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Long-Term Outage
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Number of Reactors
(as of January 2026)
11.2
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
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31 July 2025 [nl]
De Morgen (Belgium)
China’s groene revolutie: van grootste vervuiler naar klimaatkampioen
Razendsnel en op ongekende schaal rolt China duurzame energie uit. Daarmee is het land zowel de grootste vervuiler als de grootste voortrekker van de groene transitie ter wereld. by Cindy Huijgen • 25 July 2025 Van de uitgestrekte woestijnen in Xinjiang tot aan de zuidelijke kust van Hainan sieren zonnepanelen en draaiende windturbines het Chinese landschap. In grote steden zijn nagenoeg alle bussen en scooters elektrisch en kiezen steeds meer inwoners voor een e-auto. „‘Nu we ons (…)
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8 May 2023
CNBC
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TV18
(India)
“China-led Asia rises in nuclear energy development amid the ongoing energy crisis”
“If a comparison is drawn out between China and India, then the former’s nuclear power generation has increased by 11 percent and accounted for 5 percent of total electricity production in 2021. On the other hand, India’s nuclear generation has been declining since 2019 and represented 3.2 percent of total electricity production in 2021.” By Ashutosh Patki • published 2 May 2023 (Updated 3 May 2023) As the world grapples with the persisting energy crisis, China-led Asia emerges as a hub (…)
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15 July 2022
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Nuclear Construction Starts 2022: China 4, Rest of the World 0
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, 15 July 2022 China launches the fourth nuclear reactor construction in 2022, Unit 3 at the Haiyang site in the Shandong province. Reportedly, work on the
CAP1000
, the Chinese adaptation of Westinghouse’s
AP1000
, started with the concreting of the base slab of the reactor building already on 7 July 2022. The event at Haiyang follows the beginning of the Sanmen-3 building in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on 28 June 2022. Both sites already host two
AP1000
reactors, and the addition of (…)
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29 June 2022
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Third Nuclear Reactor Construction Start in China in 2022
As of mid-year, no new-build launched yet in any other country
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, 29 June 2022 The China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
) announced the beginning of the concrete pour for the base of the reactor building at Sanmen-3 in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on 28 June 2022. The act marks the official construction start of the first reactor based on the
CAP1000
design, the Chinese adaptation of the Westinghouse
AP1000
design. The Sanmen site already hosts two
AP1000
that started generating power in 2018. Sanmen-3, to be followed by Sanmen-4, is the (…)
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20 May 2022
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Second Russian Nuclear Reactor Construction Start in China This Year—Anyways 2
Russian nuclear company Rosatom announced the construction start on 19 May 2022 of the Xudabu-4 reactor in China. This is the second official building launch of a Russian nuclear unit in China since the beginning of the war in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The following day, Rosatom had started construction of the Tianwan-8 reactor in Jiangsu province in eastern China. Pouring of basemat concrete for the reactor building at the Xudabu-4 unit — Photo Rosatom Representatives of Rosatom (…)
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6 May 2022
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Startup of Hongyanhe-6 Nuclear Reactor in China
Hongyanhe-6 in Dalian, Liaoning province, China, was connected to the grid for the first time on 2 May 2022. The Hongyanhe plant is owned and operated by Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co, a joint venture between China General Nuclear Power Corporation (
CGN
) and China Power Investment Corporation (
CNPC
), each holding a 45 percent stake, with the Dalian Municipal Construction Investment Co holding the remaining 10 Percent. The project comprises six 1,000-
MW
units in two phases. Photo: (…)
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26 February 2022
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Russian Nuclear Industry Starts Nuclear Reactor Construction in China—Anyways
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, 26 February 2022 Construction of the Tianwan-8 reactor, a Russian
VVER
-1200 design, began 25 February 2022 with the pouring of base mat concrete. Located in Lianyungang City on the Yellow Sea coast of Jiangsu province in eastern China, six reactors are currently operating at the site, and according to Russian state nuclear company, Rosatom, Tianwan units 7 and 8, now both under construction, are scheduled to “be commissioned in 2026-2027.” The Tianwan plant is owned and operated by (…)
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15 February 2022
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– Nuclear Power 2021
Highest Number of Reactor Closures in a Decade
2021 in nuclear numbers—Six reactor startups, ten less than planned at the beginning of the year. Eight closures plus two closure announcements. Ten construction starts. Three reactors in Long-Term Outage (
LTO
) restarted, two closed. As of 1 January 2022, 412 reactors in operation, 25 in
LTO
, and 55 under construction. The Year 2021 saw the largest number of nuclear reactor closures in a decade, since 2011, when the Fukushima disaster began. Three of the six remaining units were closed (…)
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27 January 2022
Forbes (U.S.)
Current Climate: Solar Roofs’ Mainstream Route, Electric Batteries’ Recycling Imperative, And A Chat About Nuclear Energy
Climate Talks: Sofia Lotto Persio interviews Mycle Schneider. Abstract of “Current Climate”, weekly sustainability news published by Forbes. by Sofia Lotto Persio Published 8 January 2022 Hello and welcome to the first Current Climate issue of 2022. [...] In Climate Talks, I spoke to Mycle Schneider, lead author of the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report, about whether nuclear power is truly a sustainable energy source. [...] Climate Talks The International Atomic (…)
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10 January 2022
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Fuqing-6 Hualong One Reactor Connected to the Grid in China
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, 10 January 2022 The Fuqing-6 reactor located in Fujian province in south east China was connected to the grid on 1 January 2022 according to plant owner China National Nuclear Corporation (
CNNC
). Construction began on the
HPR1000
reactor, also known as Hualong One design, on 22 December 2015. The design is derived mainly from the 900 MWe reactors that China imported from France in the 1980s (Daya Bay) and 1990s (Ling Ao). The first
HPR1000
, Fuqing-5, was connected to the grid on 27 (…)
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