Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant

Infobox NPP
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Type = CPR-1000
Country = People's Republic of China
Utility = Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co. Ltd
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Start = June 28, 2007
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Reactor =
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B_Reactor = 2
B_Reactor_MW = 2,160
P_Reactor = 4
P_Reactor_MW = 4,240
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as_of = 2007The 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.

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. [ [http://www.china.org.cn/english/2006/Jul/173330.htm Construction Starts on Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant - china.org.cn ] ] 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 poured is exptected to be in September 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.

ee also

*Nuclear power in China

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