The Fuqing 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 Fuqing

Fuqing

Fuqing is a county-level city of Fuzhou in Fujian, China.It is located in the eastern part of the province, borders the East China Sea, just southeast of Fuzhou and 45 kilometers from Changle International Airport of Fuzhou. Fuqing city has geographical advantage, for its location between...

, Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

 Province

Province (China)

A province, in the context of Chinese government, is a translation of sheng formally provincial level divisions, which is an administrative division. Provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions, and the special administrative regions, make up the four types of province of administrative division...

, PRC

People's Republic of China

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The plant is on the coast at the foot of Qiwei Mountain, near Qianxue Village, Sanshan Town.
The station will have six 1,000 megawatt (MW) 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).
The CPR-1000 is an advanced PWR design developed by China from the Areva

Areva

AREVA is a French public multinational industrial conglomerate headquartered in the Tour Areva in Courbevoie, Paris. AREVA is mainly known for nuclear power; it also has interests in other energy projects. It was created on 3 September 2001, by the merger of Framatome , Cogema and...

-designed PWRs at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant.

The plant will be jointly constructed and operated by China National Nuclear Corporation

China National Nuclear Corporation

The China National Nuclear Corporation was established on 16 September 1988 by a Government of China decree. CNNC's president and vice-president are appointed by the Premier of the State Council. However the CNNC is a self-supporting economic corporation, not a government administrative body. It...

 (51%), China Huadian Corp. (39%) and the Fujian Investment & Development Co Ltd. (10%).
The cost of the plant will be about 100 billion yuan (US$14.7 billion).

Construction of the first unit began on 21 November 2008, and is expected to take 5 years.
Vice Premier Li Keqiang

Li Keqiang

Li Keqiang is the First-ranking Vice-Premier and deputy Party secretary of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the seventh ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the People's Republic of China's de facto highest decision-making body...

attended the inauguration ceremony.
First concrete for Unit 2 was poured on 17 June 2009 — three months ahead of schedule.
First concrete for Unit 3 was poured on 31 December 2010.
Preliminary work for the other three units is underway.

Unit	Type	Construction start	Operation start	Notes
Phase I
Fuqing 1	CPR-1000	21 November 2008	October 2013
Fuqing 2	CPR-1000	17 June 2009	August 2014
Phase II
Fuqing 3	CPR-1000	31 December 2010	July 2015
Fuqing 4	CPR-1000	2011	May 2016
Fuqing 5	CPR-1000
Fuqing 6	CPR-1000