Switch flicked at experimental fast reactor

BEIJING - China's first experimental fast reactor located in the southwest suburbs of Beijing started to supply electricity at 10 am on Thursday.

A press officer with the Beijing Electric Power Company, who declined to be identified, confirmed to China Daily that her company was transmitting power generated by the fast reactor.

"The thermal power at the reactor is 65 megawatts. Currently we are using 40 percent to generate power, so the temperature and pressure in the generator is low, and the actual power output is only 3 megawatts," said Xu Mi, the leading expert on fast reactor technology at the China National Nuclear Corporation.