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China / CNNC Announces Grid Connection For World’s First Generation IV HTGR

By David Dalton
22 December 2021

High-temperature reactors seen as crucial for clean energy production
CNNC Announces Grid Connection For World’s First Generation IV HTGR
The gas-cooled HTR-PM is a Generation-IV high-temperature reactor design with twin reactor modules of 100 MW each. Courtesy CNNC.
Unit 1 of a new high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) nuclear plant in China’s eastern coastal province of Shandong has been connected to the grid – marking the start of electricity generation for what state-run China National Nuclear Corporation said is the first high-temperature reactor in the world to begin operation.

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