16 Jul (NucNet): CGN Power, a subsidiary of China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), has completed a trial run of the Yangjiang-5 nuclear power plant in south China’s Guangdong Province and said the unit is ready for commercial operation.
CGN said the indigenous 1,000-MW ACPR1000 unit had completed a 168-hour trial operation at 1,080-MW capacity.
Construction of Unit 5, which was connected to the grid in May 2018, began in September 2013.
The unit is the first ACPR1000 reactor to be built and the first Chinese plant to feature a domestically developed digital control system.
According to International Atomic Energy Agency statistics there are 42 nuclear units in commercial operation in China, including Yangjiang-5, and 15 under construction.
A total of six reactors are planned for the site. An identical unit, Yangjiang-6, is under construction and is scheduled to begin commercial operation in 2019.
Yangjiang-4, a 1,000-MW CPR1000 unit, began commercial operation in March 2017. It was the last of four CPR1000 reactors to be built at the site. Yangjiang-1 began commercial operation in March 2014, followed by Yangjiang-2 in June 2015 and Yangjiang-3 in January 2016.
The Yangjiang-5 plant is owned and operated by Yangjiang Nuclear Power Company, which is 29% owned by CGN Power, 30% by CGN Power subsidiary GNIC, 7% by CGN Industry Investment Fund Phase I, 17% by Guangdong Yudean Group and 17% by Hong Kong-based power company CLP Holdings Limited.
