Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant

Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant
The Qinshan 3-1 and 3-2 CANDU reactors
location
Coordinates	30 ° 26 '10 "  N , 120 ° 57' 29"  E Coordinates: 30 ° 26 '10 "  N , 120 ° 57' 29"  E
Country:	People's Republic of China
Data
Owner:	Block 1: Qinshan Nuclear Power Company; Blocks 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4: Nuclear Power Plant Qinshan Joint Venture Company LTD .; Blocks 3-1, 3-2: The Third Qinshan Jointed Venture Company Ltda.
Operator:	Block 1: Qinshan Nuclear Power Company; Blocks 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4: Nuclear Power Plant Qinshan Joint Venture Company LTD .; Blocks 3-1, 3-2: The Third Qinshan Jointed Venture Company Ltda.
Commercial operation:	April 1, 1994
Active reactors (gross):	7 (4320 MW)
Reactors under construction (gross):	2 (2160 MW)
Energy fed in in 2010:	23,892.72 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	186,602.97 GWh
Was standing:	April 20, 2013
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Qinshan nuclear power plant is located in Qinshan , Haiyan County (approx. 100 km southwest of Shanghai ) in the Zhejiang Province in the People's Republic of China . There are currently seven units in operation with a gross output of 4,320 MW. Two further reactors with a gross output of 1080 MW each are under construction, and further units are in the planning stage.

Qinshan-1 is the only block that was not planned and built as a twin. It was designed and built almost entirely in China. The Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research & Design Institute (SNERDI) was responsible . However, the reactor pressure vessel was supplied by Mitsubishi . The reactor type was also exported to Pakistan to build the Chashma nuclear power plant there. Unit 1 is operated by Qinshan Nuclear Power Company .

Blocks 2 and 3 are an enlarged version of Qinshan-1. The operator here is Nuclear Power Qinshan JV Corporation, Ltd.

history

The nuclear power plant was built in four phases.

Construction phase I

In the first construction phase, the Qinshan 1 reactor with a gross output of 310 MW was built. Construction began on March 20, 1985. The reactor went critical for the first time on October 31, 1991 . The facility was the first domestically designed and built nuclear power plant in China; H. over 95% of the components come from domestic production.

The reactor was shut down from mid-1998 for 14 months due to urgent repair work.

In October 2007, Qinshan-1 was shut down for a renewal for about two months, during which all instrumentation and control systems were replaced, along with the reactor pressure vessel head and control rod drive. The work could lead to an extension of the duration beyond the originally planned 30 years.

Construction phase II

In the second phase, the medium-sized reactors Qinshan 2-1 and Qinshan 2-2 of the Chinese type CNP-600 with 650 MW were built. The steam generators were manufactured by the Shanghai Boiler Factory in association with Westinghouse . Construction began on June 2, 1996 for Qinshan 2-1 and on April 1, 1997 for Qinshan 2-2 , which became critical for the first time on November 15, 2001 and February 25, 2004 and since April 18, 2002, respectively May 3, 2004 in commercial operation.

Construction phase III

The third construction phase includes the construction of two reactors in the CANDU design. The reactors were developed in a joint venture with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited . This was supposedly the largest business venture between Canada and China up to that point. Construction of the two reactors with a gross output of 700 MW began on June 8, 1998 and September 25, 1998, respectively. The Qinshan 3-1 reactor became critical on September 21, 2002, and the Qinshan 3-2 reactor on January 18, 2003 . The two units have been in commercial use since December 31, 2002 and July 27, 2003, respectively. The blocks were delivered turnkey. They are the first CANDU reactors in China. In 2010, attempts to reuse spent fuel from normal light water reactors in the Qinshan 3-1 reactor were started for the first time. For this purpose, the old fuel, which still contains sufficient U ²³⁵ , is blended with depleted uranium to produce fuel that corresponds to natural uranium. The tests are being carried out with the assistance of the Canadian CANDU developer Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL).

Construction phase IV

The fourth construction phase continues phase II and expands the nuclear power plant by two further reactors of the type CNP-600 with 650 MW. The Qinshan 2-3 and Qinshan 2-4 reactors had been under construction since March 28, 2006 and January 28, 2007, respectively. Qinshan 2-3 was connected to east China's power grid on August 1, 2010. After a test phase, commercial operation began in October 2010. Qinshan 2-4 was connected to the power grid on November 25, 2011, and commercial operation began on December 30, 2011.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant has seven operating units and two more are under construction:

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Qinshan 1	Pressurized water reactor (CNP-300)	298 MW	320 MW	03/20/1985	12/15/1991	04/01/1994
Qinshan 2-1	Pressurized water reactor (CNP-600)	610 MW	650 MW	06/02/1996	02/06/2002	04/18/2002
Qinshan 2-2	Pressurized water reactor (CNP-600)	610 MW	650 MW	04/01/1997	03/11/2004	05/03/2004
Qinshan 2-3	Pressurized water reactor (CNP-600)	610 MW	650 MW	03/28/2006	08/01/2010	10/21/2010
Qinshan 2-4	Pressurized water reactor (CNP-600)	610 MW	650 MW	01/28/2007	11/25/2011	12/30/2011
Qinshan 3-1	CANDU reactor (CANDU 6)	650 MW	728 MW	06/08/1998	11/19/2002	December 31, 2002
Qinshan 3-2	CANDU reactor (CANDU 6)	650 MW	728 MW	09/25/1998	06/12/2003	07/24/2003
Fangjiashan 1	Pressurized water reactor (CNP-1000)	1000 MW	1080 MW	December 26, 2008	08/20/2014	12/15/2014
Fangjiashan 2	Pressurized water reactor (CNP-1000)	1000 MW	1080 MW	07/17/2009	01/12/2015	02/12/2015

See also

• List of nuclear power plants
• List of nuclear reactors in the People's Republic of China
• List of CANDU reactors

Web links

Commons : Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC )
• NTI - Qinshan Phase 1, 2 and 3 (English)
• Qinshan Nuclear Power Company (English)
• Nuclear Power Qinshan Joint Venture Company (English)
• Plague: Qinshan (China)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf63.html WNA - Nuclear Power in China; January 2007
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated April 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Chinese Candu reactor trials uranium reuse
4. ^ Latest Qinshan unit goes commercial
5. ^ Nuclear milestones for China
6. ^ WNA Reactor Database - Qinshan-7 , World Nuclear Association
7. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "China, People's Republic of: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)