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World's 1st fourth-gen nuclear plant to make 35 billion kWh yearly
China is expanding the world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, the Shidaowan HTGR, in Shandong Province.
Zhang Aijun, vice president of the HTGR Nuclear Power Company, Ltd, told China Media Group (CMG) that the first phase of the expansion project is to install another domestically developed third-generation pressurized water reactor, Hualong One, which will operate with the gas-cooled one. “The first phase of the expansion project includes two units of Hualong One, our domestically developed third-generation nuclear reactors with independent intellectual property rights, each with a capacity of 1.2 million kilowatts,” Zhang said. In January, Zhang Yijin, a chief operator at the power plant, said that one of the major features of the fourth-generation reactors is the nuclear fuel made into a small sphere shaped like a tennis ball.
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