Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station


The Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant in Guangdong province, China. The site is Dongping Town, Yangjiang City in western Guangdong Province.
The station has six 1,000 megawatt CPR-1000 pressurized water reactors.
The plant began commercial operation in March 2014, and as of 2019 is the largest nuclear power station in China.

History

The site in Yangjiang was selected for nuclear development in 1988. The project was approved in 2004.
The plant was originally to be one of the first in China to host Generation III reactors — specifically AP1000 reactors. In 2007 however, plans were revised from the AP1000 design to EPR design. Later in 2007 these plans were again revised, with the EPR designs to be realized at Taishan, and the established CPR-1000 reactor design selected for Yangjiang.
Ground was broken for the plant in February 2008; the first concrete for the first unit was poured on 16 December 2008.
Construction of the fourth unit was to begin in March 2011, but was delayed by China's safety review in reaction to the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima; the first concrete was poured in November 2012.
The sixth unit began commercial operation in July 2019.

Domestic development

The CPR-1000 is a PWR design developed by China from the Areva-designed PWRs at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant.
Yangjiang marks a step in the development of China's domestic nuclear industry.
Shu Guogang, GM of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Project said, "We built 55 percent of Ling Ao Phase 2, 70 percent of Hongyanhe, 80 percent of Ningde and 90 percent of Yangjiang Station."

ACPR-1000 reactor type

Yangjiang 5 is the first construction of an ACPR-1000 reactor, starting in September 2013.
This design is an evolution to the Generation III level of the CPR-1000, and includes a core catcher and double containment as additional safety measures. Yangjiang 5 was the first Chinese reactor to have a domestically-developed digital control system.

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