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Qinshan nuclear power plant expansion under way

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-07-18 11:58

Workers Friday began pouring concrete to the foundation of the last of the two new generating units planned as an addition to the first phase of the Qinshan nuclear power plant on the northern coast of Hangzhou Bay, Zhejiang province.

The nuclear power plant in Fangjiashan of Haiyan, not far from Shanghai, is the first Chinese facility of its kind.

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Its expansion project, with an investment of 26 billion yuan ($3.82 billion), is one of the first group of large infrastructure items approved for construction by the State Council in the latter half of last year as a way to combat the global financial meltdown, said Qinshan Nuclear Power Company Limited of China National Nuclear Corporation, the developer, Friday.

The expansion requires installation of two pressurized reactors, and each will have an installed capacity of 1 million kilowatts. Concrete pouring for the first reactor facility was done on Dece 26, 2008.

The two generating units will be operational by 2013 and 2014. And electricity produced by the two units will be used to power economic development in the Yangtze River Delta, according to the company...

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