1 week ago - In July 2019, China National Nuclear Corporation announced it would start building a demonstration ACP100 small modular reactor (SMR) on the north-west side of the existing Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant by the end of the year. Design of the ACP100 started in 2010 and it was the first SMR project ...

It has 38 nuclear power reactors in operation and 19 under construction. It has increased its number of operating reactors by more than ten times since 2000 and plans to bring five units into commercial operation this year alone. It is China, the fastest expanding nuclear power generator in ...

* The 13th Five-Year Plan formalized in March 2016 included the following nuclear projects and aims: Complete four AP1000 units at Sanmen and Haiyang. Build demonstration Hualong One reactors at Fuqing and Fangchenggang. Start building the demonstration CAP1400 reactor at Rongcheng (Shidaowan).

January 5, 2026 - First concrete has been poured for the nuclear islands of unit 1 of the Bailong nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and of unit 2 at the Lufeng plant in Guangdong province, marking the official start of construction of the two CAP1000 reactors. ;

May 6, 2024 - We estimate that the 23 reactors currently under construction in China will add about 23.7 GW to China’s existing nuclear power capacity over the next decade. The reactor unit designs are mostly PWR.

December 10, 2025 - The government's commitment was reinforced by the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025), which aims to build 150 new reactors over the next 15 years, reaching 200 GW of nuclear power by 2035—enough to power over a dozen cities the size of Beijing.

February 10, 2026 - China has reported construction milestones at three nuclear power projects, with the installation of key reactor and containment components at sites in Liaoning, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces.

April 21, 2022 - The construction of two new reactors at each of the Sanmen, Haiyang and Lufeng nuclear power plant sites in China has been approved by the country's State Council. The approvals are for Sanmen units 3 and 4, Haiyang 3 and 4 and units 5 and 6 ...

April 28, 2025 - China's State Council has approved the construction of 10 new nuclear generating units, according to a report from government-backed media The Paper late on Sunday, which estimated the total outlay at 200 billion yuan ($27.44 billion).

March 2, 2026 - From the world’s first in-reactor thorium breeding confirmation to a dual PWR-HTGR plant and commercial supercritical CO₂ generation, China is assembling a vertically integrated advanced nuclear ecosystem. The breadth of activity signals a coordinated push toward fuel independence and industrial deployment.

November 30, 2023 - But they are also turning to one of the most sustainable forms of non-renewable power. Over the past decade China has added 37 nuclear reactors, for a total of 55, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN body.

August 1, 2023 - China's State Council has approved ... units: units 5 and 6 of the Ningde plant in Fujian Province; units 1 and 2 of the Shidaowan plant in Shandong Province; and units 1 and 2 of the Xudabao plant in Liaoning Province....

June 17, 2025 - The country is set to build dozens of new reactors to raise its installed capacity to 200 gigawatts – more than double the US’ current capacity – by the end of the next decade, the Chinese industry body said in the paper released on Monday.

April 28, 2025 - China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said it had received approval for Phase III (units 5 and 6) at its Sanmen nuclear power plant in Zhejiang province. It plans to build two Hualong One reactors, each with a rated power of 1215 MWe.

November 19, 2025 - China General Nuclear Power Group ... generate 50 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. Once completed, the Zhaoyuan Nuclear Power Plant will produce enough power to meet the household needs of approximately 5 million ...

May 16, 2024 - It was reported in November 2021 that China planned to build 150 new reactors at a cost of $440bn (2.8trn yuan), which is more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years.

December 30, 2025 - China has announced that first concrete has been poured, marking the official start of construction for new commercial nuclear power plants at Guangxi Bailong and Lufeng, both in the south of the country.

December 3, 2025 - China is quickly becoming the global ... dominance of solar panels and electric vehicles is well known, China is also building nuclear plants at an extraordinary pace....

August 31, 2023 - Cranes stand at the construction site of the second phase of Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant, invested by state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and China Huaneng Group, on June 28, 2023 in Changjiang Li Autonomous County, Hainan ...

November 2, 2021 - The world’s biggest emitter, China’s planning at least 150 new reactors in the next 15 years, more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35. The effort could cost as much as $440 billion; as early as the middle of this decade, ...