China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) has begun the construction of the 1 GW Unit 4 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant, located in the Shandong Province, eastern China. First concrete has been poured for the construction of the second of two CAP1000 pressurised water reactors (PWRs), planned as Phase 2 of the power plant.
The construction of two new reactors at the Haiyang nuclear power plant (3 and 4) was approved by China's State Council in April 2022. The Haiyang plant is already home to two Westinghouse AP1000 units. Unit 1 of the plant entered commercial operation in October 2018 and unit 2 in January 2019. The first two units provide about 20 TWh/year of electricity to the Chinese grid.
At the end of 2021, China’s nuclear capacity reached 53.3 GW and its nuclear power generation reached 408 TWh. According to preliminary estimates, 2.3 GW of new nuclear capacity was added in 2022, raising China’s nuclear capacity to over 55 GW. China targets 200 GW of nuclear capacity by 2035. China currently over 31 GW of nuclear capacity under construction and 175 GW under development.
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