📢 Focus on CHINA!
⚓ China's Jiangnan Shipyard unveils the design of the world's largest nuclear-powered container ship, a 24,000TEU-class vessel. The shipyard, under the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, achieves a revolutionary milestone in near-zero emission ships by leveraging fourth-generation molten salt reactor technology for clean nuclear energy.
♨ China's National Energy Administration announces the commercial operation of the world's first modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant, the HTR-PM. It features two 250 MWth reactors driving a 210 MWe turbine, using helium as a coolant and graphite as a moderator. The project began in 2012 led by Tsinghua University, China Huaneng Group, and the China National Nuclear Corporation.
♨ China's State Power Investment Corporation inaugurates Warm Nuclear No 1, a 23 km pipeline supplies heat to Haiyang and Rushan cities from the Haiyang nuclear plant. Phase three of the project covers 12.5 million sqm, meeting the clean heating needs of 400,000 people. The Haiyang nuclear plant, which houses two AP1000 reactors, is also constructing two CAP1000 reactors set for grid connection in 2027.
👨🎓 Paper of the week: "Numerical simulation of flow and heat transfer in fuel assembly of floating nuclear power platform", Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology (2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2023.2290712
👉 Periodic rolling loads at sea have a significant adverse effect on flow characteristics within the core fuel assembly.
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