FACTBOX-China's nuclear power plants and plans

BEIJING, Sept 28 - China's State Council, the cabinet, has formally approved the construction of Shandong Haiyang Nuclear Power Station, the second in the country that will be based on the AP1000 third generation technologies imported from U.S.-based, Japanese-owned Westinghouse. [ID:nPEK249324]

China has 11 working reactors with 9.07 gigawatts of total capacity and wants to raise its capacity to 60 GW by 2020, over 5 percent of its total installed capacity, or enough to power Spain. Officials said China is considering raising the already ambitious goal to 70 GW by 2020.

The following lists China's nuclear power plants already operating, under construction, approved by the government or planned.

(Capacity in megawatts) Plant (province) Capacity Start-up Technology

supplier ---------------------------------------------------------------- IN USE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Qinshan phase I (Zhejiang) 300 1991 indigenous Qinshan phase II (Zhejiang) 650X2 2002/04 AECL, Canada Daya Bay (Guangdong) 984X2 1994 Framatome, France Ling Ao phase I (Guangdong) 990x2 2003 Framatome Qinshan phase III (Zhejiang) 700X2 2003 AECL Tianwan plant I (Jiangsu) 1,060 2006 Rostam, Russia Tianwan Plant II (Jiangsu) 1,060 2007 Rostam, Russia ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL 9,068 ---------------------------------------------------------------- UNDER CONSTRUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------- Qinshan phase II (Zhejiang) 650x2 2011 AECL Ling Ao phase II (Guangdong) 1,080x2 2010/11 Framatome Hongyanhe (Liaoning) 1,000X4 2012/14 indigenous Ningde (Fujian) 1,000X4 2012/15 indigenous Fuqing (Fujian) 1,000x6 2013- indigenous Yangjiang (Guangdong) 1,000x6 2013/17 indigenous Qinshan/Fangjiashan (Zhejiang) 1,000x2 2013/14 indigenous Sanmen (Zhejiang) 1,000X2 2013 Westinghouse ---------------------------------------------------------------- APPROVED ---------------------------------------------------------------- Haiyang (Shandong) 1,000X2 2014/15 Westinghouse Taishan (Guangdong) 1,600x2 NA Areva Changjiang (Hainan) 650x2 2014/15 indigenous Rongcheng (Shandong) 200 NA indigenous ---------------------------------------------------------------- PLANNED ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fangcheng(Guangxi) 1,000x4 NA NA Wuhu (Anhui) 1,000x4 NA NA Xianning (Hubei) NA NA NA Taohuajiang (Hunan) NA NA NA Pengze (Jiangxi) NA NA NA ----------------------------------------------------------------