Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The China syndrome (loss-of-coolant accident) is a nuclear reactor operations accident characterized by the severe meltdown of the core components of the reactor, which then burn through the containment vessel and the housing building, then (figuratively) through the crust and body of the Earth until reaching the opposite end, presumed to be in ...
The HTR-PM is a high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) pebble-bed reactor. While the German AVR and THTR-300, operating from 1969 to 1988, were the first pebble-bed reactors and operated at similar temperatures, the HTR-PM is the first such design using modular construction and the second small modular reactor, following Russia's Akademik Lomonosov floating plant in 2019.
As of 2020, China had 41 additional nuclear reactors planned and 168 proposed reactors under consideration. [36]: 197 China's under construction reactors accounted for 27% of worldwide reactors under construction. [36]: 197 As of at least 2023, China's goals for nuclear power expansion are the most ambitious of any country. [36]: 197
Five out of 60,000 fuel rods (0.01%) in reactor core 1 were estimated to be suffering from cladding defects. The ratio was well within design maximum fault rate of 0.25%. CGN stated there had been no release of radiation from the plant, and the small increase in the level of radioactivity was confined to the primary coolant circuit.
In June 2014, China First Heavy Industries completed the first domestically produced AP1000 reactor pressure vessel for the second AP1000 unit. [13] The units were originally projected to begin operation in 2014 and 2015. In April 2015, a start date of 2016 was projected for both. [14] One month later, the start date was put back to 2017.
A new paper details two tests of a nuclear plant that can’t melt down. The durability is due to natural qualities, like insulated fuel and the density of heated gas.
Though China continued developing more advanced nuclear technology and weapons, by the 1980s, the country had indicated that it intended on accepting the terms of the NPT. [33] China acceded to the treaty in 1992. [34] China was active in the six-party talks in an effort to end North Korea's nuclear program in the early 2000s.
The New York Times reported differently, quoting one of the shareholders of the plant, China Light & Power (CLP), a Hong Kong–based utility, that the government nuclear safety watchdog in both mainland China and Hong Kong were notified and briefed. CLP said in a statement that the leak was small and fell below international standards ...