'Inherently safe': China revives nuclear power with world's first fourth-generation reactor

December 11 2023 16

Commercialization of new of technologies – the fastest way to develop and implement them. This week, China launched the world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor, giving a huge boost to the entire industry. Reuters reports this.

Beijing has taken a step ahead of rivals in civil nuclear power technology by launching the world's first new generation reactor plant this week. Thus, the psychological and economic global industry threshold.

As many countries begin to recognize that nuclear power generation will play an important role in the energy transition by providing additional clean generation, the race has begun to develop the latest generation of civil nuclear technologies. And this week China gained an advantage in that grueling race.

The Shidaowan nuclear power plant, where a reactor is installed in one of the power units, began commercial operation of the installation on December 6. After several days of sea and practical tests, a statement was made on the official website of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).

A demonstration sample of a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor was developed in China on its own. Generation IV(+) reactors are considered the safest and most efficient.

This means China has built the world's first commercial modular nuclear power plant with fourth-generation nuclear technology, marking the transition from experimentation to the commercial market. This type of reactor can produce heat, electricity and hydrogen.

Tests have confirmed that installations of this type and industrial scale can be cooled naturally without emergency core cooling systems. This is the so-called inherently safe reactor. He is reviving nuclear energy from the ashes of doubt and negativity.

By comparison, Western countries only plan to launch their fourth-generation nuclear reactors in the early 2030s. For Beijing, often accused of exceeding all standards and tolerances for environmental pollution, the introduction of new technologies is the only way to gain indulgence from accusations of building the dirtiest economy in the world.

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prior

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11 December 2023 10: 43

China built the world's first commercial modular nuclear power plant with fourth-generation nuclear technology

And communist ideology did not stop him.
What about our liberals?
And our liberals have a cosmic rise in prices for simple chicken eggs!
Such are the achievements of liberal ideology.
1. Nelton
  
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  11 December 2023 11: 17
  
  Quote: prior
  What about our liberals?
  
  In the nuclear industry, what are the complaints against them?
  Develop.
  from VVER-1000 to VVER-1200 and VVER-TOI.
  for fast neutrons - from BN-600 to BN-800 and further to BN-1200M.
  Which, as they say, allows the use of waste from foreign nuclear power plants as fuel.
  in the middle size class -
  from KLT-40 to RITM-200.
  1. jekasimf
    
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    11 December 2023 12: 13
    
    I’ll try to add “for dummies”. There is no single criterion for a 4th generation reactor. Different countries consider 4th generation reactors to be DIFFERENT reactors!!! And in Russia, much earlier, they built THEIR 4th generation reactors!
  2. prior
    
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    11 December 2023 12: 28
    
    VVER-1000 was launched in 1980 at the Novovoronezh NPP.
    So, everything you listed is actually a Soviet legacy, a Soviet foundation.
    Do you know why the nuclear industry in Russia was not destroyed?
    Yes, only because politicians don’t understand a damn thing about nuclear physics.
    Otherwise it would be the same as with aviation, mechanical engineering, space, medicine, education, culture...... and the list goes on.
    1. Nelton
      
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      11 December 2023 13: 00
      
      Quote: prior
      VVER-1000 was launched in 1980 shaggy year
      
      That's why I'm writing, "from VVER-1000 k...".
      
      This is actually a Soviet legacy, a Soviet foundation.
      
      This is a serious development of that groundwork.
      Both quantitatively, in terms of constructed power units, and qualitatively, in terms of the development/construction of new generation power units.
      
      it would be like with aviation, mechanical engineering, space, medicine, education, culture...... and the list goes on.
      
      What list?
      Are you writing from Zhmerinka, and you think that if you don’t have development, then there isn’t any in the Russian Federation?
      1. prior
        
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        13 December 2023 13: 21
        
        Getting personal (Are you from Zhmerinka) is the last argument when there is nothing substantive to say.
        
        Nelton
        
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        13 December 2023 14: 06
        
        Quote: prior
        when there is nothing substantive to say.
        
        what a generalization - this is the answer.
        Among the comments, speculations on the topic that the modern Russian Federation is [...a very bad...] state, in which everything has been destroyed and destroyed, from the army and navy to medicine and roads, are surprisingly popular.
        And every time there is not always time to give reasoned and detailed examples of the opposite for each industry.
        
        Here's some medicine, and just in the last couple of weeks -
        
        In the village of Ytyk-Kyuel, Tattinsky district of Yakutia, a clinic has been opened for 200 visits per shift.
        
        A new building of the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital was opened in Orenburg
        
        In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a new obstetric building of the Yenisei Hospital
        
        December 1, the new building of the Tula Regional Oncology Center
        
        The country's largest Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital No. 1 admitted its first patients
        
        A new clinic opened near Novosibirsk in Krasnoobsk
        https://dzen.ru/a/ZXR8rSvpzjQhdZ1K
        
        Nelton
        
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        13 December 2023 16: 23
        
        Quote from Nelton.
        take medicine, and just in the last couple of weeks -
        
        and here it is today -
        
        A new flagship center of the City Clinical Hospital has been opened. S.P. Botkin in Moscow and the Moscow Urological Center, created on the basis of the 20th building of the hospital.
        
        And let us note that all this is happening against the backdrop of the SVO, which objectively wastes considerable funds.
    2. RUR
      
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      11 December 2023 21: 27
      
      then politicians don’t understand a damn thing about nuclear physics.
      Otherwise it would be like with aviation, mechanical engineering, space, medicine,
      
      Do you think it means that politicians understand and understand aviation, mechanical engineering, space, medicine, and that’s why they ruined it?
strange guest

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11 December 2023 10: 44

Well done. But coal generation will be cheaper.
1. Elena123
  
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  11 December 2023 15: 34
  
  If it’s about money, then yes, but what about the future for the Planet?
Blast

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11 December 2023 22: 38

A gas-cooled reactor is somehow miraculously cooled naturally..., some kind of dissonance... I can still imagine our Brest project with a lead coolant with natural cooling, with natural circulation of molten lead, judging by the heat capacity of the carrier, but natural gas Cooling doesn't work at all... We should be more specific about what the 4th generation is...
AlexSam

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12 December 2023 03: 07

I wonder if Rosatom, the greatest leader of our time in the field of nuclear energy, will make any comments on the topic of the world's first fourth-generation reactor?
1. jekasimf
  
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  12 December 2023 11: 26
  
  I will assume that you do not know how to use search sites. Therefore...., for reference: Rosatom has built TWO power units in China, and is building TWO more!!!! China has NOT built a single one in Russia! And there are no plans!
  Are they capable of adding two to the 2nd? If you haven’t understood yet, then the example is analogous: China produces its 5th generation aircraft (they consider them 4th), they claim that they are cooler than our SU 57, but, at the same time, they are produced in China and the engines installed on them have still not even reached the level of ours - the AL-31F, created back in the USSR. They cannot even master the variable thrust vector.... So don’t be fooled by the “all-out” article.
  Rosatom quietly and calmly does its job.
Fizik13

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13 December 2023 20: 09

That’s who, and the Chinese always say, “squeal” to the whole world, only after they have already done and tested everything.
This is all the machinations of the Anglo-Saxons, they have screwed themselves up and want to frame everyone under this brush...