Surge in New Nuclear Power Completions

Modernity depends on baseline grid power and nuclear does this wonderfully and close at hand to markets.  Line loss is real and a five hundred mile radius is best.  Even geothermal is geographically controlled.

The only better solution technically available will be the athmospheric pressure cooling tower type system that also naturally taps Corollis force as the power takeoff as well.  Just never built yet.

understand the long life of these facilities.  They are not been torn down because it is simply better to keep them going.  just like a large power dam.

We can really wait for thorium cycle reactors to chew up all the nasties produced to date.

Surge in New Nuclear Power Completions

April 30, 2024 by Brian Wang

Unit 2 of the Shin Hanul nuclear power plant in South Korea has entered commercial operation, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced. The unit is the second of two APR-1400 reactors at the site, with a further two planned.

Georgia Power has announced the start of commercial operations at the second of the two AP1000 units built as an expansion of the existing two-unit Vogtle plant. The plant is now the largest generator of clean energy in the USA. Vogtle 4 reached first criticality in February and was connected to the grid in March, following Vogtle 3 which entered commercial operation in July 2023. They are the first new nuclear units to be constructed in the USA in more than 30 years.

The US Vogtle plant 3 and 4 and the Shin Hanul all started construction in 2013.

France’s nuclear regulator has launched a three-week public consultation on its draft decision to authorise the commissioning of the Flamanville EPR reactor, which has a summer 2024 target for connection to the grid. Construction work began in December 2007 on the 1650 MWe unit at the Flamanville site in Normandy – where two reactors have been operating since 1986 and 1987. The dome of the reactor building was put in place in July 2013 and the reactor vessel was installed in January 2014. The reactor was originally expected to start commercial operation in 2013.

Eight nuclear reactors are completing in 2024, ten in 2025 and ten in 2026.