CGNPC's Ling'ao II Nuclear Power Station Begins Full Operations

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Following its successful connection to China Southern Power Grid on May 3, 2011, Unit 2 of the Ling'ao II Nuclear Power Project, which is operated by Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operation Management Company Limited (Shenzhen, Guangdong), a professional subsidiary of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPG) (Shenzhen), passed the 168-hour stable operation acceptance test on August 7, 2011. Upon the confirmation of China Southern Power Grid, the unit was put into commercial operation eight days ahead of schedule. Ling'ao II Nuclear Power Station is now fully complete and was in full operation, the CGNPC announced on August 8.

During the acceptance test, various parameters of Unit 2 were satisfactory with the design requirement. With the official operation of the unit in Ling'ao II, the number of operating units in the Daya Bay is six, and it has become the largest nuclear base in China, with a total installed capacity of 6,108 megawatts (MW) and an annual power output more than 45 billion kilowatt-hours.

Ling'ao II is the only nuclear power project built during China's 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-05) and the third nuclear power project built in South China's Guangdong province, following Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station and Ling'ao I Nuclear Power Station. The project features two 1,080-megawatt (MW) pressurized water reactor nuclear power units with the adoption of CGNPG's CPR1000 technology. China Nuclear Power Engineering Company (Shenzhen) served as the general contractor of the project. China Nuclear Power Design Company Limited (Shenzhen), Nuclear Power Institute of China (Beijing), Beijing Institute of Nuclear Engineering (BINE), two subsidiaries of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) (Beijing), and Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute Company Limited (Guangzhou, Guangdong), are jointly responsible for the design and engineering of the project. In addition, 198 domestic suppliers, including Dongfang Electric Corporation (Chengdu, Sichuan), Shanghai Electric Corporation (Shanghai), China First Heavy Industries Corporation (Qiqihar, Heilongjiang), participated in manufacturing equipment for the project.

Unit 2 is the second 1,000-MW nuclear power unit based on CPR1000 technology. Construction of the unit began on June 5, 2006.

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