The joint Kazakh-Chinese Ulba-TVS nuclear fuel assembly plant has made another shipment of nuclear fuel to China for its nuclear reactors, this time of over 30 tonnes of low-enriched uranium, the company said in a statement.
The fuel assemblies were manufactured by the joint Kazakh-Chinese enterprise Ulba-TVS and are intended for use at the Yangjiang nuclear power station in Guangdong province, southern China.
Yangjiang has six units in commercial operation. Four are indigenous Generation II+ CPR-1000 units and two – units 5 and 6 – are the more advanced, Generation III ACPR-1000s.
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