Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant

Nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. As in a conventional thermal power station the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to a generator which produces electricity.Nuclear power plants are usually...

 in the Zhejiang province, China

China

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, adjacent to the existing Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant

Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant

The Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant is a multi-unit nuclear plant under construction in Qinshan Town, Haiyan County, Zhejiang, the People's Republic of China. When completed, it may hold the record for the most nuclear reactors on one site; however, since the majority of the units are mid-size, it may...

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Two 1,080 megawatt (MWe) CPR-1000

CPR-1000

The CPR-1000 is a Generation II+ pressurized water reactor, based on the French 900 MWe three cooling loop design imported in the 1990s, improved to have a net power output of 1,000 MWe and a 60 year design life....

 pressurized water reactor

Pressurized water reactor

Pressurized water reactors constitute a large majority of all western nuclear power plants and are one of three types of light water reactor , the other types being boiling water reactors and supercritical water reactors...

s (PWRs) are under construction, at a total cost of 26 billion yuan (US$3.8 billion).

'First concrete' for the first unit at the Fangjiashan plant was poured on 26 December 2008.
Construction of the second unit followed in July 2009.
The reactors are scheduled to start commercial operation in December 2013 and October 2014, respectively.