The Yeonggwang Nuclear Power Plant is a large nuclear power station in the Jeollanam-do

Jeollanam-do

Jeollanam-do is a province in the southwest of South Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the southern half of the former Jeolla province, remained a province of Korea until the country's division in 1945, then became part of South Korea...

 province of South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

. The facility runs at an installed capacity of . The power station is currently ranked as the fifth largest nuclear power station in the world.

There is one unit (or reactor), one unit, one unit, one unit, one unit, and one unit. All these units are of the 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...

(PWR) reactor type. Unit-1 and Unit-2 were commissioned in 1986, Unit-3 in 1994, Unit-4 in 1995, Unit-5 in 2001, and Unit-6 in 2002.