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Ling Ao 1 & 2
GENERAL MANAGER: Fan Heming
DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER: Zeng Wenxing
PROJECT MANAGER: Yan Bomin
LOCATION: Daya Bay, Shenzhen, Guangdong
Established in October 1995, the Ling Ao Nuclear Power Company is located one kilometer east of the Daya Bay nuclear power plant. China is building two 900 MWe reactors supplied by the French company Framatome. Construction began on 15 May 1997 on Ling Ao-1, with work on the containment being completed in April 1999. On the night of 8 December 2001 Ling Ao-1 started trial operations. It was incorporated into the Guangdong power grid on 26 February 2002, and began commercial operations on 28 May 2002. The Ling Ao-2 fuel load was completed on 18 July 2002, and is scheduled to begin operation in March 2003. The total project is estimated to cost US $4 billion.
The first indigenously produced reactor core in China was completed in August 2000 and will be installed at the Ling Ao nuclear power plant. Xinhua News Agency reported that the core is manufactured from a special type of stainless steel. The core is 11 meters long, four meters wide and weights 127 tons. The core's tolerances are reported to be only 0.1 millimeters. The production of the reactor was undertaken by the Shanghai No. 1 Machine and Tool Works in cooperation with the French Framatome Group. Total joint investment for the reactor core is estimated to be US $12 million.
[Sources: NucNet News, 168/99, 20 April 2000; Yan Bomin
and Zeng Wenxing, "Example of NPP under construction: Ling Ao," Nuclear
Europe Worldscan, November/December, 1999, p. 37; Tang Zongyu, "Guide to
Chinese nuclear organizations," Nuclear Europe Worldscan,
November/December, 1999, p. 56; Gong Zhengzheng, "Nuclear Reactor Core Made,"
China Daily, 3 August 2000, p.5; "Joint Reactor Core Project Helps China
Power Up Nuclear-Equipment Production Capabilities," Xinhua News Agency
in China Daily On-line
(www.chinaonline.com), 7 August 2000; Zhang Qiang, "Ling Ao Nuke Plant
Begins Trial Operation, " People's Daily, 9 December 2001, p.1; "Ling Ao
Nuclear Plant in Shenzhen Passes Tests, Begins Commercial Operations,"
Beijing Xinhua, 28 May 2002 in FBIS CPP20020528000062; "Ling AO-2 Fuel Load
Complete,"
Nucleonics Week 43 no. 32, 8 August 2002.
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