atw 2017-07

atw Vol. 62 (2017) | Issue 7 ı July
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spoke at a joint press conference with
his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip
Erdogan after a meeting on 3 May
2017 in the Russian town of Sochi.
Akkuyu, Turkey’s first nuclear power
station, is to be built in cooperation
with Russia’s state nuclear corporation
Rosatom under a contract
signed in 2010. The station will have
four 1,200-MW VVER units. In
March 2017, Akkuyu Nuclear, the joint
stock company in charge of the
project, applied for a construction
licence to the Turkish Atomic Energy
Authority.
| | www.rosatom.ru, 3845
Westinghouse remains
committed to AP1000 reactor
technology and new projects
(nucnet) Westinghouse is committed
to its Generation III+ AP1000 reactor
technology and will continue existing
projects to build units at Sanmen
and Haiyang in China, the company
told NucNet in an email on 3 May
2017. The first AP1000 units at
Sanmen and Haiyang are “moving
into the final stage of fuel loading”
and the first Sanmen unit is on
track to begin commercial operation
by the end of 2017, a spokesperson
said. There are two AP1000s under
construction at each site. The spokesperson
said the company will
continue to pursue other potential
AP1000 projects because they
will be structured in a manner that
does not include construction risk.
Westinghouse, the US-based nuclear
unit of Japan’s Toshiba, filed for
bankruptcy protection in the US in
March. The spokesperson said this
was because of a write-down related
to the increased estimated cost to
complete its US AP1000 projects
at Vogtle in Georgia Summer in
South Carolina, where there are
two AP1000s under construction at
each site. Asked about plans to build
six AP1000s in Andhra Pradesh, India,
the spokesperson said: “We continue
to pursue the India bids as they
were structured in a manner that
does not include construction risk.”
The spokesperson said Westinghouse
will continue to cooperate with
the UK on the development and
eventual deployment of a small
modular reactor. “We believe there
is great value in the Westinghouse
SMR, which applies the AP1000
plant safety technology into a
200 MW-class reactor.”
| | www.westinghousenuclear.com,
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Regulator issues permit for
operation of Ignalina Interim
Spent Fuel Facility
(nucnet) The Lithuanian State Nuclear
Power Safety Inspectorate (Vatesi) has
issued a permit for the start of
commercial operation of an interim
spent fuel storage facility at the
Ignalina nuclear power station in the
northeast of Lithuania. Vatesi told
NucNet that hot tests had been
completed at the facility on 4 May
2017. During the tests, 10 casks, each
weighing around 100 tonnes, were
loaded with spent fuel and moved to
the facility, where operation was
tested in real conditions. Ignalina
Nuclear Power Plant, or INPP, said it
plans to move all spent fuel to the new
facility until the end of 2022. Vatesi
said INPP plans to use the facility to
store about 190 containers with
17,000 spent fuel rods over 50 years.
The facility was designed and
built by the German GNS-Nukem
consortium, a joint venture between
GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service
and Nukem. When the contract was
signed in 2005 Nukem said the cost
ceiling for the project was € 193 m
($ 211 m).
| | www.iae.lt, 9834
Market data
(All information is supplied without
guarantee.)
Nuclear fuel supply
market data
Information in current (nominal)
U.S.-$. No inflation adjustment of
prices on a base year. Separative work
data for the formerly “secondary
market”. Uranium prices [US-$/lb
U 3 O 8 ; 1 lb = 453.53 g; 1 lb U 3 O 8 =
0.385 kg U]. Conversion prices
[US-$/kg U], Separative work [US-$/
SWU (Separative work unit)].
January to December 2013
• Uranium: 34.00–43.50
• Conversion: 9.25–11.50
• Separative work: 98.00–127.00
January to December 2014
• Uranium: 28.10–42.00
• Conversion: 7.25–11.00
• Separative work: 86.00–98.00
January to June 2015
• Uranium: 35.00–39.75
• Conversion: 7.00–9.50
• Separative work: 70.00–92.00
June to December 2015
• Uranium: 35.00–37.45
• Conversion: 6.25–8.00
• Separative work: 58.00–76.00
2016
January to June 2016
• Uranium: 26.50–35.25
• Conversion: 6.25–6.75
• Separative work: 58.00–62.00
July 2016
• Uranium: 26.50–27.80
• Conversion: 6.00–6.50
• Separative work: 58.00–62.00
August 2016
• Uranium: 22.25–26.40
• Conversion: 5.50–5.75
• Separative work: 58.00–62.00
September 2016
• Uranium: 22.25–22.75
• Conversion: 5.50–5.75
• Separative work: 52.00–55.00
October 2016
• Uranium: 19.60–22.90
• Conversion: 5.50–5.75
• Separative work: 49.00–53.00
November 2016
• Uranium: 18.50–18.90
• Conversion: 5.50–5.75
• Separative work: 48.00–51.00
December 2016
• Uranium: 18.75–21.50
• Conversion: 5.50–5.75
• Separative work: 47.00–50.00
2017
January 2017
• Uranium: 20.25–25.50
• Conversion: 5.50–6.75
• Separative work: 47.00–50.00
February 2017
• Uranium: 23.50–26.50
• Conversion: 5.50–6.75
• Separative work: 48.00–50.00
March 2017
• Uranium: 24.00–26.00
• Conversion: 5.50–6.75
• Separative work: 47.00–50.00
April 2017
• Uranium: 22.50–23.50
• Conversion: 5.00–5.50
• Separative work: 45.50–48.50
| | Source: Energy Intelligence
www.energyintel.com
Cross-border price
for hard coal
Cross-border price for hard coal in
[€/t TCE] and orders in [t TCE] for
use in power plants (TCE: tonnes of
coal equivalent, German border):
2012: 93.02; 27,453,635
2013: 79.12, 31,637,166
2014: 72.94, 30,591,663
2015: 67.90; 28,919,230
2016: 67.07; 29,787,178
I. quarter: 56.87; 8,627,347
II. quarter: 56.12; 5,970,240
III. quarter: 65.03, 7.257.041
IV. quarter: 88.28; 7,932,550
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