The Xianning Nuclear Power Plant (), also named Dafan Nuclear Power Plant (大畈核电站), is planned in Dafan Town,

Tongshan County Tongshan () is a county of Xianning City, in the southeastern part of Hubei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Jiangxi to the south. The county is located along Hubei's mountainous south-eastern border with Jiangxi. Its best known ...

Xianning Xianning () is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Jiangxi to the southeast and Hunan to the southwest. It is known as the "City of Osmanthus". Geography and climate Xianning is located i ...

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, China. It is planned to host at least four 1,250-

megawatt The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of Power (physics), power or radiant flux in the International System of Units, International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), ...

(MW)

AP1000 The AP1000 is a nuclear power plant designed and sold by Westinghouse Electric Company. The plant is a pressurized water reactor with improved use of passive nuclear safety and many design features intended to lower its capital cost and improve ...

pressurized water reactor A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water reactor, light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with notable exceptions being the UK, Japan and Canada). In a PWR, the primary ...

s. The plant is owned by Hubei Nuclear Power Company, a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...

China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) (), formerly China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (), is a Chinese state-owned energy corporation under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, SASAC of the State Council of the Peo ...

(CGNPC) and Hubei Energy Group Ltd. The cost of four AP1000 reactors is put at CNY 60 billion (US$8.8 billion). Work on the site began in 2010; the first reactor was planned to start construction in 2011 and go online in 2015. However, construction of the first phase has yet to start as of 2018.

Reactors

The plant is described as the first nuclear power plant to be built in China's inland regions (i.e., not near the sea coast).咸宁大畈核电公司专程洽商富水水库取水事项
("Xianning Dafan Nuclear Power company makes a special trip to negotiate Fushui Reservoir water use issues"), Fushui Reservoir Management Company, 2010-10-23 The plant is expected to use the water of the

Fushui The Fushui River (富水) is a river flowing through Tongshan and Yangxin Counties in the south-eastern part of Hubei province, China. The river is long. It originates in the Mufu Mountains, flows in the general eastern direction, and discharg ...

Reservoir for cooling and various ancillary purposes. The station's four

cooling towers A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream to a lower temperature. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and ...

, some of the largest in the world, will have the base diameter of and the height of .

Transportation access

There are no railways or navigable waterways within the station's vicinity. (The

Fushui River The Fushui River (富水) is a river flowing through Tongshan and Yangxin Counties in the south-eastern part of Hubei province, China. The river is long. It originates in the Mufu Mountains, flows in the general eastern direction, and discharge ...

is not navigable). In order to facilitate the delivery of heavy equipment (such as the reactor pressure vessels or electric generators) to the construction site, a major highway construction and upgrade project is being undertaken. The so-called Xianning Nuclear Plant Site Large Equipment Transport Road () will connect the station's construction site with the Panjiawan Harbor () on the

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest list of rivers of Asia, river in Asia, the list of rivers by length, third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in th ...

Jiayu County Jiayu County () is a county of southeastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, located on the southeast (right) bank of the Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in th ...

. The road, which will include sections of existing roadways as well as newly constructed sections, will be long. The road will include a newly constructed long, wide overpass over the Beijing–Guangzhou Railway, designed to carry loads of up to 930 tons. 咸宁核电厂大件运输公路上跨京广铁路线立交桥工程完成竣工验收
(The overpass over the Beijing–Guangzhou Railway on the Xianning Nuclear Plant Site Large Equipment Transport Road has been completed and passed the inspection), 2015-09-18

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External links

咸宁核电有限公司
(Xianning Nuclear Power Ltd.) - company's official site {{Nuclear power in the PRC Nuclear power stations in China Power stations in Hubei Nuclear power stations using AP1000 reactors Proposed nuclear power stations Proposed power stations in China

Reactors

Transportation access

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