Construction of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant Starts on August 7, 1987

Construction of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant started on August 7, 1987. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

Construction of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant starts on August 7, 1987

Construction of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant began on August 7, 1987.

Operated by China General Nuclear Power Corporation, the station has two pressurized water reactor nuclear power units, each with a gross installed capacity of 984,000 kilowatts, and is able to generate nearly 15 billion kWh of electricity per year.

The plant, with an investment of $4.6 billion, was China's first large-scale commercial nuclear power plant introducing foreign technologies and having foreign financial support.

The station was the largest Sino-foreign joint venture project and a remarkable one in the early days of China's opening-up and reform.

China's first self-owned brand ten million kilowatt-level nuclear power units are completed on August 7, 2011

The No.2 power generator unit of the Guangdong Lingao Nuclear Power Station, affiliated to China General Nuclear Power Corporation's Daya Bay Nuclear Power Base, passed inspection and was approved for operation on August 7, 2011.

The operation of the unit marked the full completion of China's first two domestically designed, manufactured, constructed and operated self branded ten million kilowatt-level nuclear power generator units.

The two generator units are powered by pressurized water reactors and were built with the self-developed CPR1000 nuclear power technology.

It was the only domestically-supported nuclear power project during the period of the 10th Five-year Plan (2001-2005).

Its start-up laid a solid foundation for the intensification, normalization and serialization of China's nuclear power industry.

(Executive editor: Hao Wen)