China completes outer dome on overseas Hualong One reactor in Pakistan

[beijingwalker]

China completes outer dome on overseas Hualong One reactor in Pakistan

Reuters•June 19, 2019

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has finished building the outer safety dome at its first overseas "Hualong One" nuclear reactor in Pakistan, with the project scheduled to be finished by the end of 2020, the China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) said late Tuesday.

China is hoping to use its third-generation Hualong One design to boost its presence in the overseas nuclear power sector and it is already making plans to build projects in Argentina and Britain.

CNNC described the completion of the double-layered steel dome on the containment building of the Karachi 2 nuclear power plant in Pakistan as a milestone that would help demonstrate China's Hualong One technology worldwide. The firm is building two Hualong One units at the site.

China developed the Hualong One reactor as a rival to the Westinghouse-developed AP1000 and Europe's "Evolutionary Pressurised Reactor", with both models beset by cost overruns and construction delays.

The world's first Hualong One reactor is set to go into operation ahead of schedule in the southeast Chinese province of Fujian late next year.

CNNC said its four demonstration projects in China and Pakistan are progressing in an orderly manner, noting that they "are the only third-generation pressurised water reactor projects in the world that are being constructed on schedule."


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[Max]

Is this design approved by IAEA and other world bodies? why we are buying untested design? i hope we don't have Chernobyl in Karachi (city of 20 million people).

 

[beijingwalker]

Is this design approved by IAEA and other world bodies? why we are buying untested design? i hope we don't have Chernobyl in Karachi (city of 20 million people).

List of nuclear power accidents by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country

Don't see China on the list.

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

Is this design approved by IAEA and other world bodies? why we are buying untested design? i hope we don't have Chernobyl in Karachi (city of 20 million people).

Atleast that would finally take care of the garbage on the streets. Cause the people sure wont

 

[Max]

Atleast that would finally take care of the garbage on the streets. Cause the people sure wont

sorry, What nuclear plant got to do with garbage?

List of nuclear power accidents by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country

Don't see China on the list.

all i am saying is we should buy those designs which are well tested and already in operation.

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

sorry, What nuclear plant got to do with garbage?



all i am saying is we should buy those designs which are well tested and already in operation.

Light hearted joke about your concern for the safety of the design

 

[Jungibaaz]

Is this design approved by IAEA and other world bodies? why we are buying untested design? i hope we don't have Chernobyl in Karachi (city of 20 million people).

Not possible without very poor design. Chernobyl had a light water graphite reactor with a positive void coefficient that instead of decreasing reactivity at the build up of steam, it increased it, it causes a feedback loop that when coupled with the poorly designed control rods led to an explosion.

What’s being built here is a containment building as a failsafe against meltdowns. Chernobyl didn’t have this either. But given that we aren’t too far from fault lines other disasters are probably still concerning, re Fukushima. Maybe a more knowledgable member can shed some light on that risk.

 

[HRK]

all i am saying is we should buy those designs which are well tested and already in operation.

all your concerns are already addressed by concern authorities, if you remember the construction of these nuclear plants were challenged by so called civil society in the court and was permitted after the thorough judicial hearing ....

 

[war&peace]

Hualong is one of the best technology in the nuclear power production. Thank you China.

 

[Crystal-Clear]

Thankyou China.

 

[beijingwalker]

all i am saying is we should buy those designs which are well tested and already in operation.

"The world's first Hualong One reactor is set to go into operation ahead of schedule in the southeast Chinese province of Fujian late next year."

This new reactor is designed to be meltdown proof, no technology is always better than the old.