{"id":84299,"date":"2018-12-28T23:28:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/?p=84299"},"modified":"2018-12-28T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:33:08","slug":"cin-taishanda-dunyanin-ilk-epr-nukleer-projesini-baslatti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/cin-taishanda-dunyanin-ilk-epr-nukleer-projesini-baslatti\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launches World\u2019s First EPR Nuclear Project in Taishan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The world\u2019s first third-generation \u201cEvolutionary Power Reactor\u201d (EPR) has gone into operation at Taishan in China\u2019s Guangdong province, the French and Chinese developers behind the project announced on Friday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1,750 megawatt EPR, formerly known as the \u201cEuropean Pressurised Reactor\u201d and designed by France\u2019s Areva, completed a 168-hour trial run on Thursday evening, said state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN).\u00a0The Taishan nuclear project is 70 percent-owned by CGN, with Electricite de France (EDF) controlling the rest. Areva, designer of the new reactor, is now known as Framatome, which is owned 75.5 percent by EDF.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on two EPR units began at Taishan in 2009 with the first originally scheduled to be completed in 2013, but the design has been beset by a series of technical hitches and big cost overruns in China and elsewhere. Taishan\u2019s second unit is expected to go into full operation in the fourth quarter of 2019.\u00a0Fabrice Fourcade, EDF\u2019s chief representative in China, said the firm would be \u201cvery happy\u201d to build more EPRs in China but this would depend on CGN and the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-france-nuclear\/china-launches-worlds-first-epr-nuclear-project-in-taishan-idUSKBN1OD0Y4\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first third-generation \u201cEvolutionary Power Reactor\u201d (EPR) has gone into operation at Taishan in China\u2019s Guangdong province, the French and Chinese developers behind the project announced on Friday. The 1,750 megawatt EPR, formerly known as the \u201cEuropean Pressurised Reactor\u201d and designed by France\u2019s Areva, completed a 168-hour trial run on Thursday evening, said state-owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,53,43],"tags":[20846,42501,43611,886,43605,7328,42491,41345,67,1009,43612,43602,43613,43604,43606,42853,42854,42856,35206,25480,34930,43603],"views":1880,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84302,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84299\/revisions\/84302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}