Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant
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The Sanmen Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power station under construction in Sanmen
County, Zhejiang
Province
in China
. Groundbreaking for the first and second units was held February 26, 2008, and construction is planned to start on the third and fourth units during 2009. The first unit will come online in 2013 with the other three finished in 2014–15.
Sanmen NPS will be the first implementation of the AP1000 pressurized water reactor
(PWR) developed by Westinghouse Electric Company
. Announcement of the project start came roughly twelve months after Westinghouse won a bidding contest over other companies including General Electric
. The contract for the new plant involves The Shaw Group
, a minority shareholder in Westinghouse. Westinghouse is controlled by Japanese giant Toshiba
. The Shaw Group will provide engineering, procurement, commissioning, information management and project management services.
The first pair of reactors will cost more than 40 billion yuan
(US$5.88 billion).
Excavation for the first unit was completed in September 2008. Quality of the pit was certified, putting the project 67 days ahead of schedule. Construction of Sanmen Unit 1 began on April 19, 2009, as the first 5,200 m³
of concrete were poured for the foundation, in a ceremony attended by State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNTPC) chair Wang Binghua and Westinghouse CEO Aris Candris.
First concrete for Sanmen 2 was poured on December 15, 2009. The State Nuclear Power Technology Company said that the project was six weeks ahead of schedule. It is meant to begin operation in June 2014.
Sanmen County
Sanmen County Sanmen County Sanmen County ((Tai-chow dialect: Sæn-meng Yön; Simplified Chinese: 三门县; Hanyu Pinyin: Sānmén Xiàn) is a county under the jurisdiction of Taizhou city/Municipality in Zhejiang Province of the People's Republic of China. The county's total area is 1072 square kilometers,...
County, Zhejiang
Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...
Province
Province (China)
A province, in the context of Chinese government, is a translation of sheng formally provincial level divisions, which is an administrative division. Provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions, and the special administrative regions, make up the four types of province of administrative division...
in China
China
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. Groundbreaking for the first and second units was held February 26, 2008, and construction is planned to start on the third and fourth units during 2009. The first unit will come online in 2013 with the other three finished in 2014–15.
Sanmen NPS will be the first implementation of the AP1000 pressurized water reactor
Pressurized water reactor
Pressurized water reactors constitute a large majority of all western nuclear power plants and are one of three types of light water reactor , the other types being boiling water reactors and supercritical water reactors...
(PWR) developed by Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is a nuclear power company, offering a wide range of nuclear products and services to utilities throughout the world, including nuclear fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation and control and advanced nuclear plant designs...
. Announcement of the project start came roughly twelve months after Westinghouse won a bidding contest over other companies including General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
. The contract for the new plant involves The Shaw Group
The Shaw Group
The Shaw Group is a Fortune 500 corporation headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As of February 27, 2011, the company employed approximately 28,000 people all over the world with 7 billion dollar revenue in 2010...
, a minority shareholder in Westinghouse. Westinghouse is controlled by Japanese giant Toshiba
Toshiba
is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
. The Shaw Group will provide engineering, procurement, commissioning, information management and project management services.
The first pair of reactors will cost more than 40 billion yuan
Renminbi
The Renminbi is the official currency of the People's Republic of China . Renminbi is legal tender in mainland China, but not in Hong Kong or Macau. It is issued by the People's Bank of China, the monetary authority of the PRC...
(US$5.88 billion).
Excavation for the first unit was completed in September 2008. Quality of the pit was certified, putting the project 67 days ahead of schedule. Construction of Sanmen Unit 1 began on April 19, 2009, as the first 5,200 m³
Cubic metre
The cubic metre is the SI derived unit of volume. It is the volume of a cube with edges one metre in length. An alternative name, which allowed a different usage with metric prefixes, was the stère...
of concrete were poured for the foundation, in a ceremony attended by State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNTPC) chair Wang Binghua and Westinghouse CEO Aris Candris.
First concrete for Sanmen 2 was poured on December 15, 2009. The State Nuclear Power Technology Company said that the project was six weeks ahead of schedule. It is meant to begin operation in June 2014.
| Unit | Type | Construction start | Operation start | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phase I | ||||
| Sanmen 1 | AP1000 | April 19, 2009 | October 2013 | |
| Sanmen 2 | AP1000 | December 15, 2009 | June 2014 | |
| Phase II | ||||
| Sanmen 3 | AP1000 | |||
| Sanmen 4 | AP1000 | |||
| Sanmen 5 | AP1000 | |||
| Sanmen 6 | AP1000 | |||
External links
- Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Retrieved 2009-12-16.
- "Corporate News" State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC). Retrieved 2009-12-16.
- "Sanmen Nuclear Power Company, Ltd." China National Nuclear CorporationChina National Nuclear CorporationThe China National Nuclear Corporation was established on 16 September 1988 by a Government of China decree. CNNC's president and vice-president are appointed by the Premier of the State Council. However the CNNC is a self-supporting economic corporation, not a government administrative body. It...
(CNNC). Retrieved 2009-12-16.