High temperature gas cooled reactor design is being developed at Tsinghua University
China's Huaneng Group has launched a demonstration of its PBMR nuclear power project at a plant in Shandong Province according to an English language report on CCTV.
Parties involved in the project signed agreements in Beijing on Oct 7. The HTR-PM project, which stands for ""High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Pebble-bed Module"" is the most advanced nuclear reactor in China. It is being developed by Tsinghua University and is expected to have an installed capacity of 200 MW.
Zhang Yanke, Deputy President of China Huaneng Group said "This nuclear power plant can save 550 thousand tons of coal a year, and cut carbon dioxide emission by one million tons, compared to thermal plants with the same capacity."
According to the CCTV report under the nuclear power development plan, China will have nuclear power generating units with a capacity of over 40 GW by 2020. If the country achieves that level, nuclear power will account for 4% of the country's total power generating capacity.
On the net
- MIT collaboration with China on Pebble Bed Reactor
4 comments:
Dan:
I think there are a couple of orders of magnitude missing in the following quote from above: "...China will have nuclear power generating units with a capacity of over 40 MW by 2020."
I am pretty sure that M should be a G.
Rod Adams
Editor, Atomic Insights
I don't know why I can't get my zeros straight on Saturdays. Thanks for catching the typo.
I thought china was targeting 70 GW of nuclear by 2020 and have 100 Westinghouse AP1000 [1.2GW going up to 1.6GW each as later AP1000 get bigger] built of being built by 2020
China's estimates of its plans for new nuclear energy are focused on very significant goals. There is no question the country is committed to an energy future that includes a significant role for new reactors. However, China has also recently committed (January 2009) to a major construction program for transportation infrastructure, and demands for near term employment associated with road and railroad construction may cause the energy plans to change over time.
For a current overview of nuclear energy in China see the World Nuclear Organization briefing for December 2008 at this URL:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf63.html
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