2020 nuclear power installation will reach 80 Million-kilowatt

China Nuclear group Fuqing Nuclear Power Project Unit No. 3rd was started construction, so far, Fujian Fuqing nuclear power project into 3 units at the same time under construction phase, follow-up 5, 6th Unit project approval and other preliminary work is also actively in progress.　　The 6 units are planned to be fully commissioned in January 2018. In the face of increasing energy demand, increasing the proportion of new energy sources such as nuclear power has become an urgent task for China. NDRC experts predict that the next 10 years will be China's nuclear power industry's rapid development period, 2020 China's nuclear power capacity is expected to reach 80 Million-kilowatt.　　However, the development of the nuclear power industry also faces bottlenecks due to the need to rely on imports for key raw material uranium. Nuclear power accelerates the development of uranium resources in recent years, nuclear power as a clean energy has been developed in a blowout type.　　As of September 2010, the State Council has approved 34 sets of nuclear power units, installed capacity of 36.92 Million-kilowatt, of which has started to build 25 units, Installed capacity of 27.73 Million-kilowatt, China has become the world's largest nuclear power construction in the country.　　Dai, deputy director of NDRC's Energy Research Institute, predicts that in the next 10 years, the proportion of total energy consumption in China will be 15%, of which nuclear power capacity will reach 80 million-kilowatt in 2020. However, the rapid development of nuclear power industry has also encountered bottlenecks-the shortage of natural uranium resources. Even if China pushes ahead with a modest nuclear development plan, more than 60% of its uranium will be imported from abroad by 2020, according to media reports.　　If China achieves 40 million-kilowatt of its nuclear capacity in 2020, the domestic demand for natural uranium will increase to 6000 to 7200 tonnes.　　Four-generation technology dew Dawn commercial operation immature although the four-generation nuclear technology currently widely concerned has brought dawn to China's nuclear power industry, commercial operations will take some time. According to Yechi, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a nuclear power expert, China has made a substantial breakthrough in the "fast heap" of key joints in the fourth generation of nuclear energy technology development, as a major project of the national 863 program.　　At present, most of the more than 400 nuclear power plants in the world are using second-generation and second-generation improvement technologies, and the three-generation technology, represented by Westinghouse, AP1000 and the French Areva EPR, is currently being commercialized. However, these second-generation and three-generation technologies belong to the thermal reactor technology, most of the reactor type is pressurized water reactor, hot reactor fission use of the fuel is mainly uranium 235, but this resource accounted for only 0.66% of the natural uranium reserves, and the rapid reactor for the four-generation nuclear technology is the use of plutonium 239, in line with the natural reserves of 99.2%　　Uranium 238 as fuel, making the natural uranium use of nature greatly improved. According to Yechi, because the fast reactor can increase the use of natural uranium, but also make many lean ore have the mining value, which will make the world's uranium resources increased by thousands of thousand.　　Experts predict that with the current proven natural uranium reserves, the use of fast reactors can make the uranium resources sustainable utilization for more than 3,000 years. However, Yechi says that the fast-reactors need to be commercializedPreparation of economic and technical maturity, the current fast reactor technology is still in the international test phase, it is expected that 2025 ~2035 years to enter the commercial stage.