The Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant (秦山核电站) is a multi-unit
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 ...
in Qinshan
Town,
Haiyan County, in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China.
Development
The construction of the units involved three separate phases.
;Phase I: Involved construction of the small-scale (≈300 MW) Unit-1 only, but was the first domestically designed and constructed nuclear power plant in the nation (95 percent of components came from domestic manufactures).
;Phase II: The next set of reactors were mid-scale plants (≈600 MW) but still of Chinese design (
CNP-600 The CNP-600 is a pressurized water nuclear reactor developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).
The CNP-600 is a generation II reactor based both on China's first commercial domestic nuclear reactor design, the CNP-300 and the M310 ...
). The
steam generators were made by
Babcock & Wilcox of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
;Phase III: Involved construction of two 728 MW (gross) CANDU-6 series of the
CANDU reactor design supplied by
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. This was reported to be the largest business venture between Canada and China to that time. In 2001, it was visited by the Canadian Prime Minister
Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (; born January 11, 1934) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.
Born and raised in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, Chrétien is a law graduate from Uni ...
;
both units were online by 2003.
[
Although Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant is technically a separate entity from Qinshan, the ]World Nuclear Association
World Nuclear Association is the international organization that promotes nuclear power and supports the companies that comprise the global nuclear industry. Its members come from all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining, ur ...
considers it to essentially be an extension of the Qinshan plant due to their proximity and the fact that the original two reactors built at Fangjiashan were initially intended to be built at Qinshan phase IV (which is no longer planned).
Reactor data
In 2019 Qinshan 1 was upgraded and uprated to 350 MWe (net) from its original output power of 300 MWe.
See also
* Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant
* List of power stations in China
* Nuclear power in China
References
{{Nuclear power in the PRC
Nuclear power stations in China
Nuclear power stations using CANDU reactors
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Jiaxing