work together on the provision and testing, supervised by the Nuclear Safety maintenance of Instrumentation and
According to the agreement, CNNC will build a one-million-kilowatt-class nuclear power unit with HPR 1000 technology at the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan. It is the seventh nuclear power unit that China has exported to Pakistan and the third unit exported with HPR 1000 technology.

  • Authority.
  • control (I&C) systems for the second

EDF is now preparing hot functional reactor planned to be built at the Paks testing to be started in July 2018. The nuclear Power Plant in Hungary.

  • objective is to demonstrate the good
  • Paks currently comprises four

working order of the plant by testing Russian-supplied VVER-440 pressurized components with temperature and water reactors, which became operational pressure levels similar to operating between 1982 and 1987. These units

  • HPR 1000,
  • a
  • third-generation

pressurized water reactor independently developed by domestic research teams, is a key project in promoting the implementation of the Made in China 2025 initiative, and a driving force in realizing the country’s “going global” strategy.

  • conditions.
  • account for about half of Hungary’s

  • production. An inter-
  • Altogether, more than 1,000 EDF electricity

and industry partner engineers and governmental agreement signed in early technicians have been mobilised to 2014 would see Russian enterprises and

  • perform these system performance tests.
  • their international sub-contractors supply

Contact: ED F , t elephone: 33 (0) 40  two new units at Paks - VVER-1200

At present, the construction of four
HPR 1000 nuclear power units by CNNC is proceeding smoothly. They are the only third-generation pressurized water reactors in the world that are being built on schedule.

42 46 37, email: service-de-presse@edf. reactors. fr .

Contact: Romain Desgeorge, Rolls-
Royce, telephone: 33 (0) 4 76 61 16 17, email: romain.desgeorge.cn@rolls-

Barakah

The Emirates Nuclear Energy royce.com.
Corporation (ENEC) has successfully

The C-5 project will be constructed by CNNC China Zhongyuan Engineering Corp, a subsidiary of CNNC.

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achieved significant milestones in the Leningrad Phase II

  • construction development of its Barakah
  • Rosenergoatom has completed the

Nuclear Energy Plant, including the assembly of the reactor vessel for unit 1 energization of Unit 2 Main Power of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power Transformer Transformer and Unit Auxiliary Power Russia. The nuclear power plant operator Transformers (UAT). subsidiary of state nuclear corporation

  • (MTR),
  • Excitation plant, which is in Sosnovy Bor in western

Tianwan

Unit 3 of Tianwan Nuclear Power
Plant succeeded in connecting to the power grid in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, on Dec 30, 2017 with all technical indicators according with initial design requirements.
The energization of Unit 2’s MTR, Rosatom said the VVER-1200 was being
Excitation Transformer and UAT allows prepared for first criticality in January, for the initiation of Hot Functional 2018.

  • Testing (HFT). These achievements mark
  • The existing Leningrad plant site has

another set of milestones in the safe four operating RMBK-1000 units, while and steadily progressing construction of Leningrad II will have four VVER-1200 ENEC’s Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, units. Testing of the passive heat removal located in the Al Dhafra region of Abu system of unit 1 of Leningrad II was

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