Energy Magazine November 2025 | Page 38

YANGJIANG NUCLEAR POWER STATION
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YANGJIANG NUCLEAR POWER STATION

LOCATION: GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA
COMPANY: CHINA GENERAL NUCLEAR POWER GROUP
CEO: GAO LIGANG CAPACITY: 6 GW
Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station began full commercial operation in July 2019 and has a nameplate capacity of 6 GW.
Ground was broken for the plant in 2008. Yangjiang 5 is the first construction of an ACPR-1000 reactor and was the first Chinese reactor to have a domestically developed digital control system.
The plant supplies its electricity to the local power grid company Guangdong Power Grid.
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