China’s First HTGR To Be Completed In 2017

Posted by NucNet on 13 November 2014 in NucNet

Plans & Construction

China’s Generation IV demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), being built near the city of Rongcheng in Shandong province, will be completed in 2017, the ministry of science and technology said.

The ministry also said the first layer of concrete for the 200-megawatt reactor project has been poured.

Related reports in the NucNet database (available to subscribers): China’s HTGR Construction ‘Progressing Well’ (News in Brief No. 4, 30 October 2014)