First concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 1 of China’s Bailong Nuclear Power Plant Being built by the State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) on the Jiangshan Peninsula in Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Province.
Bailong NPP is to have six units with a total installed capacity of 8,620 MWe – two CAP1000 reactors in Phase One and four CAP1400 reactors in subsequent phase. The first phase of the Bailong project (units 1&2) was part of a list of 11 units for which construction permits were issued by the State Council (Government) of China in August 2024. An investment of about CNY40bn ($5.6bn) is planned for construction these two units, which is expected to take about five years.
The amount of concrete poured for the unit 1 nuclear island was about 6,615 cubic metres, and the pouring lasted nearly 60 hours. In order to ensure the safe and high-quality implementation of pouring, SPIC subsidiary Guangxi Nuclear Power’s joint participating units established a special command organisation to oversee the entire process.
