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<strong>atw</strong> Vol. 63 (<strong>2018</strong>) | Issue 2 ı February<br />
130<br />
NEWS<br />
*)<br />
Net-based values<br />
(Czech and Swiss<br />
nuclear power<br />
plants gross-based)<br />
1)<br />
Refueling<br />
2)<br />
Inspection<br />
3)<br />
Repair<br />
4)<br />
Stretch-out-operation<br />
5)<br />
Stretch-in-operation<br />
6)<br />
Hereof traction supply<br />
7)<br />
Incl. steam supply<br />
8)<br />
New nominal<br />
capacity since<br />
January 2016<br />
9)<br />
Data for the Leibstadt<br />
(CH) NPP will<br />
be published in a<br />
further issue of <strong>atw</strong><br />
BWR: Boiling<br />
Water Reactor<br />
PWR: Pressurised<br />
Water Reactor<br />
Source: VGB<br />
by burning coal, natural gas, wood<br />
fuels and peat. While many Finnish<br />
cities have progressive climate policies<br />
and goals, they have struggled to<br />
decarbonise heating and liquid fuels,<br />
the society said. Rauli Partanen,<br />
vice-chair of the society and an independent<br />
energy analyst and author,<br />
said there are “significant economic<br />
possibilities” in producing combined<br />
heat and power (CHP) with nuclear<br />
reactors. He said: “With CHP, the<br />
reactor could produce roughly twice<br />
the value per installed capacity compared<br />
with just electricity production,<br />
while at the same time decarbonising<br />
heat production.” He said nuclear<br />
is great for baseload needs, but<br />
with advanced technologies such as<br />
high temperature reactors and high<br />
temperature electrolysis, nuclear can<br />
also be used to decarbonise not just<br />
electricity, heat but also transportation<br />
fuels and many industries”.<br />
| | www.vtt.fi<br />
EDF ‘Cannot build new<br />
reactors in France without<br />
guarantees’<br />
(nucnet) French state-controlled<br />
utility EDF can no longer build new<br />
nuclear reactors in France without<br />
state support, chief executive officer<br />
Jean-Bernard Levy was quoted as<br />
saying in an interview with the Ouest<br />
France daily newspaper. Asked when<br />
EDF could build new reactors at home,<br />
Mr Levy said: “Henceforth, we cannot<br />
build new reactors without adequate<br />
regulation providing guaranteed<br />
income”. He said the Flamanville-3<br />
EPR project under construction in<br />
northern France began at a time of<br />
high power prices and that now all<br />
power sources, nuclear as well as<br />
renewables, need to get “the same<br />
visibility on sales prices”. For its<br />
project to build two EPRs at Hinkley<br />
Point in the UK, EDF obtained an<br />
EU-approved state-guaranteed price<br />
of £92.5 per MWh over 35 years,<br />
which is above current market prices.<br />
The government of French president<br />
Emmanuel Macron is planning to close<br />
old reactors to reduce the share of nuclear<br />
energy in French power generation<br />
to 50% by around 2035 from 75 %<br />
today. Mr Levy said EDF expects to get<br />
approval to load nuclear fuel at<br />
Flamanville-3 at the end of <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
| | www.edf.com<br />
Japan’s Regulator:<br />
Kashiwazaki Kariwa-6 and -7<br />
meet new safety standards<br />
(nucnet) Units 6 and 7 of the<br />
Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power<br />
station in Niigata Prefecture, northwestern<br />
Japan, meet new regulatory<br />
standards imposed after the March<br />
2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident, the<br />
Nuclear Regulation Authority said.<br />
The two units, owned and operated<br />
by Tokyo Electric Power Company<br />
(Tepco) are the first boiling water<br />
reactors to meet the new standards.<br />
Tepco also owns the Fukushima-<br />
Daiichi station.<br />
Kashiwazaki Kariwa was not affected<br />
by the March 2011 earthquake and<br />
tsunami which damaged Fukushima-<br />
Daiichi, although the station’s seven<br />
reactors had all been offline for up to<br />
three years following a 2007 earthquake<br />
which damaged the site but did<br />
not damage the reactors themselves.<br />
While the units were offline, work<br />
was carried out to improve the<br />
facility’s earthquake resistance.<br />
Accord ing to JAIF, the governor of<br />
Niigata Prefecture, Ryuichi Yoneyama,<br />
has said he will not discuss restarting<br />
the two units until further information<br />
about nuclear incidents and their<br />
impact on public health is made available.<br />
Both units are 1,315-MW BWRS.<br />
Kashiwazaki Kariwa-6 began commercial<br />
operation in November 1996 and<br />
Kashiwazaki Kariwa-7 in July 1997.<br />
Tokyo-based nuclear industry<br />
group the Japan Atomic Industrial<br />
Forum said 14 nuclear units have now<br />
been approved by the NRA as meeting<br />
the new standards. They are<br />
Kashiwazaki Kariwa-6 and -7,<br />
Operating Results October 2017 (corrigendum, <strong>atw</strong> 1 (<strong>2018</strong>) p. 58)<br />
Plant name<br />
Type<br />
Nominal<br />
capacity<br />
gross<br />
[MW]<br />
net<br />
[MW]<br />
Operating<br />
time<br />
generator<br />
[h]<br />
Energy generated, gross<br />
[MWh]<br />
Time availability<br />
[%]<br />
Energy availability<br />
[%] *) Energy utilisation<br />
[%] *)<br />
Month Year Since Month Year Month Year Month Year<br />
commissioning<br />
KBR Brokdorf DWR 1480 1410 745 937 223 3 903 011 338 316 924 100.00 41.98 93.94 39.11 84.59 35.98<br />
KKE Emsland 4) DWR 1406 1335 745 1 004 762 9 304 398 333 303 977 100.00 91.93 99.93 91.77 95.81 90.70<br />
KWG Grohnde DWR 1430 1360 745 970 799 8 126 396 365 069 095 100.00 87.01 94.85 83.35 90.42 77.21<br />
KRB B Gundremmingen 4) SWR 1344 1284 745 778 570 8 351 414 330 004 358 100.00 91.83 100.00 90.98 76.78 84.52<br />
KRB C Gundremmingen SWR 1344 1288 745 968 428 7 990 831 318 640 904 100.00 85.41 99.83 83.30 96.32 81.<strong>02</strong><br />
KKI-2 Isar DWR 1485 1410 745 1 073 129 9 378 353 339 453 163 100.00 89.84 99.71 89.37 96.66 86.22<br />
KKP-2 Philippsburg DWR 1468 14<strong>02</strong> 745 1 046 248 5 745 846 353 059 535 100.00 55.80 99.92 55.72 94.15 52.80<br />
GKN-II Neckarwestheim DWR 1400 1310 745 1 011 300 8 549 400 318 131 734 100.00 86.71 99.50 86.46 97.13 83.84<br />
Operating Results November 2017<br />
Plant name<br />
Type<br />
Nominal<br />
capacity<br />
gross<br />
[MW]<br />
net<br />
[MW]<br />
Operating<br />
time<br />
generator<br />
[h]<br />
Energy generated, gross<br />
[MWh]<br />
Time availability<br />
[%]<br />
Energy availability Energy utilisation<br />
[%] *) [%] *)<br />
Month Year Since Month Year Month Year Month Year<br />
commissioning<br />
KBR Brokdorf DWR 1480 1410 720 942 685 4 845 695 339 259 608 100.00 47.20 93.97 44.04 88.16 40.67<br />
KKE Emsland 4) DWR 1406 1335 720 1 017 448 10 321 846 334 321 425 100.00 92.65 99.77 92.49 100.61 91.59<br />
KWG Grohnde DWR 1430 1360 446 586 675 8 713 070 365 655 769 61.99 84.77 56.84 80.97 56.57 75.35<br />
KRB B Gundremmingen 4) SWR 1344 1284 720 701 347 9 052 761 330 705 705 100.00 92.56 98.85 91.69 71.32 83.33<br />
KRB C Gundremmingen SWR 1344 1288 720 956 516 8 947 347 319 597 420 100.00 86.72 98.05 84.62 98.30 82.57<br />
KKI-2 Isar DWR 1485 1410 720 1 061 544 10 439 897 340 514 707 100.00 90.75 100.00 90.33 99.05 87.37<br />
KKP-2 Philippsburg DWR 1468 14<strong>02</strong> 720 1 042 562 6 788 408 354 1<strong>02</strong> 097 100.00 59.77 100.00 59.69 97.08 56.77<br />
GKN-II Neckarwestheim DWR 1400 1310 720 996 000 9 545 400 319 127 734 100.00 87.91 98.51 87.54 99.08 85.21<br />
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