Vessel installed at Fangchenggang 2
26 September 2014
The reactor pressure vessel has been installed at the second unit of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi province.
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| The reactor vessel is lowered into place at Fangchenggang 2 (Image: CNEC) |
Plant constructor China Nuclear Engineering and Construction Corporation (CNECC) announced that the vessel was successfully located on its support ring within the containment building at 3:00pm on 25 September.
Fangchenggang is located near Hongsha village in the Guangxi Autonomous Region, about 45 kilometres from the border with Vietnam. A total of six reactors are planned to operate there. Units 1 and 2 are CPR-1000s, units 3 and 4 are planned to be the evolutionary ACPR-1000 development, and units 5 and 6 are to be AP1000s. All of these are models of large pressurized water reactor.
Units 1 and 2 are slated to begin operation in 2015 and 2016. The plant is 39% owned by Guangxi Investment Group and 61% owned by China General Nuclear (CGN).
The cost of constructing Phase I is RMB 25 billion ($4.1 billion). Some 87% of the equipment to be used in the Phase I units is expected to be sourced from Chinese suppliers.
Researched and written
by World Nuclear News