Ø            Daya Bay Nuclear Power Base

Daya Bay Nuclear Power Base is located on the Daipeng Peninsula in eastern part of Shenzhen Municipality, Guangdong Province, on the western shore of Daya Bay.  It is about 50 km form the city centre of Hong Kong and 45 km from the centre of Shenzhen City.  The nearest town is Dapeng, about 7 km from the nuclear power base.

The site contains two operating nuclear power stations, namely Daya Bay and Ling Ao, and one nuclear power station Ling Ao Phase 2 under construction.  China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Company (CGNPC) is the shareholder, except for Daya Bay at which the CLP Group in Hong Kong holds a 25% equity.  Ling Ao is about 1 km to the east of Daya Bay.

1)      Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station

Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station, also known as Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station, is the first civil nuclear power station of a commercial capacity in Mainland China.  It is a twin 900 MW class PWR nuclear power station using Framatome reactor technology and GEC-Alsthom turbine-generator technology.  Most of the equipment of the station was imported from France or the UK.

Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station began construction in 1987, reaching first criticality in 1993 and commercial operation in February 1994 and May 1994 for the two units.  Seventy percent of its electricity is purchased by CLP in Hong Kong.  The construction cost was USD 4 billion.

The station operates an 18 month fuel cycle.  Its recent annual capacity factor is at about 90%.

2)      Ling Ao Nuclear Power Station

Ling Ao Nuclear Power Station is a twin 990 MW PWR nuclear power station taking reference to the design of Daya Bay with a number of upgrades and an increase of local contents to 30%.

The station began construction in 1996, reached first criticality in February 2002 and commercial operation in May 2002 and January 2003 for the two units.  The construction cost was USD 3.7 billion.

Typical recent annual capacity factor is at about 90%.

3)      Site development

Construction began for Ling Ao Nuclear Power Station (Phase 2) in December 2005, for a twin 1000 MW class PWR nuclear power station as a demonstration project of the CGNPC twin 1080 MW CPR-1000 design.  The indigenous design makes reference to the Daya Bay/Ling Ao design and has the following features:

• A 60 year design life
• Digital station control
• Turbine generator at 1500 rpm
• 50% localization or above

First grid connection was reached in July 2010 and commercial operation of the two units is planned for late 2010 and mid2011.