Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in
Haiyang,
Shandong province
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
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, China. It is the second site to house
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 impr ...
units, after the
Sanmen Nuclear Power Station.
History
Groundbreaking happened one month ahead of schedule on July 30, 2008. Construction of the first unit began in September 2009.
Civil construction of Unit 1 was completed 29 March 2013.
Fuel loading at Haiyang 1 began on June 22, 2018. First grid connection was on 17 August 2018.
Unit 1 began commercial operation on 22 October 2018.
Construction of unit 2 started in June 2010, at that time the fourth Chinese AP1000 project together with the two units of the
Sanmen NPP. Commercial operation began in January 2019, after having completed a full-power test run for a week (168 hours). Both units will provide together about 20 TWh of electricity to the grid of
Shandong
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province.
On 20 April 2022 the construction of two CAP1000 units was permitted by the State Council.
Reactor data
District Heating
In September 2020, the plant's owner and a thermal company instigated a plan to
heat all of
Haiyang city via heat exchange.
Two months later, 700,000 square meters of housing had been heated and the project was en route for completion in its entirety in 2021. The switch to
clean energy
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is expected to eliminate more than 180,000 tonnes of
fossil fuel emissions each year, and the corresponding reduction in
air pollution
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is anticipated to save about 600 lives annually. By November 2022, the plant used 345 MW-thermal effect to heat 200,000 homes, replacing 12 coal heating plants.
See also
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Nuclear power in China
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References
{{Nuclear power in the PRC
Nuclear power stations in China
Power stations in Shandong
Nuclear power stations using AP1000 reactors
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Haiyang