Site is planned to have six Hualong One nuclear units
Workers have installed the first segment of the inner steel containment for the Taipingling-3 Hualong One nuclear power plant under construction in China’s southern province of Guangdong, according to the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA).
The CNEA said the first segment serves as the bottom of the reactor containment building. It has a diameter of about 40 metres, a height of about six metres and weighs about 130 tonnes.
Taipingling will have six domestically developed Hualong One pressurised water reactor units built in phases, earlier reports have said.
Construction of Taipingling-3 began in June 2025 with the pouring of first concrete for the unit’s nuclear island.
Taipingling-1 and Taipingling-2 were first laid down in December 2019 and October 2020.
The Hualong One, also known as the HPR1000, is a domestically developed pressurised water reactor that combines features from China National Nuclear Corporation’s ACP1000 and China General Nuclear’s ACPR1000+ designs. I
Hualong One is now China’s flagship reactor technology comprising about half of all reactor new-build projects in the country.
