Young Generation Engages Themselves in Chinese Nuclear Power Plant Development
Author: Xinhua News 2022-05-10

Members of an R&D team work in a laboratory of Nuclear Power Institute of China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 28, 2022. Fuel assemblies are the core of the nuclear reactor.

 

Engineers and researchers of the Nuclear Power Institute of China have worked for years to develop China's own fuel assembly of commercial nuclear power plants, which was previously dominated by foreign technology.

 

On October 27, 2019, the first batch of 20 groups of CF3 fuel assemblies with independent intellectual property rights was loaded into the nuclear power plant. The achievement marked that China has mastered the technology of high-performance nuclear fuel assembly and become one of the few countries owning independent intellectual property rights in nuclear fuel assembly design and manufacturing technology. It is worth mentioning that over 70 percent of members of the R&D team are young people.

 

Photo taken on April 25, 2022 shows CF fuel assemblies at Nuclear Power Institute of China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province.

 

On April 29, 2022, the drawings of the new generation CF4 simulation fuel assembly were completed, which is another uplifting achievement in Chinese nuclear technology. The young generation of the R&D team will continue to engage themselves in Chinese nuclear power plant development.

 

 

Edited by Zhu Haiyue

Source: Xinhua News

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