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China / Beijing Announces Commercial Operation Of World’s First Generation IV Nuclear Power Plant

By David Dalton
6 December 2023

Operation of Shidao Bay-1 HTR-PM of ‘great significance’ for country’s nuclear power development

Beijing Announces Commercial Operation Of World’s First Generation IV Nuclear Power Plant
Fuel loading at the Shidao Bay-1 high-temperature gas-cooled reactor pebble-bed module (HTR-PM) in China began in the spring of 2021. Courtesy CNNC.
The Shidao Bay-1 nuclear power in China has begun commercial operation, becoming what Beijing says is the first Generation IV* plant in the world to go online, China’s National Energy Administration said in a post on social media network WeChat.

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