Guangxi Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Co Ltd said construction of two new Hualong One reactor units (5&6) has started at the Fangchenggang NPP in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Fangchenggang unit 4 began commercial operation in May 2024. The 1,180 MWe pressurised water reactor was the second of two demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors (units 3&4) at the site. The Fangchenggang plant will eventually house six reactors. Phase one (units 1&2) are CPR-1000 units which began commercial operation in 2016.
By the end of March 2025, the four operating units at Fangchenggang had generated more than 160 TWh of electricity, equivalent to saving over 48m tonnes of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by roughly 131m tonnes.
Yang Changli, chairman of the China General Nuclear Power Corporation, which owns the Fangchenggang project, said the Hualong One industrial chain had helped enable the domestic production of over 400 key components, involving more than 5,400 upstream and downstream enterprises.
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