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Rosatom announced it wanted to sell a
49% stake of the project, which it wholly
owns, and would work to attract investors
for the minority stake through the end of
2017. The company also announced that
most of the power generated by the nuclear
plant will be sold by Turkish firm Tetas.
4.8-GW Inga 3 Hydropower Plant
Delayed. The massive 4.8-GW Inga 3 hydroelectric
project proposed for construction
in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) has been delayed and won't come
online to relieve the country's power woes
until about 2025, the government announced
in June. South Africa is expected
to purchase at least 2.5 GW of power from
the project and much of the remainder
will go to mining companies in eastern
DRC. However, the project has been hit
with funding troubles after The World
Bank froze a planned $73.1 million grant,
because President Joseph Kabila stayed
in power after his second term ended in
December 2016. The DRC's government,
which wants the plant to come online by
2021, in June asked China's Three Gorges
Corp. and Spain's ACS, companies that
had submitted separate bids to build the
project, to submit a joint bid.
DONG to Convert Biggest Danish
Coal Plant to Woodchips. DONG Energy
in early July announced it would
convert Asnæs Power Station, Denmark's
largest coal-fired power plant, to combust
woodchips. The plant, which consists of
the 1961-built 142-MW Unit 2 and the
1981-built 640-MW Unit 5, operate alternately
to generate district heating, process
steam, and power. DONG said that
conversion of the coal plant to a 25-MW
woodchip plant will begin in summer
2017 and should be completed by 2019.
The woodchips will primarily come from
by-products, such as logging residues
and thinnings. It has urged all suppliers
to ensure that " the woodchips come from
sustainable forestry where the forests are
replanted, and biodiversity is protected. "
The company also signed a 20-year power
purchase agreement to supply energy from
the woodchip plant to Novo Nordisk A/S,
a healthcare and pharmaceutical firm,
Novozymes A/S, an enzyme and microorganism
biotechnology firm, and districtheating
customers in Kalundborg.
French Regulator Says Flammanville
3 OK to Operate. France's nuclear
regulator, the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire
(ASN), on June 28 said the Flammanville
3 nuclear reactor under construction
in northwest France is safe to operate,
though it ordered French utility EDF to
replace the head of its reactor pressure
vessel by the end of 2024. AREVA, which
manufactured the reactor pressure vessel,
alerted authorities of an anomaly in
the composition of the steel in certain
parts of the reactor pressure vessel in
April 2015. ASN later ordered AREVA to
stop forging operations at its Le Creusot
facility after documentation irregularities
were discovered in December 2015. In a
statement in June, the regulator said the
mechanical characteristics of the Flammanville
3 pressure vessel head and bottom
head are " adequate with regard to
the loadings to which these parts are
subjected, including accident situations. "
However, it warned, the anomaly in the
chemical composition of the steel entails
a reduction in the margins with respect
to the fast fracture risk. " ASN therefore
considers that EDF must implement additional
periodic inspections to ensure that
no flaws appear subsequently. " ■
-Sonal Patel is a POWER
associate editor.
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