NEI Catch-Up Newsletter - 6th November 2023
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Location of Poland's first nuclear power plant approved
The Pomeranian Voivode (governor) Dariusz Drelich has issued a decision determining the location of investments in the construction of Poland's first nuclear power plant. This relates to three AP1000 西屋电气公司 reactors with a total capacity of 3750 MWe. This allows Polskie Elektrownie J?drowe to use the area for preparatory activities such as indicating, among other things, specific plots for implementation of the investment.
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Final bids submitted for new Dukovany NPP units
Czech power utility ?EZ II (EDU II), a wholly owned subsidiary has received three final bids for the construction of a new unit at the Dukovany NPP. US-based Westinghouse, France’s EDF and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) submitted binding bids for Dukovany 5 and non-binding bids for the other three units. Westinghouse is proposing its AP1000, KHNP its APR1000 based in the APR1400 and EDF its EPR1200 (a smaller version of its standard EPR). These are all pressurised water reactors. Russia and China were excluded from the bidding in 2021.
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Japan and US expand cooperation on fast reactors
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency , Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR), and US-based TerraPower have expanded their January 2022 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the development of sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) technologies.
Japan's government in December 2018 adopted a strategic roadmap for fast reactor development whereby it would assess the efficacy of various types of fast reactors following a technological competition among private-sector corporations.
EDF plans outages at Cattenom NPP to save fuel
EDF says additional outages at the 1,300 MWe units 1&2 of its Cattenom NPP are planned to save about six months-worth of fuel before their next scheduled refuelling in 2025. “As of today Cattenom 1 will have to save a quantity of fuel equivalent to 160 days of full load operation” before its next refuelling outage scheduled for April 2025, EDF noted in a statement.
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