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Construction Begins on China’s First Nuclear Plant in Northeast
18 August 2007
People’s Daily. Construction has begun on the main body of the Hongyanhe nuclear plant in Liaoning Province—China’s first nuclear power plant in its northeast.
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| Location of the Hongyanhe nuclear plant. Click to enlarge. |
The new Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant site, located in Donggang Town of Wafangdian, 104 km north of Dalian City, will have six generating units, each featuring China’s standard CPR1000 design—a 1,080MW three-loop Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), the design of which is being coordinated by China Nuclear Power Engineering Company. Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. (LHNPC) is the operator of the site.
Two pressurized water reactors will be installed in this first phase of construction. The project, approved by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) last April, will cost 23 billion yuan (US$2.88 billion), to be shared by the China Power Investment Corporation, the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group Holdings Co. Ltd and two Liaoning companies.
The first phase will be put into commercial operation in 2012. The government plans to increase its nuclear power installed capacity to 40 million kilowatts by 2020, accounting for 4% of the country’s total, according to information from the NDRC.
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With recent news of low quality manufacturing in China what makes anyone think this is going to be safe? And the West worries about Iranian nukes?
Posted by: sulleny | Aug 18, 2007 4:13:07 PM
May be 18 million toys are recalled, but there are more than 18 billion toys, electric and electronic goods made by Chinese that continues to flow into World markets every year.
So talking about Chinese quality is weird.
Its good that they learnt to make a 1 Gigawatt reactor.
Also they are working on pebble-bed reactor which is much safer and cheaper.
Parallelly Russians are building Ship-based reactor which could be build in 1 place(factory) and deployed anywhere in the Sea/Ocean.
Together these 2 countries could bring a new revolution in nuclear power industry which is badly needed.
On the 3rd front, Indians are working on a Thorium based reactor. Unlike Uranium/Plutonium, Thorium cannot be used to make bombs.
Posted by: Max Reid | Aug 18, 2007 7:44:21 PM
Sulleny,
These are not the first indigenous design reactors. Qinshan units 1,2 and 3 were D-I-Y for the Chinese.
The Chinese have bargained very hard for technology transfer for the units they have recently contracted with Westinghouse. I believe this was the deciding factor between the Westinghouse and Areva offers. They subsequently have said they are purchasing 2 of the Areva units in addition to the 4 Westinghouse units they have ordered.
Posted by: Bill Young | Aug 20, 2007 9:59:36 AM
You do now. Some places in the US new nuclear is projected to be cheaper than coal. Judging by the number of new nuclear units being proposed (like the two in this article) many in the industry agree with me.
Furthermore, almost all of the old 104 operating nuke plants in the US are producing electricity cheaper than almost all the old coal plants without considering CO2.
Could Bill explain what 'baseline' he is referring to. If his baseline is 2003 or PRB coal he would be correct. If his baseline is high BTU eastern coal or the world market, then his statement is wrong as of about 2005. Blame China for reducing coal exports.
Posted by: Kit P | Aug 21, 2007 5:26:07 AM
