Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant
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| Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant | |
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| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Operator | Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co. Ltd |
| Start of commercial operation | June 28, 2007 |
| Reactors | |
| Reactor type | CPR-1000 |
| Reactors under construction | 2 (2,160 MW) |
| Reactors planned | 4 (4,240 MW) |
| Power | |
| Net generation | 0 GWh |
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The Nuclear power station Hongyanhe is one of the newest NPP projects in the world as of 2007. It is located in Hongyanhe in the Donggang Town of Wafangdian in the Liaoning Province of China, 104 km north of Dalian City. Construction is underway on the first two of 6 units total units. Exact construction schedule of the entire plant is not fully known yet.
Technology and various parts of the construction will be provided by Areva with a design based of the plants in Ling'ao and Daya Bay.
[edit] Progress
The project was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in April 2006, and projected to cost 23 billion yuan ($2.88 billion USD). The cost will be shared between the China Power Investment Corporation, the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group Holdings Co. Ltd and two Liaoning companies. Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co. Ltd is managing the construction and will be the operator of the plant once it goes online.
Construction started in summer of 2007 with excavation of two large holes that will have the reactors put in them and a containment built around them.[1] These two reactors represent the first phase of the construction, to be succeeded by a phase 2 and 3 for the remaining 4 reactors.
First concrete poored is exptected to be in September of 2008. It is expected that these two will go into commercial operation in 2012 and will contribute to a Chinese plan to rejuvenate an old industrial base in the northeast of the country.
