Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant

Not to be confused with Taishan Nuclear Power Plant.

The Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant (秦山核电站) is a multi-unit nuclear power plant in Qinshan Town, Haiyan County, in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China.

Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant
Qinshan Phase III Units 1 & 2
Country	China
Location	Qinshan, Zhejiang
Coordinates	30°25′59″N 120°57′0″E
Status	Operational
Construction began	March 20, 1985 (I) June 2, 1996 (II-1) April 1, 1997 (II-2) April 28, 2006 (II-3) January 28, 2007 (II-4) June 8, 1998 (III-1) September 25, 1998 (III-2)
Commission date	April 1, 1994 (I) April 15, 2002 (II-1) May 3, 2004 (II-2) October 5, 2010 (II-3) December 30, 2011 (II-4) December 31, 2002 (III-1) July 24, 2003 (III-2)
Owners	Qinshan Nuclear Power[1] Nuclear Power Plant Qinshan Joint Venture Company[2][3][4][5] The Third Qinshan Joint Venture Company[6][7]
Operators	CNNC Nuclear Operation Management[1] Nuclear Power Plant Qinshan Joint Venture Company[2][3][4][5] The Third Qinshan Joint Venture Company[6][7]
Nuclear power station
Reactors	2
Reactor type	PWR (I; II 1–4) CANDU PHWR (III 1–2)
Reactor supplier	China National Nuclear Corporation (I; II 1–4) Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (III 1–2)
Cooling source	Hangzhou Bay
Thermal capacity	1 × 966 MWth 4 × 1930 MWth 2 × 2064 MWth
Power generation
Units operational	1 × 308 MW 2 × 610 MW 2 × 619 MW 2 × 677 MW
Make and model	1 × CNP-300 (I) 4 × CNP-600 (II 1–4) 2 × CANDU 6 (III 1–2)
Nameplate capacity	4110 MW
Capacity factor	90.59% (2017) 88.21% (lifetime)
Annual net output	32,614 GWh (2017)
External links
Commons	Related media on Commons

Development

The construction of the units involved three separate phases.

Phase I

Involved construction of the small-scale (≈300 MW) Unit-1 only, but was the first domestically designed and constructed nuclear power plant in the nation (95 percent of components came from domestic manufactures).^[8]

Phase II

The next set of reactors were mid-scale plants (≈600 MW) but still of Chinese design (CNP-600). The steam generators were made by Babcock & Wilcox of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.

Phase III

Involved construction of two 728 MW (gross) CANDU-6 series of the CANDU reactor design supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. This was reported to be the largest business venture between Canada and China to that time.^{[citation needed]} In 2001, it was visited by the Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien;^[9] both units were online by 2003.^[6][7]

Although Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant is technically a separate entity from Qinshan, the World Nuclear Association considers it to essentially be an extension of the Qinshan plant due to their proximity and the fact that the original two reactors built at Fangjiashan were initially intended to be built at Qinshan phase IV (which is no longer planned).^[10]

Reactor data

Reactors^[11]

Unit	Type	Model	Net power	Gross power	Thermal power	Start construction	First criticality	Grid connection	Commercial operation	Notes
Phase I
Qinshan I	PWR	CNP-300	308 MW	330 MW	966 MWt	March 20, 1985	October 31, 1991	December 15, 1991	April 1, 1994	[1]
Phase II
Qinshan II-1	PWR	CNP-600	610 MW	650 MW	1930 MWt	June 2, 1996	November 15, 2001	February 6, 2002	April 15, 2002	[2]
Qinshan II-2	PWR	CNP-600	610 MW	650 MW	1930 MWt	April 1, 1997	February 25, 2004	March 11, 2004	May 3, 2004	[3]
Qinshan II-3	PWR	CNP-600	619 MW	660 MW	1930 MWt	April 28, 2006	July 13, 2010	August 1, 2010	October 5, 2010	[4]
Qinshan II-4	PWR	CNP-600	619 MW	660 MW	1930 MWt	January 28, 2007	November 17, 2011	November 25, 2011	December 30, 2011	[5]
Phase III
Qinshan III-1	PHWR	CANDU 6	677 MW	728 MW	2064 MWt	June 8, 1998	September 21, 2002	November 19, 2002	December 31, 2002	[6]
Qinshan III-2	PHWR	CANDU 6	677 MW	728 MW	2064 MWt	September 25, 1998	January 18, 2003	June 12, 2003	July 24, 2003	[7]

In 2019 Qinshan 1 was upgraded and uprated to 350 MWe (net) from its original output power of 300 MWe.^[12]

See also

• Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant
• List of power stations in China
• Nuclear power in China