Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Haiyang, Shandong province, China. It is the second site to house AP1000 units, after the Sanmen Nuclear Power Station.
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Country | China |
Location | Haiyang, Yantai, Shandong |
Coordinates | 36°42.5′N 121°23′E |
Status | Operational |
Construction began | 2009 |
Commission date | 2018 |
Owner(s) | State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC)[1][2] |
Operator(s) | Shandong Nuclear Power[1][2] (subsidiary of SPIC)[3] |
Nuclear power station | |
Reactor type | PWR |
Reactor supplier | Westinghouse |
Cooling source | Yellow Sea |
Thermal capacity | 2 × 3415 MWth |
Power generation | |
Units operational | 2 × 1170 MW |
Make and model | Westinghouse AP1000 |
Units planned | 6 × 1100 MW[4] |
Nameplate capacity | 2340 MW |
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Simplified Chinese | 海阳核电站 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 海陽核電站 | ||||||
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Groundbreaking happened one month ahead of schedule on July 30, 2008.[5] Construction of the first unit began in September 2009.[4] Civil construction of Unit 1 was completed 29 March 2013.[6] Fuel loading at Haiyang 1 began on June 22, 2018.[7] First grid connection was on 17 August 2018.[1] Unit 1 began commercial operation on 22 October 2018.[8]
Construction of unit 2 started in June 2010, at that time the fourth Chinese AP1000 project together with the two units of the Sanmen NPP.[9] Commercial operation began in January 2019, after having completed a full-power test run for a week (168 hours). Both units will provide together about 20 TWh of electricity to the grid of Shandong province.[10]
On 20 April 2022 the construction of two CAP1000 units was permitted by the State Council.
Unit | Type /Model | Net power | Gross power | Thermal power | Construction start | First criticality | Grid connection | Operation start | Notes |
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Haiyang 1 | PWR / AP1000 | 1170 MW | 1250 MW | 3415 MW | 2009-09-24 | 2018-08-08 | 2018-08-17 | 2018-10-22 | [1] |
Haiyang 2 | PWR / AP1000 | 1170 MW | 1250 MW | 3415 MW | 2010-06-20 | 2018-09-29 | 2018-10-13 | 2019-01-09 | [2] |
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Haiyang 3 | PWR / CAP1000 | 1170 MW | 1250 MW | 3415 MW | 2022-07-07 | ||||
Haiyang 4 | PWR / CAP1000 | 1170 MW | 1250 MW | 3415 MW | |||||
Phase III [11]: Nuclear power units proposed | |||||||||
Haiyang 5 | PWR / CAP1400 | ||||||||
Haiyang 6 | PWR / CAP1400 | ||||||||
Haiyang 7 | PWR / CAP1400 | ||||||||
Haiyang 8 | PWR / CAP1400 |
In September 2020, the plant's owner and a thermal company instigated a plan to heat all of Haiyang city via heat exchange.[12] Two months later, 700,000 square meters of housing had been heated and the project was en route for completion in its entirety in 2021.[13][14] The switch to clean energy is expected to eliminate more than 60,000 tonnes of fossil fuel emissions[12] each year, and the corresponding reduction in air pollution is anticipated to save about 600 lives annually.[15]
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