Nuclear

Akkuyu
Installed generating capacity in Turkey, 1998.	PWR design.	PWR design.
PWR plant layout.

Angra-3 PWR Nuclear
Average annual collective radioactive doses at PWR plants around the world. Source: Framatome.	Angra-3 will be located close to the two existing plants.	GDP, energy and electricity growth in Brazil (1970–1998).
Brazil has over 5% of total world uranium deposits.	A 1,24MWe PWR reactor project is planned for Angra.	Role of Eletronuclear in nuclear power plant construction and operation.
Angra-3 will cost around $1,835m to complete and will add 1,224MWe to Brazil's supply.

Atucha Nuclear Power Plant
Areva has been responsible for building over 100 nuclear power plants.	Areva took over Atucha-1 after Siemens left the nuclear energy business.	Simplified flow diagram of a pressure vessel heavy water cooled and moderated reactor.
Circuit parameters for Atucha-1 pressure vessel HWR.	Horizontal section of Atucha pressure vessel HWR.

Barsebäck
Barsebäck location.	Barsebäck One was shut down on 30 November 1999.	Barsebäck Two was closed in May 2005.
Barsebäck One and Two are scheduled for demolition.

Belene Nuclear Power Plant
The Bulgarian Government decided to restart the Belene Nuclear Power project in 2002, but it has not been without controversy.	The Belene plant consists of two modern units of VVER type reactors, capacity rated at 1,000MW each.	NEK EAD and RWE Power are developing the Belene plant under a joint venture agreement.

Browns Ferry Nuclear
The three Browns Ferry Boiling Water Reactors together produce 3.4GW. (TVA)	TVA’s Browns Ferry 1 reactor has been returned to service.	Browns Ferry has three General Electric boiling water reactors. (DoE)
Browns Ferry was brought back on line in June 2007. (TVA)	Evacuation routes from Browns Ferry (TVA)	Browns Ferry is on the north shore of Wheeler Reservoir. (TVA)

Bruce Power Generating Station, Toronto
An aerial view of Bruce Power generating stations.	Bruce Power has two generating stations.	Each generating station has four nuclear reactors.
When fully operated, Bruce Power generates around 6,232MW of power.	Refurbishment works being carried out in the station.

Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant,
The Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant is situated in the Dithmarschen area of Schleswig-Holstein and owned by Vattenfall and E.ON.	The plant was designed according to the "defence-in-depth" principle in order to provide multiple layers of protection.	The core of the Brunsbüttel NPP reactor includes 532 fuel elements.
Brunsbüttel NPP generates 6TWh of electricity per year.

Bushehr I and II Nuclear
Bushehr I and II were begun by Siemens.	The Siemens contract failed, and Russian companies have completed Bushehr I.	Bushehr I cost around $1bn.
The power plant is actually near the town of Halileh, 12km from Bushehr.	Minatom built the 1,000MW VVER-1000/320 light water reactor.	The 1,000MW Bushehr power plant finally started up in March 2008.
Russia and Iran are discussing various types of energy co-operation including gas, oil and electricity.

Caithness
The Dounreay site at Caithness was opened in 1955 to develop fast reactors.	After Dounreay's closure, there are hopes that staff can work in the worldwide decommissioning and decontamination (D&D) market.	Dounreay was originally ordered in 1988.
All the reactors at Caithness have now closed.	Illustration of new storage facility.	Decontamination building at Dounreay.

Chernobyl
Chernobyl nuclear power plant.	Chernobyl location.	Chernobyl plant.

Civaux 1-2
The Civaux nuclear power plant.	The turbine hall of the Civaux N4 (1450MW) nuclear power plant housing.	The control room of the Civaux N4 (1450MW) nuclear power plant.
The Civaux nuclear power plant.	The Civaux nuclear power plant in its environment.

Flamanville Nuclear
Alstom is supplying the 1,750MW steam turbine for the Flamanville reactor.	Alstom is contracted to build the turbine island for the world's largest EPR.	The Flamanville order is worth more than €350m to Alstom.
Alstom's Arabelle turbine offers a new architecture where the steam first expands in a single-flow HP path.	Controlling the automated rotor welding process.	Alstom's design improves efficiency and reduces installation and maintenance costs.
The Arabelle design from Alstom is shorter and lighter than previous nuclear steam turbines.	Developed from its 1,550MW model, Alstom's Flamanville turbine will generate 1,750MW.

Hunterston B Nuclear Power Station, West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland
Hunterston B is near West Kilbride in Ayrshire, Scotland.	AGRs are encased in a concrete pressure vessel (DTI).	The life of Hunterston B nuclear power station has been extended to 2016.
The life of Hinkley Point B (Hunterston B's sister station) has been similarly extended.	The reactor hall at Hunterston.

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the world’s biggest nuclear power station.	Kashiwazaki-Kariwa is on the Japanese coast, approximately 135 miles north-west of Tokyo.	How Kashiwazaki-Kariwa works.
Black smoke rises from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear site after the 2007 earthquake.

Krummel Nuclear Plant,
The nuclear power plant in Krümmel was closed on 4 July 2009 after a short circuit in the transformer, but is set to reopen in 2010 after new transformers are supplied.	A control room located on the site monitors and records every process of the reactor.	The emergency control room contains two of the plant's six emergency diesel generators.
The plant generates electricity through nuclear fission.	The plant is part of Germany's plan to reduce carbon emissions throughout the country.	The plant is primarily made up of two buildings; the reactor building and the turbine building.

Lingao
Lingao nuclear power plant design is based on French pressured water reactor technology.	Daya Bay power plant.	Lingao has been built to a similar design to the Daya Bay power plant.
Percentage growth in installed capacity, generation and GDP in China 1991–98.	Daya Bay power plant.	Daya bay power plant.

Lungmen
Taipower installed capacity by type, 1999.	Taipower electricity sales, 1999.	Forecast Taipower peak and average load 1999–2007.
Fuel for electricity generation throughout the world.	World electricity generation.	Construction is progressing at the Lungmen Unit 1 Reactor Building.
Construction at Lungmen Unit 2.	Construction of Lungmen Radwaste Building.

Maine Yankee
Aerial view of Yankee Maine nuclear power station.	Diagram of primary inventory trend system.	Inside containment and outside containment diagram of Yankee Maine.
High level waste is stored in a spent fuel pool made up of specially designed 40in³ pool of water.	Air flow and reactor containment diagram for Yankee Maine.	Diagram of main and emergency feedwater systems for Yankee Maine nuclear power plant.

Olkiluoto 3 1,600MW Nuclear Power Plant
Construction of the Finnish Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant has been delayed again.	Finnish electricity consumption in 2005, amounting to a total of 87.9TWh.	Finnish electricity Supply in 2005. Demand in the country is rising faster than in other Nordic countries.
Nuclear power is Finland’s major source of energy.	Olkiluoto 3 is a 1600MWe large-power pressurised water reactor.	Olkiluoto 3 is the fifth Finnish nuclear reactor.
Each of the main safety systems for the reactor building (2) has four identical sub-systems (1).	3D mock up of the EPR reactor building.	The EPR is the only third-generation reactor now being constructed.

Oyster Creek Generating Plant
Oyster Creek Generating Station (Oyster Creek) is a nuclear power plant located at Lacey Township, New Jersey Shore, US.	The Oyster Creek powerhouse is owned and operated by Exelon Nuclear.	A public meeting about Oyster Creek.

Rosatom Atomic Power Agency 70MW FNPS
The World Nuclear Association shows the progress of nuclear power in the world.	Greenhouse gas emissions from the different forms of energy, with nuclear showing the lowest contribution (although wind power, for example, produces a lot less nuclear waste). Source IEA.	Gazprom will use the ships for offshore oil and gas field development.
Russian nuclear generation runs at about the same level as coal, and much lower than the country's gas production. Source: OECD.

Sellafield WAGR
Sellafield, UK.	As the European demonstration project for nuclear reactor decommissioning in the UK, Project WAGR aims to show that a full-size reactor can be dismantled safely and cost effectively, with minimum risk to the environment.	Since its shutdown in 1981, a large amount of work has been completed at the site. For each piece of equipment, specific tools and methods must be devised and used.

Shinpo
Shinpo nuclear power plant units one and two.	KSNP nuclear power plant design.	Location of Shinpo power plant.
Woolsung nulcear plant units three and four.

Tianwan-1 And -2 Nuclear Reactors
Tianwan-1 and -2 are upgraded versions of the VVER Pressurised Water Reactor design	The recombiners (supplied at the time by Framatome) have a metal housing, and maximise gas throughput.	Tianwan-1 and 2 are now complete in Jiangsu province.
The Tianwan reactors use Framatome recombiners.	China’s largest ever nuclear reactors are now on line (one is complete and one is in partial load operation) north of Shanghai.

Tomari-3 912MW Nuclear Plant
MHI has made important developments since its first system, in 1970.	The reactor coolant system has a reactor vessel, steam generators, reactor coolant pumps, and a pressuriser.	Fuel assemblies are arranged in a cylindrical geometry in the reactor vessel.
The MOX (Mixed Oxide) nuclear fuel consists of plutonium extracted from spent fuel mixed with uranium.	Reactor coolant pump (model 100A).

Watts Bar 2 Nuclear Power Plant, Tennessee
The delayed 1.2GW Watts Bar 2 PWR is to be completed.	Watts Bar Unit 2 will cost the TVA around $2.49bn to complete.	Watts Bar Unit 2 is located next to Unit 1, just south of Watts Bar Reservoir.
Watts Bar lies on the Tennessee River, near Spring City.	TVA's three nuclear plants (Browns Ferry, Sequoyah and Watts Bar) provide about 30% of TVA's power supply.	Siemens is refurbishing and upgrading the turbine island.
Watts Bar is TVA's third nuclear power plant.

Westinghouse AP100
Westinghouse is building four AP1000 nuclear plants in China.	Engineering design and some procurements have already begun for the planned Chinese plants.	Construction of the Chinese reactors is expected to start in 2009.
The four plants will be built in pairs at Sanmen and Haiyang.	Passive systems on the AP1000 use gravity, natural circulation and compressed gas – there are no pumps, fans, diesels, chillers, or other rotating machines in the safety sub-systems.	Westinghouse is expected to bring the first plant on line in 2013.

Yonggwang Units 5 and 6
Unit three of the Ulchin power plant, the first based on KSNP design.	Yonggwang power plant units five and six. Completion was in 2002.	Yonggwang plant comprising 2x1,000MW steam units.
KEPCO generation capacity by technology, 1999.	Unit three of the Ulchin power plant, the first based on the KSNP design.	The KSNP nuclear design
Wolsung nuclear plant units three and four.	Ulchin units five and six.	New KSNP design.

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