Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant
# Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant

The Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant (秦山核电站) is a multi-unit nuclear power plant in Qinshan Town, Haiyan County, in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China.

## Development

The construction of the units involved three separate phases.

### Phase I

    Involved construction of the small-scale (≈300 MW) Unit-1 only, but was the first domestically designed and constructed nuclear power plant in the nation (95 percent of components came from domestic manufactures).

### Phase II

    The next set of reactors were mid-scale plants (≈600 MW) but still of Chinese design (CNP-600). The steam generators were made by Babcock & Wilcox of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.

### Phase III

    Involved construction of two 728 MW (gross) CANDU-6 series of the CANDU reactor design supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. This was reported to be the largest business venture between Canada and China to that time. In 2001, it was visited by the Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; both units were online by 2003.

Although Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant is technically a separate entity from Qinshan, the World Nuclear Association considers it to essentially be an extension of the Qinshan plant due to their proximity and the fact that the original two reactors built at Fangjiashan were initially intended to be built at Qinshan phase IV (which is no longer planned).

## Reactor data

Reactors :

| Unit | Type | Model | Net power | Gross power | Thermal power | Start construction | First criticality | Grid connection | Commercial operation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Phase I |||||||||||
| Qinshan I | PWR | CNP-300 | 308 MW | 330 MW | 966 $MW_t$ | March 20, 1985 | October 31, 1991 | December 15, 1991 | April 1, 1994 |
| Phase II |||||||||||
| Qinshan II-1 | PWR | CNP-600 | 610 MW | 650 MW | 1930 $MW_t$ | June 2, 1996 | November 15, 2001 | February 6, 2002 | April 15, 2002 |
| Qinshan II-2 | PWR | CNP-600 | 610 MW | 650 MW | 1930 $MW_t$ | April 1, 1997 | February 25, 2004 | March 11, 2004 | May 3, 2004 |
| Qinshan II-3 | PWR | CNP-600 | 619 MW | 660 MW | 1930 $MW_t$ | April 28, 2006 | July 13, 2010 | August 1, 2010 | October 5, 2010 |
| Qinshan II-4 | PWR | CNP-600 | 619 MW | 660 MW | 1930 $MW_t$ | January 28, 2007 | November 17, 2011 | November 25, 2011 | December 30, 2011 |
| Phase III |||||||||||
| Qinshan III-1 | PHWR | CANDU 6 | 677 MW | 728 MW | 2064 $MW_t$ | June 8, 1998 | September 21, 2002 | November 19, 2002 | December 31, 2002 |
| Qinshan III-2 | PHWR | CANDU 6 | 677 MW | 728 MW | 2064 $MW_t$ | September 25, 1998 | January 18, 2003 | June 12, 2003 | July 24, 2003 |

In 2019 Qinshan 1 was upgraded and uprated to 350 MWe (net) from its original output power of 300 MWe.

