Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in

Haiyang Haiyang (), is a coastal city in the Shandong province in eastern China, located on the Yellow Sea (southern) coast of the Shandong Peninsula. Its name translates directly to "ocean" (海) and "sun" (阳) in Mandarin. It is a county-level city ...

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, China. It is the second site to house

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units, after the

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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

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province. On July 7, 2022, construction began on unit 3 after authorization had been granted.

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District Heating

In September 2020, the plant's owner and a thermal company instigated a plan to heat all of

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

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is expected to eliminate more than 180,000 tonnes of fossil fuel emissions each year, and the corresponding reduction in

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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.

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History

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District Heating

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