The first phase of the Ling'ao nuclear power plant passed state
checks after trial operation for one and a half years in Guangdong
Province Friday.
Ling'ao Nuclear Power Plant, situated in Shenzhen, a boom town
facing Hong Kong across a river, is the second commercial nuclear
power plant Guangdong Nuclear Power Group has constructed in
Guangdong, one of China's economic powerhouses.
The plant is scheduled to be equipped with four one-million-kw
generators in two construction phases. Two one-million-kw
generators with a designed life span of 40 years were installed for
the trial operation.
Construction of the first phase began on May 15, 1997 and the
two generators were put into commercial use on May 28, 2002 and on
Jan. 8, 2003 respectively, and produced 6.157 billion
kilowatt-hours of electricity in the first half of this year, which
helped relieve power shortage in south China.
(Xinhua News Agency July 18, 2004)