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SINGAPORE - China recently added two nuclear rectors totalling 1,500 megawatts along its east coast, boosting its nuclear power generation capacity to 3,600 megawatts, Chinese industry officials said.
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A 600 megawatt (MW) reactor was put into operation in April in the city of Haiyan in the eastern province of Zhejiang, and another 900 megawatt plant was started in early July in Ling Ao in the southern province of Guangdong. The 600 MW rector was built adjacent to China's first commercial nuclear power plant of 300 MW, completed in 1991, and better known as the Qinshan Power Corp. Qishan is a subsidiary of the Beijing-based China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), the powerful conglomerate responsible for the country's civilian and military nuclear activities. Officials said Qishan supplies electricity to the power grid of the booming east China region. The Ling Ao reactor is located next to the existing Daya Bay plant in Guangdong province, which has been operating two 900 MW reactors since 1994. Together they send electricity to the south China regional power grid. Guangdong Nuclear Power Group, 40 percent owned by CNNC, operates the reactors in Daya Bay and Ling Ao. Officials said by 2005, China will be running 8700 MW nuclear power capacity when new plants are brought into operation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In terms of generation capacity, nuclear power makes up only one percent of China's total 315 gigawatts. The percentage is expected to rise to close to three percent in 2005, officials said. Currently, thermal power accounts for some 76 percent and hydro 23 percent, industry sources have said.
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REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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