The first concrete has been poured at the Taishan nuclear power plant in Guangdong province, China, marking the official start of construction for the site's second EPR unit...
...According to construction arrangements, the civil engineering works for the nuclear island of Taishan unit 2 will be carried out by China Construction Second Engineering Bureau Co Ltd, a unit of the China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC).
Areva is constructing two 1650 MWe EPRs at Taishan under contracts signed in November 2007. The units are modelled on the EPR currently being built at Flamanville in France. Construction of Taishan 1 began in October 2009 and earlier this month the initial section of the steel liner of its reactor building was lifted into place. The Taishan units are scheduled to start up in 2013 and 2015, respectively.
Electricité de France (EdF) and CGNPC have created a joint venture - Guangdong Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co Ltd (TNPC) - to co-own and operate the two Taishan reactors. EdF holds 30% of the joint venture company.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-First_concrete_for_second_Taishan_reactor-1604105.html">First concrete for second Taishan reactor.
The EPR is the European Pressurized Reactor, and is designed to run on flexible fuels, and can burn plutonium, thorium or enriched uranium.
Currently units are under construction in Finland and in France. (Finland is considering yet another reactor, although it is not clear that it will be an EPR.)
When complete, each reactor will produce, at 95% capacity utilization, about 50 petajoules of energy, meaning that each reactor alone will produce more than 200% of the energy that Denmark is able to produce in an entire country filled with whirling, breaking metal.
Notably, it took Denmark more than 30 years to construct its monstrosity.
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