Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station

Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station
Location of Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station
Country People's Republic of China
Location Dongpingzhen, Yangjiang, Guangdong
Coordinates
Status Under construction
Construction began 2008
Commission date Unit 1: August 2013 (scheduled)
Construction cost CNY 70 billion (US$10.2 billion)
Owner(s) Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company (GNPJVC)[1]
Operator(s) Yangjiang Nuclear Power Company
Reactor information
Reactors under construction 3 × 1,080 MW
Reactors planned 3 × 1,080 MW
Reactor type(s) CPR-1000 PWR
Power generation information
Maximum capacity 6,480 MW
As of 17 November 2010

Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station (YPNS) is a nuclear power plant in the Guangdong province of China. The site is Dongping Town, Yangjiang City in western Guangdong Province.[2] The station will have six 1,000 megawatt (MW) CPR-1000 pressurized water reactors (PWRs).[3]

The CPR-1000 is a PWR design developed by China from the Areva-designed PWRs at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant.[4] Yangjiang marks a step in the development of China's domestic nuclear industry. Shu Guogang, GM of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Project said, "We built 55 percent of Ling Ao Phase 2, 70 percent of Hongyanhe, 80 percent of Ningde and 90 percent of Yangjiang Station."[5]

The site in Yangjiang was selected for nuclear development in 1988.[6] The project was approved in 2004.[2] The plant was originally to be one of the first in China to host Generation III reactors — specifically AP1000 reactors. In 2007 however, revised plans switched the AP1000s for EPRs, and then for the established CPR-1000 reactor design used at Daya Bay.[3] Ground was broken for the plant in February 2008; the first concrete for the first unit was poured on 16 December 2008.[6]

Unit Type Construction start Operation start Notes
Phase I
Yangjiang 1 CPR-1000 16 December 2008 August 2013 [6]
Yangjiang 2 CPR-1000 4 June 2009 2014 [7]
Yangjiang 3 CPR-1000 15 November 2010 2015 [8]
Yangjiang 4 CPR-1000 15 March 2011 2016 [3]
Phase II
Yangjiang 5 CPR-1000
Yangjiang 6 CPR-1000 2017 [3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nuclear Power Reactor Details - YANGJIANG 1". Power Reactor Information System (PRIS). International Atomic Energy Agency. http://www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/db.page.pl/pris.prdeta.htm?country=CN&site=YANGJIANG&units=&refno=18&link=HOT&sort=&sortlong=Alphabetic. Retrieved 2010-01-11. 
  2. ^ a b "Construction of new projects". China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPC). http://www.cgnpc.com.cn/n1093/n463576/n463628/index.html. Retrieved 2010-01-11. 
  3. ^ a b c d "Nuclear Power in China". Country Briefings. World Nuclear Association. 9 January 2010. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf63.html. Retrieved 2010-01-11. 
  4. ^ "Construction gets under way at Chinese sites". World Nuclear News. World Nuclear Association (WNA). 24 November 2008. http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=23706. Retrieved 2010-01-11. 
  5. ^ "China aims to build its own nuclear power stations". China Central Television. 2009-07-24. http://www.cctv.com/program/bizchina/20090724/101260.shtml. Retrieved 2010-01-11. 
  6. ^ a b c "Official start to the Yangjiang nuclear plant". World Nuclear News. 17 December 2008. http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN_Official_start_to_the_Yangjiang_nuclear_power_plant_1712081.html. Retrieved 2010-01-11. 
  7. ^ "Latest News Related to PRIS and the Status of Nuclear Power Plants". Power Reactor Information System (PRIS). International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). http://www.iaea.org/programmes/a2/. Retrieved 2010-01-11. 
  8. ^ "Construction starts on third Yangjiang unit". World Nuclear News (WNA). 17 November 2010. http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Construction_starts_on_third_Yangjiang_unit-1711104.html. Retrieved 2010-11-17. 

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