Two major companies

China now has a total of 11 nuclear reactors in operation, with a combined installed capacity of 9,080 mW. All of these have developed by the two major companies, China National Nuclear Corp and China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group.

Today the two companies are attaching equal importance to indigenous technological development and the introduction of foreign technology.

Shenzhen-based Guangdong Nuclear Power group is now focusing on its CPR1000 pressurized-water reactor technology. It has used the technology to build the Hongyanhe nuclear power station, in northeastern Liaoning province.

CNNC used its own technology to build the Qinshan nuclear power plant in Zhejiang province. Its Tianwan nuclear power plant in Lianyungang went into commercial operation last year. With two 1,060-mW pressurized water reactors using technology from Russia, the plant is now the largest such joint project between China and Russia.

(China Daily March 2, 2009)