The Chinese state-owned company State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) has started construction on the second 1,250 MW unit of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant, located in the Guangdong Province (southern China). Construction of the first unit started in October 2023 and this unit is expected to be commissioned in 2028.
For the first phase of the project, two CAP1000 units are planned, but the power plant is scheduled to eventually comprise six pressurized water reactors (PWRs) of the CAP1000 model with a life span of 60 years once completed. The project, estimated to require an investment of CNY130bn (US$18bn), will be able to generate more than 70 TWh/year once completed. Lianjiang will also be China’s first nuclear power plant featuring super-large cooling towers.
At the end of 2023, China’s nuclear capacity reached 56.9 GW and its nuclear power generation reached nearly 435 TWh. China targets 200 GW of nuclear capacity by 2035. The country currently has over 30 GW of nuclear capacity under construction and 174 GW under development.
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