Updated on Aug 12, 2008 – SCMP
National Nuclear targets 2014 light-up date for Hainan plant
China National Nuclear Corp, the country’s biggest operator of nuclear power plants, will start construction of a 1,300-megawatt station in Hainan province by the end of next year. The plant in Changjiang county will start commercial operations at the end of 2014, China National Nuclear said in a statement posted on the website of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. It gave no further details.
China National Nuclear last month said it had won initial approval from the central government to build the plant. The mainland is turning to less-polluting options to coal which generate almost 80 per cent of the nation’s electricity. Bloomberg