First Concrete Poured For Second Tiashan EPR Nuclear Reactor.

NNadir

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First Concrete Poured For Second Tiashan EPR Nuclear Reactor.

The first concrete has been poured at the Taishan nuclear power plant in Guangdong province, China, marking the official start of construction for the site's second EPR unit...

...According to construction arrangements, the civil engineering works for the nuclear island of Taishan unit 2 will be carried out by China Construction Second Engineering Bureau Co Ltd, a unit of the China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC).

Areva is constructing two 1650 MWe EPRs at Taishan under contracts signed in November 2007. The units are modelled on the EPR currently being built at Flamanville in France. Construction of Taishan 1 began in October 2009 and earlier this month the initial section of the steel liner of its reactor building was lifted into place. The Taishan units are scheduled to start up in 2013 and 2015, respectively.

Electricit� de France (EdF) and CGNPC have created a joint venture - Guangdong Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co Ltd (TNPC) - to co-own and operate the two Taishan reactors. EdF holds 30% of the joint venture company.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-First_concrete_for_second_Taishan_reactor-1604105.html">First concrete for second Taishan reactor.

The EPR is the European Pressurized Reactor, and is designed to run on flexible fuels, and can burn plutonium, thorium or enriched uranium.

Currently units are under construction in Finland and in France. (Finland is considering yet another reactor, although it is not clear that it will be an EPR.)

When complete, each reactor will produce, at 95% capacity utilization, about 50 petajoules of energy, meaning that each reactor alone will produce more than 200% of the energy that Denmark is able to produce in an entire country filled with whirling, breaking metal.

Notably, it took Denmark more than 30 years to construct its monstrosity.

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Mon Apr-19-10 06:02 PM
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1. 1650 MWe is massive. I wonder which design China will finally decide on.

They are building a few (4x AP100, 2x EPR, 2x ABWR) of each but ultimately China has decided they want to decide on a single design once they get couple years of real world data out of them.

The goal would be to move as much production as possible into factories that run 24/7 to churn out the components necessary to build over 100 reactors in next two decades.

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Mon Apr-19-10 06:27 PM
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2. Unfortunately 100 will not cut emissions. :/

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Statistical

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Mon Apr-19-10 06:33 PM
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3. No but expecting more from China than from 1st world is simply false expectation.

The US and rest of first world gladly dumped trillion upon trillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere over the course of a century. Even when it became obvious this was unsustainable in the 1970s we continued to build fossil fuel plants. Now that we have reaped the benefits of a century of ultra cheap power to expect that China will change because we want to change is foolish.

At best we can hope China curbs their emissions. China will reduce fossil fuels for economic security reasons. Their current consumption of coal now exceeds their production which means they need to import it (along with natural gas, and oil). China will attempt to diversify away from coal for purely strategic reasons.

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Mon Apr-19-10 06:37 PM
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4. Just don't buy their lying "energy entensity" promises.

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Statistical

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Mon Apr-19-10 08:15 PM
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6. Well their energy intensity is substantially lower than ours.

Edited on Mon Apr-19-10 08:20 PM by Statistical

The US yelling at China about emissions is like an obese man on a diet complaining the average weight guy is eating too many calories. China just passed US in CO2 emissions however they have 6x the people. We are the largest wasters of energy on the planet bar none.

Look at the only countries with worse energy intensity than us. Russia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Canada. Notice anything about those climates? The US is blessed with a rather temperate climate will still waste an unbelievable amount of energy.

Can China do better? Of course they can but we are far far far worse than China. We don't even have an excuse we went through the industrial revolution over a hundred years ago.

Based on our technology level there is no reason that US energy intensity isn't more comparable to the rest of the G7, no reason other than laziness and greed.

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NNadir

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Mon Apr-19-10 06:55 PM
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5. That's nonsense.

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Mon Apr-19-10 08:39 PM
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7. I think they've settled on the AP1000

Probably because Westinghouse has committed to technology transfer so that China can build them domestically.

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