Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire: CGNPC

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Monday, December 6, 2010

Chinese group offers speedy nuclear plant

China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation says the commissioning of new nuclear power could be pushed forward to 2020.

CHINA’s state-owned energy group, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation (CGNPC), said on Friday that the commissioning of new nuclear power could be pushed forward to 2020, instead of the 2023 deadline proposed in the Department of Energy’s second integrated resource plan (IRP2010).

An earlier commissioning of new power will require a quick decision on the nuclear programme.

The IRP2010 makes provision for an additional 9500MW of nuclear power by 2030. According to the plan, which directs the expansion of electricity supply over the next 20 years, new nuclear capacity can come on stream in 2023.

But in a presentation at the d epartment’s hearings on IRP2010, CGNPC said the first new nuclear power plant could come on line in 2020, instead of 2023.

The government is expected to make a decision on the nuclear programme next year once the current IRP process is completed. The government has said that preparatory work must commence more than 12 years before a single watt of power is produced from a new nuclear plant.

This makes commissioning of new capacity by 2020 unlikely.

One of the presenters at Friday’s hearings, Paul White of the Fossil Fuel Foundation, said there was a concern that 12- 13 years was not a "long enough lead time" for the ordering, design, supply, construction and commissioning of a plant.

CGNPC said nuclear power was a practical way to meet SA’s energy demand and was "the most mature and reliable base-load energy option, with the least life-cycle cost".

Paul Eardley-Taylor, head of energy, utilities and infrastructure coverage at Standard Bank , said nuclear providers such as CGNPC and South Korea’s state-owned Korea Electric Power Corporation could build nuclear plants at lower engineering, procurement and construction costs.More at:http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=128640

Thursday, November 25, 2010

China prepares to export reactors

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-China_prepares_to_export_reactors-2511101.html
Starting from French reactors imported in the 1980s, Chinese engineers have developed their own large reactor systems to the point that exports appear possible from 2013.

Zhang Shanming, president of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corporation (CGNPC), revealed the company's future export potential to delegates at the China International Nuclear Symposium, organised in Beijing this week by the World Nuclear Association and China Nuclear Energy Association.

Having imported two 900 MWe pressurized water reactors for the Daya Bay nuclear power plant, CGNPC engineers embarked on a development program that led to the CPR-1000 design. The first of these began operation at Ling Ao Phase II in September, while 16 are under construction and many more planned. A domestic supply chain has been built up with each project and now only about ten percent of components need to be imported.

By 2013, Zhang said, a further design evolution will clear certain areas of intellectual property retained by Areva, resulting in a Generation III design called the ACPR-1000 that CGNPC could market in other countries.

The current CPR-1000 design sits roughly between today's mainstream Generation II reactors and the latest Generation III units, with digital instrumentation and control systems and a design life of 60 years. Standard construction time is 52 months, and the unit cost for Chinese units so far has been under CNY 10,000 ($1500) per kilowatt.