China has built three nuclear power stations and its installed
nuclear power capacity will rise to 8.7 million kilowatts in three
years, says a senior Chinese nuclear power official.
When that goal is reached, nuclear power would account for about
three percent of China's power output, Li Dingfan, general manager
of the China Nuclear Industry Group Co., said at the ongoing
Pacific nuclear power conference in south China's Shenzhen
Municipality.
Li
said China had made rapid progress in the construction of nuclear
power stations in the last 20 years. There were now three nuclear
power bases in China, at Qinshan in east China's Zhejiang Province,
Daya Bay in south China's Guangdong Province and Tianwanin east
China's Jiangsu Province.
He
said the power stations in Qinshan and Daya Bay had already started
operating. The next three years would see five more nuclear power
generating units come into use.
According to Li, China will continue to develop nuclear power
during its 10th Five-Year Plan period (2001-2005). He said China
had the capability to design one-million-kw class nuclear power
stations and manufacture large-scale nuclear power equipment.
(Xinhua News Agency October 24, 2002)
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