| Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, November 15, 2001 |
China Starts to Install Equipment for Sino-Russian Nuclear Power Station |
 Chinese and Russian technicians Wednesday installed the reactor containment for the No. 1 nuclear island of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Station in the port city of Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province. The move marks the beginning of the project's equipment installment from civil engineers.
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Largest cooperative project between the two countries
Located in Lianyungang, the Tianwan Nuclear Power Station is the largest cooperative project between the two countries. It is expected to become China's key power supply center in the 21st century.
The first phase construction of the power project started in October 1999 and is scheduled to finish in 2004. The second-phase construction began in September and is expected to be completed in 2005.
The first phase of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Station has two nuclear power generating units with a designed capacity of 1.06 million kilowatts.
The first batch of major equipment produced by Russia for the Sino-Russian Tianwan Nuclear Power Station was shipped to the port city of Lianyungang in east China's Jiangsu province Friday. All 813 pieces of the equipment, in 16 batches, weighing 22,000 tons in total are expected to arrive by March 2004.
Project going smoothly with support of governments
Chen Zhaobo, chairman of the board of the Jiangsu Nuclear Power Co., said the Tianwan project has been going smoothly with the support of the Chinese and Russian governments.
Alexander Rumyantsev, Russian Nuclear Power Minister, said during his trip to Lianyungang that Russia also attaches great importance to the construction of the nuclear power plant, and hopes to explore more opportunities for cooperation between the two countries on nuclear energy.
Solid technological backing
The new station is designed in strict compliance with the latest safety regulations and norms from the International Atomic Energy Agency and also takes into account the experience of Russia and other Western countries in building and operating nuclear power stations.
The equipment was produced under the supervision of more than 40 Chinese nuclear specialists in Russia.
Key technology used for it has been modeled after that of nuclear power stations in Russia and other countries.
The new station will have four Russia-made pressurized water reactors, each with a generating capacity of one million kilowatts, said Ouyang Yu, chief engineer of the Jiangsu Nuclear Power Co.
Siemens digital instrumentation and control systems, believed to be the most advanced in the world, will be adopted to ensure the sound, smooth operation of the nuclear station.
| China now has four nuclear power projects under construction. The other three are the second and third phases of the Qinshan Nuclear Power Station in east China's Zhejiang Province and the Ling'ao Nuclear Power Station in south China's Guangdong Province. |
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