Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactor generates power

TopSpin writes: The Sanmen 1 nuclear reactor in Zhejiang Provice, China has been synchronized to the power grid and is generating power. The reactor has been under construction for nine years and became the first AP1000 in the world to achieve criticality on June 21, 2018. The AP1000 design recieved final design certification from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2005 and has a net output of 1.117 GWe. Three other AP1000 reactors are under construction in China at the Sanmen and Haiyang sites and two reactors are under constrution in the US at the Vogtle Electric plant in Georgia.

On June 29 the Taishan 1 reactor became the first Areva EPR design to generate power. Four EPR reactors are under construction in Finland, France and China.