Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant

Daya Nuclear Power Plant
Daya Bay Nuclear power plant
Official name
CountryPeople's Republic of China
LocationLonggang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong
Coordinates22°35′50″N 114°32′40″E / 22.59722°N 114.54444°E / 22.59722; 114.54444
StatusOperational
Construction began
  • Unit 1: August 7, 1987 (1987-08-07)
  • Unit 2: April 7, 1988 (1988-04-07)
Commission date
  • Unit 1: August 31, 1993 (1993-08-31)
  • Unit 2: February 7, 1994 (1994-02-07)
Owner
Guangdong Nuclear Investment Company(75%)
CLP Group(25%)
OperatorsDaya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management Co, Ltd.
Nuclear power station
Reactors2
Reactor typePWR
Reactor supplierFramatome
Cooling sourceSeawater (Daya Bay, South China Sea)
Thermal capacity2 × 2905 MWt
Total electricity generated397.95 TWh (1,432.6 PJ) (As of the end of 2021)
Power generation
Units operational2 × 944 MWe
Make and modelM310
Nameplate capacity1,888 MWe
Capacity factor
  • 2021:
  • Unit 1: 89.8%
  • Unit 2: 100.6%
  • Lifetime: (Up to 2021)
  • Unit 1: 86.8%
  • Unit 2: 86.8%
Annual net output15,742.98 GWh (56,674.7 TJ) (2021)
External links
WebsiteGuangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station
CommonsRelated media on Commons
Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant
Simplified Chinese大亚湾核电站
Traditional Chinese大亞灣核電站
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDàyàwān Hédiànzhàn
Yue: Cantonese
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Daya Nuclear Power Plant (Chinese: 大亚湾核电站; pinyin: Dàyàwān Hédiànzhàn) is a nuclear power plant located in Daya Bay in Longgang District, along the eastern extremity of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China; and to the north east of Hong Kong. Daya Bay has two 944 MWe PWR nuclear reactors based on the Framatome ANP French 900 MWe three cooling loop design (M310), were both commissioned in 1993 and started commercial operation in 1993 and 1994 respectively.