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 Mufu Mountains, mountainous south-eastern border with Jiangxi. ...

, Xianning,

Hubei Province Hubei is a province in Central China. It has the seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland provinces. Its provincial capital at Wuhan serves as a major politi ...

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

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(MW) AP1000

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

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of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (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. While the project is still listed as "planned", construction of the first phase has yet to start as of 2023.

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

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in Jiayu County. 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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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

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Transportation access

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