People's Republic of China Nuclear Power Plants Eyeball

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24 May 2008. These are the 11 operating civilian nuclear power plants. A number of others are under design and construction.
Nuclear reactors at weapons facilities are not included.

104 US power reactors: http://eyeball-series.org/npp/62npp-eyeball.htm

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/nuc_reactors/china/reactors.html

China’s Commercial Nuclear Reactors

Operational Units: Reactors fully licensed to operate and that are either in service or are shutdown but expected to return to service

Unit Name
(Alternative Names) Type Capacity MW(e)
Status

Net Gross

Daya Bay 1
(Guangdong 1) PWR 944 984 Connected to the grid on August 31, 1993

Daya Bay 2
(Guangdong 2) PWR 944 984 Connected to the grid on February 2, 1994

Ling’ao 1
(Lingao A) PWR 938 990 Connected to the grid on February 26, 2002

Ling’ao 2
(Lingao B) PWR 938 990 Connected to the grid on December 15, 2002

Qinshan 1
(formerly, Qinshan) PWR 279 300 Connected to the grid on December 15, 1991

Qinshan 2-A
(formerly, Qinshan 2,
of Qinshan 2-A) PWR 610 642 Connected to the grid on February 2, 2002

Qinshan 2-B
(formerly, Qinshan 3) PWR 610 642 Connected to the grid on March 4, 2004

Qinshan 3-A PHWR 665 728 Connected to the grid in April 2003

Qinshan 3-B PHWR 665 728 Connected to the grid in July 2003

Total Capacity 6,593 6,988

Tianwan-1
(Lianyungang) VVER 1,000 1,060 Recently completed

Tianwan-2
(Lianyungang) VVER 1,000 1,060 Recently completed

Total Capacity 8,593 9,108

Daya Bay 1 is located near Shenzhen in Guangdong province. Daya Bay 1 is operated by the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company, Ltd. The reactor was designed and built (with Chinese participation) by the French National Company, Framatome.
Daya Bay 2 is the twin of Daya Bay 1, and the details that follow are identical. Unit 2 is located near Shenzhen in Guangdong province. Daya Bay 2 is operated by the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company, Ltd. The reactor was designed and built (with Chinese participation) by the French National Company, Framatome.
Ling’ao 1, like the two Daya Bay reactors, is located in Guangdong province. It is less than a mile from the Daya Bay nuclear power plant. This is not the only similarity. Like Daya Bay 1 and 2, the reactor was designed by Framatome, the French national company that builds reactors for both the domestic market and for export. A total of four reactors are planned for the Ling'ao nuclear power plant. According to the People's Daily, the first unit went on stream "48 days ahead of schedule."
Ling’ao 2, is the companion to Ling'ao 1. This reactor was originally scheduled to go on line in March 2003, but China is consistently bringing its new units in ahead of schedule. Another characteristic of the Chinese nuclear program is to build reactors in pairs. This leads to much repetition in written summaries such as this. While we apologize to the reader for the unavoidable repetition. In the highly competitive and very limited international market, however, it is very interesting news for reactor suppliers. The description that follows is identical to that accompanying Ling'ao 1: Like the two Daya Bay reactors, Linag'ao 2 is located in Guangdong province, less than a mile northeast of the Daya Bay nuclear power plant. This is not the only similarity. This reactor was also designed by Framatome, the French national company that builds reactors for both the domestic market and for export. A total of four reactors are planned for the Ling'ao nuclear power plant.
Qinshan 1, is the sole exception to the Chinese practice of building units in pairs. When the reactor was first proposed in 1981, no other reactors were planned. At that time, the reactor was simply known as Qinshan. The number was added after the appearance of a second proposed reactor (Qinshan 2, now known as Qinshan 2-A) for the region. It is a matter of national pride that, although there is substantial foreign participation in China’s nuclear program, the first Chinese reactor was designed, built, and maintained by China. Construction began in 1985, two months prior to the start of Daya Bay 1 (Guangdong 1). But Qinshan 1 was connected to the grid 20 months before Daya Bay 1. The reactor was shut down for a year for fueling and repairs beginning in August 1998. It returned to service in September 1999 and appears to have operated without substantive problems since then. The reactor served as the model for Pakistan’s Chasnupp 1, the first Chinese commercial reactor constructed on foreign soil.
Qinshan 2-A, is the first reactor of the two reactors constructed under phase 2 of the Qinshan project, it is of Chinese design and manufacture. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, although it is locally designed and constructed, some heavy equipment was imported. Unit 2-A came on line on February 2, 2002. Originally known as Qinshan 2, it was changed to 2-A when China decided to construct reactors in pairs. As of March 31, 2004, Qinshan 1 is the only commercial reactor in China to not have a twin. Unit 2-A has also been identified as 2-1 (with its two sometimes identified as 2-2) and appears as such in some EIA features, such as the Nuclear Timeline.
Qinshan 2-B, began operation on March 4, 2004, a month ahead of its scheduled on-line date (April 1, 2004). Like its companion unit, 2-A, this light water pressurized reactor is of Chinese design and construction. During the final decade of the 20 th century and the first few years of this century, new reactor designs in the United States and Europe usually have capacities of about 1,000 net MW(e) or greater. Indeed, the French have built several giants that are 1,200 net MW(e), the largest ever built according to EIA’s Unique Reactors feature. The philosophy is that more capacity means more electricity for the consumer, and lower costs and more profits for the producer. The two leading commercial nuclear power producers in Asia, Japan and South Korea, have been bringing units on line that are about this size. While China has a pair of Russian-built reactors in this range under construction, Tianwan 1 and 2, the Chinese seem quite comfortable with their design’s more modest capacity. In fact, they are comfortable enough with the design to use it as the basis for their first exported unit (in Pakistan).
Qinshan 3-A, is the first Canada Deuterium Uranium Reactor CANDU constructed in China. Unit 3-A and its twin, 3-B, are China's first heavy water pressurized reactors (PHWR). China was able to bring this reactor on line months ahead of schedule.
Qinshan 3-B went on line a few months after its companion, Qinshan 3-B. Like 3-A, it is a CANDU unit and was also brought on line ahead of schedule.
Tianwan-1 is scheduled to begin commercial operation in 2004. About a quarter of the world’s commercial nuclear reactors have capacities of 1,000 MW(e) or more, but this reactor and its twin (Tianwan-2) will be the largest reactors ever built in China. Construction of this reactor began in October 2000 and should be completed in January 2004. The reactor is being built by Russia but Russia and China are not the only countries with a stake in the future of this plant. The German-based company, Siemens, reports that this power plant will be the first to incorporate its newly-designed digital instrumentation and safety control systems.
PWR= Pressurized Light Water Reactor. This is the most common type of commercial reactor and is found in nuclear industries throughout the world. Two thirds of the commercial nuclear reactors in the United States are of this type. A diagram (provided by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission) appears elsewhere on this site.
PHWR= Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor.
VVER= Soviet (and now, Russian Federation) acronym applied to their versions of light water pressurized reactors, whether domestically built or exported. For light water pressurized reactors designed by countries outside the former Soviet Union, the acronym PWR is used instead of VVER.