China commissions second new generation N-power unit

16 May 2007

The generating unit has been successfully connected to the local power grid after necessary approvals from various departments, including the National Nuclear Safety Administration, the plant''s major shareholder, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), said.

The largest technological and economic Cupertino project between China and Russia, the Tianwan plant, in Lianyungang, a port city in Jiangsu province, will have four generating units and space for four more.

The first-phase of the project would see two 1,060 MW AES-91 pressurised water reactors made by a Russian company being installed.

The project will use the third generation million kilowatt pressurised water reactors provided by US energy company Westinghouse Electric Company according to framework agreements signed between the US company and China''s State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation.

The new technology, called "Plan AP1000," is currently the most advanced and most reliable one in the world.

The early stage of civic engineering has started on 150 hectares, 20 km to the east of Haiyang City, which is located by the Bohai Sea. The government has earmarked more land for the next two phases of the power plant