China's first AP1000 fuel production line has now produced 64 sets of fuel assemblies ready for the first reloading of the Sanmen AP1000 units. Both Sanmen AP1000s are scheduled to begin operating ...

Energoatom and US firm Westinghouse have signed an agreement to increase from five to nine the number of planned new AP1000 reactors for Ukraine, as well as a widened deal to supply all nuclear fuel ...

China started loading fuel this week at a Westinghouse-designed AP1000 nuclear reactor - the world's first - in Sanmen, eastern Zhejiang province, as the long-delayed project took a key step ...

PETERBOROUGH, Ontario, March 19, 2025--Westinghouse Electric Company and Shawflex have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support nuclear new-build projects in Canada and globally ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. and its customers, China State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. and Shangdong Nuclear Power Co. that Haiyang Unit 1, the AP1000 nuclear power plant located in Haiyang ...

The fuel load process will be followed by initial criticality, initial synchronization to the electrical grid, and conservative, step by step, power ascension testing, until all testing is safely ...

Some day over the next two weeks, the power plant will start loading more than 100 fuel assemblies into the honeycomb core of its AP1000 reactor with a pair of robotic arms, people at the site said.

Westinghouse currently has six AP1000 nuclear power plants progressing through construction, testing and start-up.