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Installation of World's First Linglong One Nuclear Island Starts

Updated: December 14, 2022

Installation of the world's first Linglong One nuclear island, a multi-purpose small modular reactor (SMR) demonstration project, started on Nov 30 in Changjiang Li Autonomous County, South China's Hainan Province.

The reactor building is the main part of a nuclear power plant. The mechanical facilities are like the organs of the plant connected to each other by "blood vessels" - the pipelines. Installation of the reactor building pushed forward construction progress of other buildings of the plant.

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A bird's-eye view of the reactor building of the world's first Linglong One nuclear island. Its installation started on Nov 30 in Changjiang Li Autonomous County, South China's Hainan Province [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

The project is expected to contribute to realizing China's "dual carbon" goals of peaking carbon dioxide by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, and support development of the Hainan Free Trade Port.

China National Nuclear Corporation is responsible for the project.



(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)