The Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant (红沿河核电站) is located in Donggang Town,
Wafangdian in
Liaoning Province
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of
China
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.
The site is within the
Prefecture-level city of
Dalian
Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the ...
, north of Dalian City proper.
The first unit started commercial operations in June 2013.
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Phase I consists of four
CPR-1000 reactors, which is a design developed by China from the
Framatome-designed
PWRs at the
Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant
Daya Nuclear Power Plant () is a nuclear power plant located in Daya Bay in Longgang District, along the eastern extremity of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China; and to the north east of Hong Kong. Daya Bay has two 944 MWe PWR nuclear reactors based ...
.
Phase II is the first construction of two
ACPR1000
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 MW ...
reactors,
a further development of the CPR-1000. This reactor will include a
core catcher and double containment as additional safety measures.
Progress
The project was approved by the
National Development and Reform Commission in April 2006, and projected to cost 23 billion
Renminbi
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for the first two units. The cost will be shared between the
China Power Investment Corporation, the
China General Nuclear Power Group and two Liaoning companies. Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., a joint venture, is managing the construction and will be the operator of the plant once it goes online. The operator is a 45–45–10 joint venture of
China Power Investment Corporation (now
State Power Investment Corporation),
China General Nuclear Power Group and
Dalian Construction Investment Group
Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on th ...
.
Construction started in summer of 2006 with excavation of two large holes that will have the reactors put in them and a containment built around them. 'First concrete' for the first unit was poured in August 2007. 'Ground breaking' ceremony was held on 28 July 2010 for starting the work of two 1000 MWe CPR-1000 pressurized water reactors of phase II.
On 17 February 2013 Hongyanhe 1 was connected to the grid, having started criticality testing on 16 January 2013.
It began commercial operation on 6 June.
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On 23 November 2013 Hongyanhe 2 was connected to the grid.
Hongyanhe 4 achieved first criticality on 5 March 2016, was connected to the grid on 1 April 2016, and entered commercial operation on 20 September 2016.]
Reactor data
The Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant consists of 6 operational reactors.
References
{{Nuclear power in the PRC
Nuclear power stations in China