China achieved 100% localization of spare parts for AP1000 NPPs in Haiyang.
China has brought online the world’s first commercial supercritical carbon dioxide power generator – a revolutionary technology pioneered by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). This power generator, which uses carbon dioxide instead of steam to transfer heat, has been connected to the grid from a steel production plant in China’s southwestern province of to produce from waste heat, according to a social media post by CNNC’s Nuclear Power Institute of China on November 10. Once operational, the two 15-megawatt power units are expected to be 50 per cent more efficient at capturing and using waste heat from steel production to generate electricity than existing steam power technology.