Even though high speed rail and supercomputers are the only tech news the Chinese media reports, Gratz.
You can't seem to stop trolling. To make my point, here are five posts (e.g. more will derail the thread) to prove you're wrong again. Instead of trolling, why don't you read the news to alleviate your ignorance?
China Experimental Fast Reactor
China Experimental Fast Reactor control room
(Photo credits: China Institute of Atomic Energy)
China starts up first fourth generation nuclear reactor
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China starts up first fourth generation nuclear reactor
English.news.cn 2010-07-22 07:22:44
BEIJING, July 21 (Xinhua) --
Chinese scientists have succeeded in testing the country's first experimental fourth generation nuclear reactor, an expert said here on Wednesday.
The successful start up of the China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) marked a breakthrough in China's fourth generation nuclear technology, and made China the eighth country in the world to own the technology, Zhang Donghui, general manager of the CEFR project, told Xinhua over phone.
China's existing 11 nuclear power generating units all use second generation of nuclear power generation technology. The country started the construction of its first third-generation pressurized water reactors using AP1000 technologies developed by U.S.-based Westinghouse in 2009.
Compared with the third generation reactors which have an utility rate of uranium of just one percent, CEFR boasts an utility rate of more than 60 percent.
A new recycling technology called pyroprocessing is also used to close the fuel cycle by separating the unused fuel from most of the radioactive waste.
"The CEFR is safer, more environment-friendly, and more economic than its predecessors," Zhang said."
China Close to Firing Up a Fast Reactor « Carbon-Nation
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The Chinese Experimental Fast Reactor is so-named because the neutrons produced in its core are not ‘moderated’ with water like those that generate heat in nearly all commercial nuclear reactors. The faster neutrons can burn down nuclear waste and even generate new fuel, promising a solution to the thorny problem of waste storage as well as energy independence.
Fast reactors have proven difficult to operate because most rely on highly flammable liquid sodium to cool the reactor, but their promised benefits keep the hope alive."
China's Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) Program
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China's Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) Program
原子能快堆研究中心
China began research on fast neutron breeder reactors in the mid- and late-1960s. During its basic research period from 1965 to 1987, China's research focused on fast reactor technology such as fast reactor physics, thermodynamics, sodium technology and small sodium facility. During this initial period about 12 experimental setups were established, and one sodium loop was constructed. This included a 50 kg 235U zero-power neutron setup. On June 28 June 1970, this device reached criticality. The engineering goal for the applied basic research phase of China's FBR program (1987-1993) was to successfully construct a 65 MWt (25 MWe) experimental fast reactor. Further developments were made in sodium technology, fuel and materials, fast reactor safety, and reactor design. A preliminary foundation for a fast reactor design was established, and approximately 20 experimental setups and sodium loops were built."
Nuclear Engineering International
"Nine years after construction began on the China Experimental Fast Reactor near Beijing, the reactor is close to start up.
First criticality is expected before the end of 2009 and the reactor is due to be connected to the grid in June of 2010.
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Ordering of components for CEFR began in 1997. The components were imported mainly from Russia, France, USA and UK, with imports from abroad sharing about 30% of the total systems and components budget."
China Experimental Fast Reactor Ready to Connect | Nuclear Energy Insider
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Following the start of operations for CEFR in June, the next milestone will be the commissioning of the so-called China Demonstration Fast Reactor (CDFR), planned for 2018, though initial work on the design was approved back in 2007.
The CDFR will be located in Fujian province on China’s busy and economically active eastern seaboard, opposite Taiwan.
Following CDFR, the plan is move towards a Chinese developed commercial fast reactor (CCFR), though no preliminary dates have been released for this final stage of the programme as yet – dates including 2028 and 2035 have been [mooted] but not confirmed.
Despite this, the press has reported (unconfirmed by the central government in Beijing but suggested by sources at the government-linked China Institute of Atomic Energy) that several CDFR plants should be in operation by 2030 and that China’s nuclear capacity will rise to 240-250GWe by 2050 with most of this produced by fast breeder reactors that will be introduced to replace China’s current stock of highly polluting, inefficient and costly coal fired power plants.
New record for nuclear, for China
If China does deliver the CEFR in June then it will be the only third power-generating fast reactor in operation globally."
[Note: This is an updated post with new high-resolution pictures from "ANR."]
