Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant () is located on the

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in Longgang District,

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, about 60 km north of

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, 1 km north of

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 ...

. It is operated by

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. The units on site are separated between phase I and phase II.

Reactors

Ling Ao phase I has two

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s, 950

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PWRs Ling Ao I-1 and I-2, based on the French 900 MWe three cooling loop design (M310), which started commercial operation in 2002 and 2003. The planned investment sum for phase I was ca 4 billion USD. In a Phase II development two

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 MW ...

reactors, Ling Ao II-1 and II-2 (alternatively, units 3 and 4), were constructed in conjunction with

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, based on the French three cooling loop design. Ling Ao II-1, China’s first domestic CPR-1000 nuclear power plant, was first connected to the grid on 15 July 2010, having started criticality testing on 11 June 2010. It started commercial operations on 27 September 2010. Ling Ao II-2 was synchronized to the grid on May 3, 2011, with commercial operation beginning on August 7, 2011.

Reactor data

The Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant consist of 4 operational reactors.

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Reactors

Reactor data

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