The Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant () is a

nuclear power plant A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a electric generator, generato ...

Fuqing (; Foochow Romanized: Hók-chiăng; also romanized as Hokchia) is a county-level city of Fujian Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou. Geography Fuqing is located in the north-central part ...

Fujian Province Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its cap ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. The plant is located on the coast of

Xinghua Bay Xinghua Bay is an inlet of the Taiwan Strait beside Putian in Fujian on the Chinese mainland. It is fed by the Mulan River and Qiulu Creek (, ''Qiūlú Xī''). Administratively, it is surrounded by Putian's Xiuyu, Licheng, and Hanjiang Distr ...

, near Qianxue Village, Sanshan Town. The station has four 1,089

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(MW)

CPR-1000 The CPR-1000, or CPR1000 (Chinese PWR) is a Generation II+ pressurized water reactor, based on the French 900 MWe three cooling loop design (M310) imported in the 1980s, improved to have a slightly increased net power output of 1,000 MWe (1080 M ...

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s (PWRs). The CPR-1000 is an advanced PWR design developed by China from the Areva-designed PWRs at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant. The plant was jointly constructed and is operated by

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(51%), China Huadian Corp. (39%) and the Fujian Investment & Development Co Ltd. (10%). Construction of the first unit began on 21 November 2008 and was completed in 2014. First concrete for Unit 2 was poured on 17 June 2009 and the unit was started in October 2015. First concrete for Unit 3 was poured on 31 December 2010. Construction of Unit 4 was to begin in 2011, but was delayed until November 2012 by China's nuclear safety review following the

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. In November 2014 it was announced that units 5 and 6 would be of the

Hualong One The Hualong One ( zh , c=华龙一号 , p=Huálóng yī hào , l=China Dragon №1) is a Chinese Generation III pressurized water nuclear reactor jointly developed by the China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and the China National Nuclear Cor ...

(updated CPR-1000) design, with unit 5 scheduled to be in operation about 2019. The first concrete was poured for Fuqing 5 on 7 May 2015. Unit 5 achieved criticality in October 2020, the first Hualong One reactor to reach the milestone. The unit was connected to the grid the following month. It began commercial operation on 30 January 2021. Unit 6 achieved criticality in December 2021, was connected to the grid in January 2022, and began commercial operation on 25 March 2022.

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The Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant consist of 5 operational reactors, and 1 reactor under construction.

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